Pets - Softcover

Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine. He is the author of two poetry books, and his work has appeared in Tin House, The Iowa Review, New World Writing, and more, as well as has been anthologized in four different countries. He is from Cleveland, OH. Among the authors in this collection, some have won Guggenheim fellowships, the PEN/Malamud award, the Pulitzer prize, the O Henry prize, and one has been a finalist for the National Book Award.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927), born in Tokyo, Japan, was the author of more than 350 works of fiction and nonfiction, including Rashōmon, The Spider’s Thread, Hell Screen, Kappa, and In a Grove.

Ann Beattie’s eleven short story collections (most recently The Accomplished Guest) are filled with dogs.

Raegan Bird is an artist currently living and working in Salem, Massachusetts. This is her first published story.

Blake Butler is the author of five book-length works of fiction, including 300,000,000 (Harper Perennial), Sky Saw (Tyrant Books), There is No Year (Harper Perennial), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books), and Ever (Calamari Press), as well as the nonfictional Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia (Harper Perennial). His fourth novel, Alice Knott, will be published by Riverhead in 2019. He lives in Atlanta.

“Every era has its wise aphorist. Sarah Manguso is ours and joins Marcus Aurelius, Thomas à Kempis, Montaigne.” ―Edmund White

“There’s no one who writes quite like [Michael W. Clune].” ―The New Republic

“I felt I was reading a writer who would tell harder truths than many other writers, and she turns this nerve against herself to good effect.” ―Amy Hempel

“Hodson’s essays have such a sexy drama to them―and ultimately it’s the romance of just getting through life, the passion that comes from being a wholly alert woman and living to tell about it.” ―Miranda July

“Sometimes he sounds like a thriller writer, sometimes an art critic, sometimes a poet.” ―Christian Lorentzen, Vulture

“Beattie’s complexities make us more alert to the layered complexities of our own lives, and the lives of others.” ―Los Angeles Times

“[With] her absolute ear and her masterly deadpan humor, the results are dazzling. Beattie is a natural writer. Her prose never preens or tires or obstructs.” ―The New Yorker

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“Wild and chiseled, both.” ―Maggie Nelson

“McClanahan’s prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. He writes in an elliptical fever dream so contagious that slowing down is not an option. It would be like putting a doorstop in front of a speeding train.”―The New York Times