David R. Slavitt translates the missing cantos & stanzas of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso -- wild, rich stories of love and valor that have influenced writers since the early Renaissance, from Spenser and Shakespeare to Borges and Calvino. Compiled as a companion to the Harvard University Press edition of -- also translated by Slavitt -- Lacunae picks up where the other leaves off, revealing the many adventures and quests the other left out. Enchanted knights, transgendered princesses, and Ariosto's essential and timeless wit . . . Lacunae is the completion of a translation of a major work of Renaissance literature, in a lively and thoroughly engaging performance.

Lacunae: The Missing Cantos & Stanzas of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

Literature & Fiction

ARIOSTO, Ludovico

Poetry

Outpost19

Meet Jim Haskin. He's forty years old. He's worth around thirty-five million. He runs a successful progressive San Francisco ad firm. His next big thing? A Death Row inmate, pay-per-view tele-vision, and America's major corporations. It will be his greatest achievement yet... AMERICAN WEATHER is a remorselessly funny novel by a writer of breathtaking talent.

American Weather

McLeod, Charles

Contemporary

Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES is a mesmerizing study of America's margins. From back-country radicals to California rent boys to a man who puts his life up on eBay, this debut collection is a coast-to-coast assemblage of the American non-mainstream. A virtuoso storyteller, McLeod employs a dazzling range of styles in these unflinching portraits of contemporary life.

National Treasures

Literary

A City on a Hill defies common categories. A series of short scorching works that plunge through history, Stanley Jenkins' debut collection brings a wildly inventive style to America's darkest mythologies.

A City on a Hill

Jenkins, Stanley

Using Gertrude Stein's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS as a template, Filip Noterdaeme's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL J. ISENGART tells the story of two eccentric expatriates who find love in New York City and carve out a delirious, dadaesque life on the margins of the contemporary art world. "A lovely romp with the absurd, beguilingly ironic about art and social mores, and quietly sincere about love... It's hard to imagine anything more charming." - Andrew Solomon

The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart

Biographies & Memoirs

Noterdaeme, Filip

Arts & Literature

Eleven stories by the author of the critically-acclaimed HOW ANIMALS MATE. Daniel Mueller reveals the distance between our everyday masks and the selves we strain to recognize in them. A boy whose parents live apart decides to model himself after a neighborhood sociopath. A corporate systems analyst attempts to reconcile a homoerotic childhood with his conventional nuclear family. A divorcee dating a rape survivor must admit that what he loves most about her would, in his daughter, completely destroy him. Funny and grim, stylish and provocative, these stories find in disjunction and misalignment unparalleled tension and exquisite grace.

Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey

Mueller, Daniel

A Vacaville rodeo. Hollywood quid pro quo. A verbal altercation at a Buddhist retreat. Nearly starving to death in the farmlands of Clovis. The Santa Anas blowing fire through the SoCal foothills. The lights of oil rigs glowing brightly in the Santa Barbara Channel. Farm worker strikes and Prop 21. Smelting the Lost Coast. Hiking the Mojave. Hells Angels, divorce law and Chez Panisse. The mountains and the beaches. The cities and the desert. In these twenty short stories and sixteen essays, established and emerging writers alike speak to California's myriad joys and juxtapositions.

California Prose Directory: New Writing from The Golden State

United States

Edited by Sarah LaBrie, our third annual anthology presents short fiction and non-fiction by 24 acclaimed authors: Kyle Boelte, John Brantingham, Carina Chocano, Meghan Daum, Nathan Deuel, Ann Friedman, Vanessa Hua, Jay Caspian Kang, Adam Klein, Summer Block Kumar, Jillian Lauren, Lisa Locascio, Kevin Magruder, Lou Mathews, Rae Paris, Micah Perks, Zachary Pincus-Roth, Lillibet Snellings, Matthew Specktor, A.A. Srinivasan, Matt Sumell, Ronaldo Wilson, Melisa Yancy, and Yvonne Zima.

California Prose Directory 2016

"Understudies is an essential debut." - Laura van den Berg A high school teacher begins to question the course of his life after a famous young actress moves into town. In the starlet's shadow, his girlfriend, his mother, his neighbor, and his students take on strange new dimensions. Told in a series of snapshots, Understudies presents a sharp, funny, and heartbreaking study of beauty, celebrity, and everyday needs.

Understudies (Short-ish: novellas + essays)

Mangla, Ravi

Eighteen brief stories inspired by television commercials produced by America's favorite brands. What if actual human beings lived in the worlds created by brand marketers? A Taco Bell test kitchen is pushed to its limits. A new Lexus for Christmas takes a family over the edge. An exceptional outing with extremely beautiful people becomes transcendent when onion cheeseburgers get passed around. Budweiser, Cialis, Toyota and KFC are a few of the other branded worlds explored here, where everyday lives are shaped by human needs as much as marketing strategy.

Commercial Fiction

Housley, Dave

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