Books published by publisher Pamplemousse Publishing

A Northern transplant teenager chafes under the culture of her Southern U.S. high school and creates her own deity. A reanimated corpse joins a zombie crawl, and stuffed animals spill the beans on their darkest secrets. These award-winning, YA short stories offer curious insights into human nature with humor as well as an unsettling view toward its darker truths. In this collection of tales, you’ll find fortune-telling pancakes, second-tier superheroes, and the occasional possum.And it may make you think twice before opening the kitchen cabinets.

Self-professed Uber-geek Joely Malone blames herself for the car accident that nearly killed her and her sister Becca. But she has no one to blame for Becca’s dramatic conversion to Evangelical Christianity, except for Becca’s friend Katie. And, perhaps, God.In the following weeks, as Becca attempts to save Joely from eternal damnation, Joely comes to believe there are all kinds of hell, from her alienation from her sister, to their father's functional alcoholism, to her increasingly tenuous relationship with her musician boyfriend, Aaron.In a final, desperate attempt to reconnect with Becca, Joely decides to give Jesus a chance. She volunteers with Becca for the church’s Hell House event, an interactive drama designed to scare the Hell out of attendees and chase them straight into Heaven.But it’s only when Joely sees how far Becca has gone that she can face her greatest fear and take a step of faith into the unknown.

A Northern transplant teenager chafes under the culture of her Southern U.S. high school and creates her own deity. A reanimated corpse joins a zombie crawl, and stuffed animals spill the beans on their darkest secrets. These award-winning, YA short stories offer curious insights into human nature with humor as well as an unsettling view toward its darker truths. In this collection of tales, you’ll find fortune-telling pancakes, second-tier superheroes, and the occasional possum. And it may make you think twice before opening the kitchen cabinets.

Self-professed Uber-geek Joely Malone blames herself for the car accident that nearly kills her and her sister Becca. But she has no one to blame for Becca's dramatic conversion to Evangelical Christianity, except for Becca's friend Katie. And, perhaps, God. In the following weeks, as Becca attempts to save Joely from eternal damnation, Joely comes to believe there are all kinds of hell, from her alienation from her sister, to their father's functional alcoholism, to her increasingly tenuous relationship with her musician boyfriend, Aaron. In a final, desperate attempt to reconnect with Becca, Joely decides to give Jesus a chance. She volunteers with Becca for the church's Hell House event, an interactive drama designed to scare the Hell out of attendees and chase them straight into Heaven.But it's only when Joely sees how far Becca has gone that she can face her greatest fear and take a step of faith into the unknown.

Carrier documents the work of Oakland-based artist K.R.M. Mooney (born 1990), who creates sculptures and site-specific installations that are sometimes attached to existing fixtures, and whose (found) components suggest mechanical utility. Published for Mooney’s solo exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig’s Remise, Carrier includes texts, a poem and an artist interview.

Gender, nationalism and East Asian identity collide in the work of three Korean artists at the Venice BiennalePublished for the 58th Venice Biennale, History Has Failed Us, but No Matter explores the history of modernization in East Asia through the lens of gender and the agency of tradition, in the work of Siren Eun Young Jung, Jane Jin Kaisen and Hwayeon Nam.