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Hardcover book with a clothbound
spine; embossed avian artwork
on front and back covers

ISBN: 0-9719047-1-5  $18
Carton Quantity: 20

Issue 8 features fiction, essays, letters, and interviews that explore the sometimes-fuzzy boundary between fiction and fact. There are some stories in this issue that read like fact but are actually fiction. There are some essays that you will swear must be fiction but are, in fact, completely true. There's an interview with an artist whose paintings look like the work of a time centuries past and an interview with a person who holds fake press conferences. Each title page begins with a small illustration by Marcel Dzama.


Highlights Include:
Ben Marcus:

The Name Machine

Jonathan Ames:

The Nista Affair

Rick Moody:Inerrancy,
an interview with
Dewey L. Johnson, IV

Other Contributors:
John Hodgman, Aleksandar Hemon, Samantha Hunt, Michael Desommelier, Jeff Edmunds, Janet Bland, Rikki Duccornet, Eric P. Elshtain, Amy England, Carla Howl, Christine Hume, Catherine Kasper, Cynthia Kuhn, Christy Ann Rowe, David Ray Vance, C. Stelzmann, Richard Cohen, Joshuah Bearman, Paul LaFarge, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gabe Hudson, Jill Marquis, J. Robert Lennon, Jonathan Ames, Steve Tomasula, Amie Barrodale, Patrick Borelli, Karen Coughlin, Ben Dryer, Dan Goldstein, Mike Kerominski, Erik P. Kraft, Whitney Melton, Eugene Mitman Cedar Pruitt, Brian Spinks, Bill Wasik, John Williams, Kevin Shey, Sean Wilsey, Monique DeFour, Stephen Chapman, Robert Nedelkoff, J. Manuel Gonzales, Darin Strauss, Chris Colin, Curtis White, Michael Martone.