false 9228 3244304 3893111387 9783893111381 0 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3244304.Neuromancer 0.0 0 9226 3.73 53452 3068 9227 3.76 46 3 9228 3.66 443 98 1984 198076 0345493923 9780345493927 69 <![CDATA[It's Superman!: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172609123m/198076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172609123s/198076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198076.It_s_Superman_A_Novel 3.71 266 9228 3.66 443 98 2006 479646 0312421338 9780312421335 0 <![CDATA[Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107414m/479646.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107414s/479646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479646.Derby_Dugan_s_Depression_Funnies_A_Novel 4.13 23 Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, Al Bready ghostwrites a popular comic strip and struggles to get along with his boss and mentor, Walter Geebus. Set in 1930s New York, the novel is populated with characters who seem to have stepped straight out of a Damon Runyon story. While Mysterious Jones roams the city in a black mask, Marty Planet runs the Mafia, and an ambitious young cartoonist's assistant named Frank Sweeney rots in jail for lacing his boss's coffee with arsenic. He was trying to poison his way to a promotion, but it didn't work. Al Bready caught him, and although Walter Geebus survived the arsenic poisoning, he was never the same. This novel charts Geebus's decline and Bready's efforts to come to terms with the loss of the comic strip he clung to throughout his difficult childhood. Bready is a man of many routines who generally keeps to himself. He ghostwrites five or six comic strips and pumps out a pulp novel every month, but when he tries to write something personal, he feels stymied. He knows the story begins, "Derby's in a rowboat, it's night," but he can't fill in the rest. Bready yearns for the days of his youth, when reading the funnies aloud to his kid sister made everything seem all right. His story is not terribly moving, but it is quite funny, and he makes good company for a few hundred pages. This novel is a nostalgic, witty look back at the glory days of comic strips. --Jill Marquis ]]> 9228 3.66 443 98 1996 60100 014008679X 9780140086799 6 <![CDATA[Freaks' Amour]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208945911m/60100.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208945911s/60100.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60100.Freaks_Amour 3.91 22 9228 3.66 443 98 1979 228807 0312421346 9780312421342 1 <![CDATA[Funny Papers: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172890193m/228807.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172890193s/228807.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228807.Funny_Papers_A_Novel 3.68 19 9228 3.66 443 98 1985 1196015 0805057412 9780805057416 3 <![CDATA[Dugan Under Ground]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181792418m/1196015.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181792418s/1196015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1196015.Dugan_Under_Ground 3.35 20 9228 3.66 443 98 2001 479643 0743497791 9780743497794 2 <![CDATA[Walker of Worlds (Chronicles of the King's Tramp, book 1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107413m/479643.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107413s/479643.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479643.Walker_of_Worlds 3.36 11 Jack, a Walker, has learned a secret-one that could mean the end of all the worlds, not just his own. He has earned an enemy-and the Mage of Four, Mage of Luck, is a powerful enemy indeed. Jack must flee to our world, where he gathers a small group of unlikely, sometimes unwilling allies. In the ultimate confrontation, their efforts will determine the fate of the universes.

]]> 9228 3.66 443 98 1990 14772 0871355744 9780871355744 2 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Comic Book)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14772.Neuromancer 3.50 6 William Gibson's Neuromancer]]> 9228 3.66 443 98 1989 60131 0380751801 9780380751808 0 <![CDATA[U.S.S.A., Book 1]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170538391m/60131.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170538391s/60131.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60131.U_S_S_A_Book_1 3.33 6 9228 3.66 443 98 1987 60130 0140085491 9780140085495 1 <![CDATA[Sunburn Lake]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259474972m/60130.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259474972s/60130.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60130.Sunburn_Lake 4.00 3 9228 3.66 443 98 1988 210601 1416504559 9781416504559 0 <![CDATA[The End-of-Everything Man: Chronicles of the King's Tramp]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172722159m/210601.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172722159s/210601.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210601.The_End_of_Everything_Man_Chronicles_of_the_King_s_Tramp 2.75 4 9228 3.66 443 98 1990 479647 0553563408 9780553563405 0 <![CDATA[The Last Human (Chronicles of the King's Tramp, Book 3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479647.The_Last_Human 2.50 2 9228 3.66 443 98 1992 479641 0671004670 9780671004675 0 <![CDATA[Green Candles]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107412m/479641.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107412s/479641.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479641.Green_Candles 3.00 2 Graces only hope is private detective John Halting, who must figure out whether the threat is real or simply a product of his client's tormented imagination. But as he plunges into a nightmarish world where desire obscures reality, fear colors the truth, and nothing is what it seems, Graces waking nightmares threaten to become his own...

]]> 9228 3.66 443 98 93055 3.56 16 9 1997 407723 0802768245 9780802768247 0 <![CDATA[Joe Gosh (Millennium Book)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407723.Joe_Gosh 2.00 2 9228 3.66 443 98 1988 2869625 0689319673 9780689319679 0 <![CDATA[The Orphan's Tent (Chill Series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869625.The_Orphan_s_Tent 0.0 0 9228 3.66 443 98 1996 2990070 0060110872 9780060110871 0 <![CDATA[Jersey luck: A novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2990070.Jersey_luck_A_novel 0.0 0 9228 3.66 443 98 1980 7261891 0300118171 9780300118179 0 <![CDATA[Our Hero]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7261891-our-hero 0.0 0 9228 3.66 443 98 2010 7158136 1933354984 9781933354989 0 <![CDATA[Richmond Noir]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7158136-richmond-noir 0.0 0 “I would rather die in Richmond somehow, though God knows Richmond has little enough to offer.”—Henry Miller

Brand-new stories by: Tom Robbins, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers.

Andrew Blossom is the founding editor of Makeout Creek. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Brian Castleberry is a playwright, novelist, and music critic. He lives in Virginia with his wife and their two mangy dogs.

Tom De Haven is the author of seventeen books, including Freaks’ Amour, Sunburn Lake, It’s Superman!, and the Derby Dugan trilogy of novels.

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