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  • The Grip of It

    A Novel

    by Jac Jemc ...
    Finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Dan Chaon's Best of 2017 pick in Publishers Weekly, one of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Best Books of 2017, a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017.Jac Jemc's The Grip of It is a chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Only Wife

    by Jac Jemc ...
    Ten years ago the narrator unlocked the door of a wrecked apartment, empty of any trace of his wife. As stunning as her disappearance is his response. He freezes on the facts of her, haunting his recollections. This is the story of a man unable to free himself enough from the idea of a woman to try to find her.Jac Jemc's work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Handsome, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Empty Theatre: A Novel

    or The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...

    by Jac Jemc ...
    A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • False Bingo

    Stories

    by Jac Jemc ...
    The mundane becomes sinister in this collection of twenty disquieting stories from the author of The Grip of It.In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces—some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not—work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life."Strange Loop" introduces us to an outcast who, attempting to escape an unnamed ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Different Bed Every Time

    by Jac Jemc ...
    A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catastrophe to arrive. Moments so brief and disturbing you can't afford to look away. Jac Jamc's affecting stories mine the territory between what is real ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Summer 2025 Guest-edited by Victor LaValle

    by Victor LaValle, Nadia Bulkin, S.A. Cosby, Carolyn Ferrell, Tristan Hughes, Jac Jemc, Zara Karschay, Barbara Lock, Rachel Mans McKenny, Thomas McMullan, Olajide Omojarabi, Joanna Pearson, Deesha Philyaw, Siavash Saadlou, Rho Weber Mack, Helen Phillips ...
    The Summer 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Summer 2025 issue, edited by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Grip of It

    by Jac Jemc ...
    Narrated by Amy McFadden, Michael David Axtell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. The move—prompted by James’ penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check—is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh.But this house, which sits between lake and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Empty Theatre

    by Jac Jemc ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    False Bingo

    Stories

    by Jac Jemc ...
    Narrated by Julie McKay ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours

    In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces (some supernatural, some of this earth, some real, and some not) work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life.In "Strange Loop," an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in "Delivery," a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    F*ckface

    And Other Stories

    by Leah Hampton ...
    Narrated by Sophie Amoss ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia.The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment.A young girl, desperate for a way out of her small town, finds support in an ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Wounded World

    W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

    by Chad L. Williams ...
    Narrated by Cary Hite ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 21 min

    The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois’s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I―and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writersWhen W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Bone White

    by Ronald Malfi ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims' graves, in remote Dread's Hand, Alaska.It's not even a town; more like the bad memory of a town. The same bit of wilderness where his twin brother went missing a year ago. As the bodies are exhumed, Paul travels to Alaska to get closure and put his grief to rest.But the mystery is only beginning. What Paul finds ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook