Fall 2021 FC2 Release: Meaningful Work by JoAnna Novak
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut, JoAnna Novak examines the restless throb of desire amid the rote work of...Fall 2021 FC2 Release: By The Time You Read This by Yannick Murphy
WINNER OF FC2’s CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation The truths revealed...Fall 2021 FC2 Release: Messiahs by Marc Anthony Richardson
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice Messiahs centers on two nameless lovers, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew, yet was “exonerated” after...FC2 in Conversation With JoAnna Novak
Fiction Collective Two had the chance to talk with the author of one of this fall’s upcoming FC2 novels! Please find our conversation with JoAnna Novak about her book “Meaningful Work” below
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
The Book of Kane and Margaret
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
Masses & Motets
A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue
Drain Songs
A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal
Slater Orchard
An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization