A minute-by-minute analysis of Richard Linklater's 1993 film, Dazed and Confused.Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the closing credits.This book uses a close study of Dazed and Confused to tell three interrelated stories of adolescent development: the filmma...

Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town. Originally published in the novella collection, Fondly, this new edition features a foreword by Brian Evenson."This is a book I first read at a formidable time, in a driftless, listless post-college haze. I've since thought about these characters, this family, consistently in the last ten plus years, recommending Gainesville t...

**Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceMarrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is perfect for viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance and Pluribus**Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its “original experiences,” has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popu...

Volume three, issue three of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal.  Cover by Grażyna Smalej. Fiction by Jonathan Callahan, Justin Hamm, Alex McElroy, Joe Sacksteder, Chelsea Laine Wells, Luke Wiget, D. Harlan Wilson, and Colin Winnette. Poetry by Emily Grace Bernard, Ace Boggess, J. Scott Bugher, Dalton Day, Jason Hardung, Neal Kitterlin, Laura McCullough, Britt Melewski, Zach Mueller, Nina Puro, Jeff Tigchelaar, Marc Vincenz, Charles Harper Webb, and Gabriel Wels...

Volume four, issue one of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal. Cover by Michael McConnell. Fiction by Robert Kloss, Sara Lippmann, Joe Lucido, Ted Pelton, Ryan Ries, Adrian Van Young, Chelsea Laine Wells, and Colin Winnette. Poetry by Taryn Andrews, Ace Boggess, Thea Brown, Flower Conroy, Jim Daniels, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Knar Gavin, Montreux Rotholtz, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Ray Shea, Phillip Gregory Spotswood, Bridget Talone, and Timothy Wojcik. Creative nonfiction by...

**Slate: Underrated Books of the Year Flavorwire: Best Independent Press Books of 2015LitReactor: Best Books of 2015**Brooke and Sugar are contract killers without a contract. Bird is the 13-year-old who appears in their camp one night, with no memory and palms as smooth as stones. Driven from town after a bathhouse brawl, it's only a matter of time before the sheriffs will find them. Before the cannibals and stampedes and marauders will find them. Before the past will clam...

**Flavorwire: One Of the Best Independent Press Books of 2015Washington Independent Review of Books: 13 Best Novels of 2015Winner of Les Figues Press' NOS Book ContestSmall Press Distribution: Best of the Press**A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy-after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident-is the story of Coyote. There is a marriage and a...

Propulsive, clear-eyed, and surprisingly tender, WONDERKIN is PEN/Faulkner finalist Colin Winnette’s profound portrait of love in our unpredictable future.The world Charles Wright inhabits is our own . . . Almost. Repeated pandemics have thinned the population, and in their wake, humanoid machines known as models exist to create the illusion of a populated world. Originally built for service, these models have been integrated into the fabric of daily life, blur- ri...

A minute-by-minute analysis of Richard Linklater’s 1993 film, Dazed and Confused.Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the closing credits.This book uses a close study of Dazed and Confused to tell three interrelated stories of adolescent development: the filmma...

“The Job of the Wasp is a madcap mystery, a macabre coming-of-age story and an unearthly fantasy—but it feels like childhood, like the world, like life.” —Daniel Handler, author of We Are Pirates and All The Dirty PartsA new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the He...

"In his astonishing portrait of American violence, Haints Stay, Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect. But this isn't a chummy oater penned by the likes of Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. Winnette's frontier feels more Homeric. His knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species' base nature and worst instincts. While the novel flouts most of the conventions of the traditional horse opera, the rewards o...

An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation.A woman known only by the letter A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality show ...