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Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life by Anonymous Staff Pick Everyone has the relationship they look back on and wonder what the hell they were thinking dating and/or staying with this person for so long. This memoir perfectly captures the feelings that come years after that relationship has ended. You knew the... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Legs Get Led Astray by Chloe Caldwell Staff Pick I've read this book twice. And both times I've been blown away (and sometimes shocked) by the raw honesty in the pages. But if I were to tell you what shocked me, it wouldn't be the sex and drugs. It would be that I was left with an overwhelming sense of... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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Fast Machine by Elizabeth Ellen Staff Pick Elizabeth Ellen is a master of capturing the insecurities and inner workings of her characters. They drink, fight, sneak around, seduce, and stumble around trying to figure out their lives. There is very little (if any) crying. Elizabeth Ellen's people... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg Staff Pick I think Schomburg may be my new favorite Portland poet. While reading The Man Suit, I felt both an eerie sadness and joyful wonder. These little poems, with their odd recurring themes and sober delivery, are full of untraceable magic and humor. After... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life by Laura Stanfill Staff Pick I'm really, really not just picking this because I have an essay in the collection. Really. This sweet, little book is wonderfully indie (printed solely and beautifully using an Espresso Book Machine, one of which lives at Powell's City of Books) and... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Divorcer by Gary Lutz Staff Pick A breathtaking suite of sentence-driven stories that are as refreshingly funny as they are emotionally eviscerating. Linked by themes of broken relationships and mistrustful lovers, Lutz's newest stories are full of descriptions and observations so... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno Staff Pick Hairstyles of the Damned is a very funny and sweet punk-rock coming-of-age story set in Chicago. Highly recommended!... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Green Girl by Kate Zambreno Staff Pick A study in disaffected youth, Green Girl is awash in the apathy and angst of today's directionless 20-somethings. Ruth, a young, beautiful American working as a "shopgirl" in London, wanders aimlessly from job to job and man to man. She sees her life as... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno Staff Pick The world Joe Meno creates in this book is one full of infinite possibilities. The protagonist, somewhat of a superhero with sleuthing powers, spends his childhood solving mysteries and fighting crime. His adulthood is spent being frightened by the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rent Girl by Michelle Tea and Larenn McCubbin Staff Pick The second half of Rent Girl captures so well what San Francisco was like pre-dot-com and in the beginning stages of the dot-com revolution. This San Francisco got wiped out in the tsunami of tech cash that washed the alternative culture across the bay... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz Staff Pick Don't miss Stories in the Worst Way, the seminal collection by the writer who has been called "the master of the sentence."... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian Staff Pick Break-ups, bad jobs, and sad literary aspirations add up to make one gritty, funny New York comedy.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Figures for a Darkroom Voice by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson Staff Pick These aren't just two guys with three names each; these are two of the poets to watch in the next generation. Gordon just won the National Poetry Series Open (judged by the legendary John Ashbery) for his book Novel Pictorial Noise, and Wilkinson won the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust Staff Pick Foust's poems are built with quiet and contemplative building blocks that are nearly see-through enough to reveal the barest intentions behind their words. He uses repeated phrasing not for dramatic effect but instead to slow things down into a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Drunk by Noon by Jennifer L. Knox Staff Pick Knox does it again. She is one of the most hilarious and unpredictable poets working today. Drunk by Noon is refreshing and wild.... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Bicycle by Paul Fattaruso Staff Pick An amazing meditation/fever dream/love song/mini epic about one man's love for a bike. Or is it a girl? All I know is that Bicycle is the ideal gift for any bike geek/poet out there.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Misfits and Other Heroes by Suzanne Burns Staff Pick Suzanne Burns's Misfits and Other Heroes is a strange and compulsively readable collection. Her cast of characters is carnival-esque, her prose is fresh, and the stories are sad, bizarre, and resonant. This book is a fun-house mirror of human experience,... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Widow by Suzanne Burns Staff Pick I'm not an avid poetry reader, but Suzanne Burns's The Widow hooked me as a lover of short stories. When read straight through, The Widow is a coherent narrative, the individual poems coalescing into a plot, with a beautifully-paced emotional arc... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Pamphlet
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Hiding Out by Jonathan Messinger Staff Pick Hiding Out, Messinger's wonderful debut collection, is full of mishaps and mishaps waiting to happen, but he somehow transforms the uncomfortable moments into familiar sparks that shine and resonate.... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth Staff Pick From poet Joe Wenderoth comes one of the strangest epistolary books in years. Letters to Wendy's is a disturbing, hilarious, and even philosophical journey into a weirdo's mind.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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