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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Staff Pick The long-awaited debut collection by Wells Tower does not disappoint. Full of masterful tales, brilliant humor, and soul-shattering pathos, Tower's work should place him at the forefront of American storytellers.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Lean on Pete (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick From Willy Vlautin, one of the most natural storytellers ever to come out of the Northwest, comes a heartbreaking adventure starring 15-year-old Charley Thompson. It's like Tom Sawyer, but with more drunks, death, and weird strangers. Another engrossing... (read more) Your price: $13.99 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand Staff Pick Whether you call it political action, slogan, or aphorism, guerrilla poetry — the kind you hold in your hand (pamphlet or broadside) or see on the street — is probably more widely read and thought about than Walt Whitman. Imagine if Republican... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Home Land by Sam Lipsyte 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.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Complicated Kindness: A Novel by Miriam Toews 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, heartrending... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Make Loneliness by J. Reuben Appelman Staff Pick Appelman is a poet for the ages. Make Loneliness is cool, crazy, hard to categorize.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Big World by Mary Miller Staff Pick Miller is in complete control of the scenes she creates. Full of character details that are illuminating, familiar, and often distressing, Miller's sharp and assured stories remind me of that people-next-door quality that Raymond Carver perfected in his... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock Staff Pick This book, and its writer, came out of nowhere and knocked me square in the throat. You could see Knockemstiff as a dark, demented updating of Winesburg, Ohio, or you could simply notice it as the work of a new American master. Pollock goes where many... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ask by Sam Lipsyte Staff Pick The Ask takes an unassuming (and seemingly unfunny) premise about a dude who wrangles large financial donations for a school and turns it into an outright laugh riot. Not only is this just as funny as his amazing Home Land, but it also showcases Lipsyte... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Miss America by Catherine Wagner 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... (read more) Your price: $11.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Motel Life (UK Edition) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenny Bruce Is Dead by Jonathan Goldstein 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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - 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) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea Staff Pick 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope 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... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald Staff Pick 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) Your price: $23.50 New - Mass Market
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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope Staff Pick "This high school memoir by Zoe Trope takes on all the cliched aspects of high school, but its form dissolves the catalogued pop culture references and the near universal alienation felt by high school misanthropes and pulls off a precise critique. Zoe... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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