Product Description: An elderly shut-in delivers a series of pet-sitting instructions to a young couple who’ve come to watch over his many, many cats. A story (or series of stories) about the ways that methodical, abstract systems interface with messy, personal obsessions, Fancy is a kissing cousin to the work of both the late Henry James and the early Thomas Bernhard: an object lesson in how our need to make sense of the world winds up devouring it whole...read more

Product Description: To celebrate the publication of a revised translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, "Life: A User's Manual," as well as other debut Perec translations due in 2009, Dalkey Archive is reissuing one of the most popular issues of the "Review of Contemporary Fiction" in a newly expanded edition...read more

Product Description: Fiction. When violence erupts on the streets of Paris in May 1968, a hapless international film crew finds itself stranded during the shooting of a preposterous low-budget blue movie about notorious 18th century erotic poet John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester...read more