In sparse, evocative prose, T Cooper tells the story of four splintered lives: Isak is a "gender freak" to the world at large. Taylor is so simultaneously perfect, yet useless, that she is paralyzed. Her mother Arlene is lonely and pill-popping, while Arl
A postmodern family saga by one of America's freshest literary voices Upon landing at Ellis Island in 1903, Esther and Hersh Lipshitz discover their son Reuven is missing. The child is never found and, decades later, Esther becomes convinced that the f
Explore the dark side—literally and figuratively—of evening time with short fiction by Jonathan Ames, Todd Pruzan, Rick Moody, Richard Rushfield, Elizabeth Ellen, Davy Rothbart, Jonathan Lethem, T. Cooper, Monica Drake, Aimee Bender, Jeff Johnson, Jam
When Drew met Audrey, friendship was easy. Then freshman Drew (the blonde cheerleader) became sophomore Oryon (the African American skater boy), and now nothing is like it used to be. Not at school, where he has no clue where he fits in. Or in the wider w
A few years ago, the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter telling them he "�wasn’t their daughter anymore.” And that was the �"good news.”Real Man Adventures is Cooper’s brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the parad
