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2021 HOUSE OF VLAD BOOKS

“Jon Lindsey is the new gleefully heartbreaking voice of California’s broken world. The darkening caper at the core of this novel of griefs and raucous self-discoveries unfolds in rioting prose that bursts into crazed poetry around every curve. Body High is the debut of a remarkably gifted writer.”—GARIELLE LUTZ, author of Worsted

BODY HIGH: A Novel (2021)

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“Joshua Dalton has such a brilliant voice—both despondent and hilarious, cruel and empathetic. These stories are filled with a kind of charming despair that rings so deeply, horribly true. This is a book that walks a fine line between pain and humor, and balances there perfectly.”—CATHY ULRICH, author of Ghosts of You

I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME: A Book (2021)

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“Shy’s poems are abruptly smart, a little violent, devious and ongoing, legendary, mythic, not prosey though a little like the voice of god if god decided to speak more collectively for a while. Shy’s poems to me are so so worth it. And they are crafty—also like god.”—EILEEN MYLES, author of Afterglow

HORROR VACUI: Poems and Other Writings (2021)

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2020 HOUSE OF VLAD BOOKS

“[Hot Young Stars] is innovatively introspective, a provocative jumble of memories, opinions, and intrusive thoughts. It reads like a barrage of dos and don’ts for the modern woman written on some Whataburger napkins during a drug-fueled fugue state, and yet [Sophie Jennis’s] voice is so confident that you’ll find yourself nodding along with every bewildering pronouncement on what anything is, or should be, or isn’t.” —ZAC SMITH, author of Everything is Totally Fine

HOT YOUNG STARS: Poems (2020)

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“If Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson co-wrote Waiting for Godot while snorting a few lines of Salvador Dali’s ashes, the result might look something like All Must Go. This collection is as sad and funny and strange and fucked up and loveable as its characters. Kevin Sterne is the real deal.”—JENNIFER WORTMAN, author of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.

ALL MUST GO: Stories (2020)

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“Through witty prose and wry humor, [Nathaniel Kennon Perkins] achieves a delicate balance of nihilism and hope, resulting in an ultimately moving perspective of one man struggling to find meaning in contemporary life.”—ISA MAZZEI, author of Camgirl

WALLOP: A Novel (2020)

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2019 HOUSE OF VLAD BOOKS

“[Justin Grimbol’s writing is] stranger and more arresting than ordinary emotional realism. His work is autobiographical, but it also veers into campy territory full of outsized psychic monsters and curious carnal romps.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books

I STILL LOVE YOU, PEGGY BUNDY: Poems (2019)

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“[Homeless] balances comedy, nihilism, and grief to tell a heartfelt story that amuses you with its absurdity and makes you laugh with [the] unexpected…”—Heavy Feather Review

PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK SO I CAN FEEL VALIDATED & (FINALLY) LOVE MYSELF: A Novella + Poems & Stories (2019)

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“Rebekah Morgan’s poems read like they were written by a couch-surfing mystic world traveler and self-annihilator, who returned to America to write what I can only describe as Country Realism.”—BRAD PHILLIPS, author of Essays and Fictions

HOTEL ALEXANDER: Poems (2019)

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BOOKS BY NOAH CICERO

“Cicero’s practical language couches a deep and searching spiritually; his poems address the minutiae of individual implications of imposing too much meaning onto any one instance.”—The Believer

NOAH CICERO'S WILD KINGDOM: An Autobiographical Poetry Adventure (2021)

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NATURE DOCUMENTARY: Poems (2018)

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BOOKS BY BRIAN ALAN ELLIS

“[Brian Alan Ellis] is the rock and roll king of sad. Most happy people only wish they could be as sardonic, humorous, and at once morose as Ellis. But they can’t.”—ELLE NASH, author of Nudes