Absurdist

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, in a new modern-prose English translation, narrated straight through by Mike Vendetti. One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up as an insect. His first worry is that he is late for work. His family's first worry is what to tell the boarders. A hundred years later, the story still comes across like it was written this morning—the exhaustion, the dread of the phone ringing, the way a family talks about a sick person as if he weren't in the room. Kafka wrote it in 1915. He never lived to see it in English.

When Fitz, an overlooked foreign policy strategist, is summoned to the seventh floor, he is thrust into the derangement of late 2010s Washington, DC—national security incompetence, diplomatic intrigue, and institutional decadence. Absurdity follows in this darkly comic tale of frivolity...

Surprise, you’re dead! This hilarious and moving novel follows a couple forced into unthinkable challenges when, after dying in a plane crash, they find themselves in the lowest tier of heaven, filled with laughter and dread, fear and acceptance, and family bonds even death can't break...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...

Everyone is looking for something. Most of them are looking in the wrong place.ZAC is a yoga instructor, a self-appointed financial visionary, and—according to ZAC—a man on the verge of something significant.His wife Suzanne has heard this before.ZAC possesses a rare talent for drawing...