By: Joshua Glenn

Charles Burns’s BLACK HOLE

By: Mikita Brottman

They were irrationally overjoyed.

By: Joshua Glenn

From MARATHON MAN and OMAC to THE DISPOSSESSED

By: Kathryn Davis

One day toward the end of naptime Raymond slipped me a card.

By: Leah Hennessey

I was not available, but the entity to which I belonged was fictional.

By: Joshua Glenn

Iain M. Banks’s FEERSUM ENDJINN

By: Ben Greenman

He looked at the soup can and smiled. Then he signed it.

By: Joshua Glenn

Adventure terms from UMBRAGE to UPTAKE

By: Lydia Millet

It was Frank N. Furter who compelled me most.

By: Joshua Glenn

Jonathan Lethem’s GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC

By: Joshua Glenn

Adventure terms from TAILSPIN to TWEENER

By: Heather Kapplow

When I sifted the shards through my fingers, they felt good.

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE DEVIL’S CHILDREN to THE PRINCE IN WAITING

By: Debbie Millman

A small, white ceramic glass poodle with tufts of hot-pink fur.

By: Joshua Glenn

Jack Womack’s RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE