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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
by Justin Spring
Staff Pick
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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We the Animals
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Staff Pick
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The Sluts
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Staff Pick
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Annie Oakley's Girl
by Rebecca Brown
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Nightwood - With New Preface ((Rev)06 Edition)
by Djuna Barnes
Staff Pick
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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A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
Staff Pick
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
by Bob Smith
Staff Pick
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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The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
by Daniel Mendelsohn
Staff Pick
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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Time of the Doves (81 Edition)
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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The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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Rose of No Man's Land
by Michelle Tea
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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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