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Possible Side Effects
Possible Side Effects
by Augusten Burroughs
Staff Pick
As with other funny memoirists like Laurie Notaro or David Rakoff, Augusten Burroughs finds humor and absurdity in all sorts of mundane events. The twist is that Burroughs life — particularly his childhood — provides the surreal backdrop to a writer... (read more)

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Nightwood - With New Preface ((Rev)06 Edition)
Nightwood - With New Preface ((Rev)06 Edition)
by Djuna Barnes
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There's no denying that Nightwood is a demanding text. In her preface, Jeanette Winterson aptly writes of Djuna Barnes's prose: "You can slide into it, because the prose has a narcotic quality, but you can't slide over it." When given the attention it... (read more)

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The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Mendelsohn's pitch-perfect writing enlivens tales of his childhood in a brand new Long Island suburb and the profound influence of the stories his multilingual maternal grandfather would tell of his Orthodox Jewish family and their escape from the... (read more)

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The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Quentin Crisp
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I'm not usually a fan of autobiography but... (read more)

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The Sluts
The Sluts
by Dennis Cooper
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Dennis Cooper's The Sluts is addictive in a very disturbing way; it creates as much self-reflection as it does analysis of the characters and their fantasies. The sex described is brutal and graphic and unreal and maybe none of it ever happens and maybe... (read more)

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A Single Man
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
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Published in 1964, A Single Man was Isherwood's favorite of his nine novels. It's a moving and sincere portrait of one day in the life of George, a gay British man who is an English professor in Southern California, adjusting to life after the sudden... (read more)

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Selfish and Perverse
Selfish and Perverse
by Bob Smith
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Entertaining, romantic, and extremely funny, Bob Smith's debut novel is the improbably charming story of Nelson Kunker, a young comedian who can't decide between the famous, gorgeous Dylan or the stable, sane (but also gorgeous) Roy. Selfish and Perverse... (read more)

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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
by Justin Spring
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Sam Steward moved between culture both high (he was a close friend of Gertrude Stein) and low (he became one of the foremost tattoo artists in the country, well before tattoos became socially acceptable, and authored several volumes of erotic fiction... (read more)

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The Time of the Doves
The Time of the Doves
by Merce Rodoreda
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I've worked in the literature section for almost eight years, and the beauty of Powell's is in the opportunity to discover, time and again, an author that you've never heard of before, one that sits on a bottom shelf close to the floor gathering dust... (read more)

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Rose of No Man's Land
Rose of No Man's Land
by Michelle Tea
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Michelle Tea, a long-time favorite with streetwise memoir readers, proved she could pull off a novel with Rose of No Man's Land. It's like Freaks and Geeks with lesbians. Tea's writing dazzles and hurts in all the right places and her comic timing has... (read more)

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Specimen Days
Specimen Days
by Michael Cunningham
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Specimen Days, a novel in three parts, showcases Michael Cunningham's capacity to evoke complex characters and expansive emotional reactions. Featuring a host of shifting but related characters — including a lizard-like alien and a precocious boy with... (read more)

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Annie Oakley's Girl
Annie Oakley's Girl
by Rebecca Brown
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"A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed."... (read more)

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