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Stories in the Worst Way
by Gary Lutz  
From Powells.com "In a world of literature that is sometimes too bogged down in style or overwrought with manipulative emotion, the work of Gary Lutz is dazzling and deeply entrenched in the realistic comedy of the human body. Thankfully, it was recently republished...
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Radio on: A Listener's Diary
by Sarah Vowell
Publisher Comments There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened—closely, critically, creatively—for an entire year. As a series of impressions and...
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Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte
Powells.com Staff Pick A caustic and hilarious story about Lewis Miner, a man afflicted by a terrible high school experience and blessed with an acid tongue that takes no prisoners. Lipsyte's sentences are creations of absolute wonder and terrific angst. Recommended by Kevin...
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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir
by Zoe Trope
Powells.com Staff Pick Please Don't Kill the Freshman is a totally honest (sometimes brutally so) look at surviving high school. The author was in high school when she wrote this funny, heart-breaking, kick-ass journal-cum-novel, and you can tell: all the blood and guts of...
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Miss America
by Catherine Wagner
Powells.com Staff Pick "Fence Books is a new division of the great literary magazine Fence, and Miss America (along with Chelsea Minnis's Zirconia) launches this venture nicely. Wagner's poems are playful and whimsical and sharply stylish (especially the last series of...
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Powerlines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex
by Julie Parson-nesbitt
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing compilation from Chicago's weekly poetry readings at the Guild Complex, the award-winning, cross-cultural literary center. Revolutionary chants and resonating love poetry presented by a diverse group, including Carolyn Kizer, Bob...
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The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
by Neal Pollack
Publisher Comments This collection of satirical essays by the wildly clever Neal Pollack was among the first books published by McSweeney's. The author fabricates for himself a super-inflated ego, and goes on to apply that persona's preposterously offensive and short...
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The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life
by Mike Albo Publisher Comments You can't escape him. He swerves in and out of your life as if effortlessly walking through a crowded restaurant. He's a passive-aggressive master. He's as undetectable as a whisper and as effective as a tiny toxic pill. You probably went to school with...
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Notable American Women
by Ben Marcus
Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "The Age of Wire and String" writes an allegory of the power and impotence of modern women. On a farm in "Ohio, " a mother and father attempt to raise a boy without feelings. He tells the only story a boy with no feelings can...
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North Beach Revisited: New & Revised Poems
by A D Winans
Powells.com Staff Pick Mr. Winans has been around for a long time, and you can tell with this collection of poems, all based on his friendships in literally historic North Beach. In here you'll find photos and poems that play like old movie reels from the beat generation...
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A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
Powells.com Staff Pick Sharp and often howlingly funny — but insistently generous — A Complicated Kindness introduces sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel, straining under the pressure of family, boys, and authority, common enough conflicts drawn here in extravagant...
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Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry
by Gary Glazner
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the really cool elements about this thorough collection of slam celebrities are the many sidebar articles about the logistics and history of the slam. These articles include tips on how to memorize your work, how to do your own spoken word...
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We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
by Dan Sinker
Publisher Comments Punk Planethas explored the crossover of punk with activism, and reflects the currents of the underground while simultaneously challenging the bleak centerism of today's popular American culture. Daniel Sinkerbegan publishing and editing Punk...
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Wide Eyed (Little House on the Bowery)
by Trinie Dalton Publisher Comments In Trinie Dalton's tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, and Pavement are daily occurrences. Animals also populate this book; beavers, hamsters, salamanders, black...
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Kamikaze Lust
by Lauren Sanders
Publisher Comments "Kamikaze Lust" by first-time novelist Lauren Sanders takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled and humorous, the novel taps our obsession with sex and death, sex and popular...
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Outline of My Lover
by Douglas A Martin
Publisher Comments Part love story, part indictment, debut novel Outline of My Lover traces our society's damaging obsession with celebrity. Douglas A. Martin pays tribute to both Marguerite Duras and the late Kathy Acker with an Ackeresque rewriting of Duras' The Lover....
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Railroad Ties
by Chris Bodor
Powells.com Staff Pick New Yorker Chris Bodor decided to spend his commuting time writing, "through every sunset and every upset." His train rides turned into his own personal writing workshop and in the course of three years he's picked out the best stuff to go into...
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People Everyday: And Other Poems
by Daniel Crocker
Powells.com Staff Pick A couple of years ago a young poet named Daniel Crocker seemed to explode onto the small press scene. His poetry has the ability to make you cry if you let it. Some of his longer poems and writings about his brother's death and other close-to-the-...
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Lenny Bruce is Dead
by Jonathan Goldstein
Powells.com Staff Pick Goldstein, a former fixture on the Montreal spoken word scene, delivers a disjointed blast of fictions (is it a novel, are they "deep thoughts," are they short stories??) with Lenny Bruce is Dead. The bite-sized chapters are full of skewed observations...
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Pretty Things
by Susan Compo
From Powells.com "Compo glides back into the main story with skill, and from there it becomes a swirl of action. The country singer hits it big and runs off with a girl from the band Glee Club, the Tupperware guy hits on Giselle, and a pair of kidnappers ironically find...
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