107 new stories, songs, and comics based on the titles on a fake bookshelf. As a 270-page book and two hourlong CDs, this is clearly just the thing for anyone.
Book: Daria Tessler, Sheila Heti, Tom Lombardi, Karen Russell, Jennifer L. Knox, Paul La Farge, Alexander MacBride, Benjamin Law, Christopher Currie, Alex Holden, Joanna Howard, Ben Greenman, Hannah Pittard, Eric Hanson, Aaron Gwyn, Adam Thirlwell, Sara Varon, Beena Kamlani, Joe Meno, Josephine Rowe, Ryan Boudinot, John McNally, Robert Olen Butler, Jeffrey Brown, Christian TeBordo, Adam Levin, Anna Krien, W. Andrew Ewell, Sarah Manguso, Matthew Thurber, Sarah Moor, Kevin Moffett, Yannick Murphy, Clancy Martin & Deb Olin Unferth, Adam Golaski, Daniel Handler & Lisa Brown, Carey Mercer & Sydney Vermont, Jordan Himelfarb & Joel Taylor, Sean Casey, Manuel Gonzales, John Cotter, Jim Shepard, Chris Eaton, Caren Beilin, John Hankiewicz, Sam Lipsyte, James P. Othmer, Terry Wright, Brendan Connell, Chris Flynn, Jess Walter, Heidi Julavits, Thomas Benjamin Guerney, Aaron Renier, Brian Evenson, Spencer Krug, Robert Scrivini, Beth Murphy, Samantha Hunt, Arthur Bradford, Tao Lin, Chris Bachelder, Salvador Plascencia, Lee Henderson, Jonathan Meiburg, Rick Moody, and Sean Michaels.
CD1
THE CAY • Cachalot
HAUNTED HOUSE • Sierra Trail
FEWN • Buffalo Crossing
THE PANDA BAND • Where the River Rises
ALEKS AND THE RAMPS • Walking in the Garden
SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN • The House of Memory
NO KIDS • Prisoner of Desire
HANNAH MARCUS • The Princess Royal
I’M NOT JIM • Stalking Horse
TELEFAUNA • Gold Fury
WINDMILL • Rollercoaster
THE LUCKSMITHS • The World of Professional Golf 1994
NEIL GAIMAN • Bloody Sunrise
GET HIM EAT HIM • Catalysts
ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET • The Duke’s Dilemma
BUTTERFLY TRANSFORMATION SERVICE • The Long Journey
PIKELET • Sweeter Music
DAN DEACON • The Night of the Scorpion
ERIK HECHT • The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
THEE MORE SHALLOWS • Desert Sinner
CD2
GOBLIN COCK • A Tracing of Angels
BACHELORETTE • Mindwarp
SLEEPING STATES • Root Canal
THE HIMALAYAN BEAR • Voice of the Turtle
THE WALKING HELLOS • The Unloved
ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL • Honeymoon with Murder
ARMS • Gunsmoke Legend
THE WHISKERS • Marsh Blood
SPIRAL STAIRS • The Cheetah Chase
FAUX PAS • Road to Nowhere
MICHAEL HEARST • Montana Crisis
CLAUDIA GONSON • Cottage Gardening
SLY HATS • Rock Gardens
CAROLYN MARK AND HER ENABLERS • Mark of the Hangman
FRIGHTENED RABBIT • Last Tango in Brooklyn
EZRA FURMAN AND THE HARPOONS • Portrait of Maud
HOME BLITZ • The Forbidden Tower
ADAM AND THE AMETHYSTS • Deadly Passage
THE WRENS • In Turkish Waters
THE CAPSTAN SHAFTS • Murder at the Royal Shakespeare
Most of this issue was commissioned, so we held a competition for stories, songs, and comics based on all the titles in the fake bookshelf. Lewis Gallagher, Pete Garrow, and Kirk Marshall judged it. You can read the winning story, Barbed Wire Payoff by Sarah Moor, in the issue. Our runners-up were Hurlock’s Law by Janika Dobbie, Who Saw Him Die? by Bethan Mure, and The World of Professional Golf 1994 by Thomas Perry.
