Product Description: On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language...read more

Product Description: Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic—The Professor. While The Professor is reinvented with each new chapter (or film), what remains is DeShell’s inventive deconstruction and representation of modern cinema...read more

Argues that Poe's fiction remains outside the realm of critical analysis and that its nature resists interpretation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: S & M relentlessly questions the roles langu age and imagination play in the construction of sexual and e motional desire. The novel revolves around a lesbian relatio nship and a married university professor experimenting with sex. '

Product Description: 2nd FC2 anthology of 'postfeminist fiction' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jeffrey DeShell's In Heaven Everything is Fine is a first novel with a difference. While engaging a traditional subject-a young man's initiation into the difficulty of life amidst the hard realities of love, waste, and failure-it does so in a peculiarly contemporary way...read more