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Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life
by Laura Stanfill
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Legs Get Led Astray
by Chloe Caldwell
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Fast Machine
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Hairstyles of the Damned
by Joe Meno
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The Boy Detective Fails
by Joe Meno
Staff Pick
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Hiding Out
by Jonathan Messinger
Staff Pick
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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)

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Make Loneliness
by J. Reuben Appelman
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Appelman is a poet for the ages. Make Loneliness is cool, crazy, hard to categorize.... (read more)

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Letters to Wendy's
by Joe Wenderoth
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Flowers
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Staff Pick
Flowers does for me what a John Ashbery collection does: mystifies, stifles, and causes a desire to mimic, leaving with it the eventual personal failure to do so. These are signs of great poetry. Killebrew succeeds in creating comic and anecdotal lines... (read more)

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The Golden Calf
by Henry Baum
Staff Pick
This tight little novel is a burst of comic angst and venom in the tradition of Selby, Bukowski, and Nelson Algren. Originally published by Soft Skull back when their books were glued in a basement apartment, this new version of The Golden Calf is part... (read more)

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