Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...

When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deran...

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time...

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon w...

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a weal...

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a...

Pedro is a solitary writer who decides to embark upon an imaginary disorientation in order to get to...

Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charisma...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid...

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American...

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical f...

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate cha...

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hour...

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab ...

Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon dis...

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's l...

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an over...