Jim Knipfel

• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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The author of Slackjaw chronicles six months spent by the author in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward following another failed suicide attempt, during which he observes the failings of modern mental health practices and shares the insights of fe...

• Mar-2003
• / General Fiction
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Meet Roscoe Baragon�"crack reporter at a major (well, maybe not that major) metropolitan newspaper. Baragon covers what is affectionately called the Kook Beat�"where the loonies call and tell him in meticulously deranged detail what it’s like to ...

• Oct-2007
• / Thriller
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ATM thief hits the road with 350 pounds of $20 bills. Ned “Noogie” Krapczak grew up in rough circumstances in Jersey City, New Jersey.  Movies were his only escape, and he dreamed of becoming a filmmaker.  But by the time he hits 30, th...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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Wally Philco is a gentle, midlevel insurance industry operative living with his wife, Margie, in Brooklyn. In the years since those terrible events took place in Tupelo, Mississippi, though, the world -- and Brooklyn, too -- has become a very differe...

• Jun-2010
• / Literary
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From the irresistibly droll mind of Jim Knipfel comes These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales, a series of twisted fables that echo with pinpoint acuity. A masterful storyteller whose memoirs and novels have earned him wides...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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Monster Stalks NYC When a local drunk is mugged near the toxic Gowanus Canal by "a hulking, hairy beast who smells really bad," Hank Kalabander thinks nothing of blaming the assault on the legendary Bigfoot. His sardonic crime blotter for The Horn...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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A longtime Wisconsin sheriff faces his first-ever homicide: “[Fuses] murder and mortuary science in a novel of the humorously macabre” (Derek Davis, author of Gifts of a Dead Man).   In the nearly twenty years that Leonard Koznowski has been...