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"OMFG, I nearly up and died from laughter when I read Flatscreen. This is the novel that every young turk will be reading on their way to a job they hate and are in fact too smart for." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love StoryIndie-lit star and Faster Times editor Adam Wilson delivers the gleefully absurd, effortlessly heartwarming story of one young man's struggle to shake off the listless, sexless, stoned mantle of suburban teenage life and become something better. Fortunately (maybe) for Eli, his apathetic quest finds a catalyzing agent in one Mr. Seymour J. Kahn, a paraplegic sex addict and two-bit silver screen star who initiates a mad decent into debasement and (of course) YouTube stardom--a transformation from which there will be no going back.

Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping to come out on top--but fearing they won't.In What's Important Is Feeling, Adam Wilson follows the through-line of contemporary coming-of-age from the ravings of teenage lust to the staggering loneliness of proto-adulthood. He navigates the tough terrain of American life with a delicate balance of comedy and compassion, lyricism and unsparing straightforwardness. Wilson's characters wander through a purgatory of yearning, hope, and grief. No one emerges unscathed.

Some days you wake up and just don't want have the energy to deal with your crappy office job, living with random people you meet on Craig's List, and the general ennui of millennial life. Other days you wake up on a Tuesday only to discover it's Wednesday due to the delicate uncertainty of the very natural of time.

Tactical Reload offers a road map for police professionals eager to succeed as America transitions from unrest to a new age of social enlightenment. Through honest personal stories and interviews with top police chiefs and thought leaders, Wilson thoroughly explores the present crisis of law enforcement and foreshadow a safer future. Adam Wilson speaks to the tremendous potential for all law enforcement officers including rookies and those coming up the ranks. His personal experiences illuminate the dangers and ironies of protecting community, while offering insights for improving the fight against crime. Tactical Reload explores a wide range of topics that shatter assumptions and suggest police may enjoy more respect now than ever before--if they continue to upgrade their mindset. Embrace "Embarrassment School" as an important rite of passage Respect people who commit crimes as a humane strategy for building trust Reject Millennial entitlement and impatience or jeopardize rank promotions Win department and community accolades by behaving well in or out of the uniform Discover why authentic cops don't need to prove they are tough, but they had better heed mental fitness advice from a retired Navy SEAL Learn how mandatory psychological tests for cops could remove the shame of vulnerability and decrease suicides Build character and improve advancement by blending new academic credentials with street smarts.

Tactical Reload offers a road map for police professionals eager to succeed as America transitions from unrest to a new age of social enlightenment. Through honest personal stories and interviews with top police chiefs and thought leaders, Wilson thoroughly explores the present crisis of law enforcement and foreshadow a safer future. Adam Wilson speaks to the tremendous potential for all law enforcement officers including rookies and those coming up the ranks. His personal experiences illuminate the dangers and ironies of protecting community, while offering insights for improving the fight against crime. Tactical Reload explores a wide range of topics that shatter assumptions and suggest police may enjoy more respect now than ever before--if they continue to upgrade their mindset. Embrace "Embarrassment School" as an important rite of passage Respect people who commit crimes as a humane strategy for building trust Reject Millennial entitlement and impatience or jeopardize rank promotions Win department and community accolades by behaving well in or out of the uniform Discover why authentic cops don't need to prove they are tough, but they had better heed mental fitness advice from a retired Navy SEAL Learn how mandatory psychological tests for cops could remove the shame of vulnerability and decrease suicides Build character and improve advancement by blending new academic credentials with street smarts. For every book purchased, a tree will be planted.

"A great story of a lost world. Having seen that world disappear in recent years, it was quite a treat to go on this journey. One of a time and place long gone, but not forgotten. Long before the Disneyfication of modern day Hollywood, it was a run down and left behind wasteland, dangerous, lively, unbounded and free. Where the disenfranchised outcasts, rejected children of the dysfunctional working class, came to find their place, their peace of mind. Roving the tattered shadows and crooked sidewalks of the boulevard, drinking, raising Hell for Hell's sake, looking for action, music, love, inebriation, acceptance, and family, while the rest of the world droned on in mind-numbing normalcy. Adam Wilson's first-hand account of life as a punk in the streets of Los Angeles, the gangs that stuck together for unity, solidarity, and what little they had to fight for, is a powerful and unsung testimonial, well worth reading. Learn what LA was really made of. Read his all telling tale, an honest and open account of a time and place, not likely to ever see the light of day again." Christiaan Angelo Pasquale

A razor-sharp darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a future that's nearly upon us. Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of their daughter's stillbirth. Michael, a Wall Street trader, has secretly lost the couple's life savings. Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple--and the country. An endlessly twisty novel of big ideas, Sensation Machines is a brilliantly observed human drama that grapples with greed, automation, universal basic income, revolutionary desires, and a broken justice system. Adam Wilson implicates not only the powerbrokers gaming the system and getting rich at the intersection of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley, and Capitol Hill, but all of us: each one of us playing our parts, however willingly or unwillingly, in the vast systems that define and control our lives.

A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a Post-Trump America in economic free fall Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: he lost the couple's life savings when a tanking economy caused a major market crash. And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to solve a national crisis of mass unemployment and reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple--and the country. Set in an economic dystopia that's just around the corner, Sensation Machines is both an endlessly twisty novel of big ideas, and a brilliantly observed human drama that grapples with greed, automation, universal basic income, wearable tech, revolutionary desires, and a broken justice system. Adam Wilson implicates not only the powerbrokers gaming the system and getting rich at the intersection of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley, and Capitol Hill, but all of us: each one of us playing our parts, however willingly or unwillingly, in the vast systems that define and control our lives.

Simple and elegant, there is nothing more perfect than a Helium atom.The same can't be said for the rest of the world. Jemma and Trak are stuck on opposite sides of a planet dead set on destroying itself. And while they've kept their relationship safe from the chaos around them, living in a virtual workd Trak created, even that can't stay forever. So perhaps it's worth giving up the life they have to try and find something as real and perfect as an atom of Helium.Assuming they can survive.

It is perhaps one of the first questions we learn to ask. After food, after comfort, we all ask for stories. We ask to learn who we are, and where we come from. We ask for stories to help shape the people we become.Stories help navigate the world around us. So we asked our Read Furiously creators to tell us a story. A story that invites us to become a part of their world, whatever that may be.Furious Lit is an all new ongoing anthology series that examines concepts and ideas close to any avid reader's heart. Each collection is a mix of prose, poetry, comics, and artwork loosely centered around a core theme.Come on in. Have we got a storyfor you.