Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act

A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane

This is Barry Yourgrau's debut book, the one that put him on the literary map, where he remains a landmark of imaginative prowess.In A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane, the author focuses his wide-awake subconscious mind on thematic standards--father, mother,

Wearing Dad's Head

Brief dreamlike sketches deal with a safari in the suburbs, a mother struck by lightning, a cow wearing lingerie, and a visit from dead parents.

The Sadness of Sex

Soon to be a film premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, The Sadness of Sex is an exhilarating new collection of fiction. The author explores the imagination's twilit terrain in which love, lust and loss reside.

Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales

"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFEA lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeli