New Satire Bundle

Two of our acclaimed and bestselling satirical novels together with 20% discount and free shipping!
Includes Matthew Binder’s Pure Cosmos Club and Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods.

In this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his companion dog, a disabled, quiche-obsessed terrier-mix named Blanche. Together they negotiate hilarious scenes of bad parties, bizarre couture, deranged friends, shady deals, unrequited love, sabotage, and inscrutable art. But there may be a way out for Paul when he meets James, a New Age guru and leader of a secretive cult: the Pure Cosmos Club. Yet, every time Paul believes he’s ready for the “Ultimate Level,” James raises the price of entry. Just how far will Paul go for love, for art, and to attain cosmic oneness? 

“Pure Cosmos Club is an inventive, antic picaresque with a satirical eye trained on spiritual and aesthetic hucksterism. Matthew Binder sets them up and knocks them down in this witty, energetic novel. Long live Blanche the dog!” Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

“Binder is our American Murakami. He takes tragic themes and makes them hilarious but also mind-blowing, cosmos erupting. Binder’s enormous delight in language and life is irresistible.” Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell

“In the world of Pure Cosmos Club, art is a vain posture, enlightenment is an elaborate con, and delusion is a way of life. Matthew Binder’s ingenious satire captures the absurdities of our fraught moment with a startling mix of laugh-out-loud hilarity and subtle melancholy. It’s a novel you won’t shake anytime soon.” Jeff Jackson, author of Destroy All Monsters

This is not your comic book trickster. Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Godsis satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston. Can Odin’s many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity’s champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. This is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magicand sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki. In his own words.

“Timely, hilarious, and wildly original, Twilight of the Gods is unlike any book you’ve ever read and finds Baumeister at the top of his game.” — Jonathan Evison, author of Again and Again

“Forget what you think you know about Norse gods and modern history. Irreverent, humorous, and packing a gut punch of reality, Baumeister has invoked perhaps one of the most memorable Lokis of the 21st century.” —Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark

“Big, sprawling, smart, epic in every sense of the word – Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods mines ancient ground and comes up with something wonderfully vivid and new to say about mythology and our modern era.” — Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You 

“If the MCU—or, better, D’Aulaires Book of Norse Myths—was redrawn by Martin Amis, you’d arrive at Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods, a book that combines Nabokovian grace with sardonic, hardboiled snap. The result is a total delight.” — Matthew Specktor, author of Always Crashing in the Same Car

“Baumeister’s shape-shifting tale of gods and humans is delightfully wry and self-assured, a novel that warps received narratives and histories into gleaming new forms.” — Mark Doten, author of Trump Sky Alpha

“A seedy urban fantasy zigzagging through time that sets the Norse Gods loose in modern day Boston…Get ready for a propulsive myth-soaked noir.” — Iris Smyles, author of Droll Tales and Dating Tips for the Unemployed