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Kevin Sampsell

Kevin Sampsell runs the small press section at Powell's and is the publisher of his own micro-press, Future Tense Books. His books include Creamy Bullets, Portland Noir, and the memoir A Common Pornography.

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Primitive Mentor
by Dean Young
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A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
by Miriam Toews
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Roses of No Man's Land
by Lyn Macdonald
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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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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir
by Zoe Trope
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"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)

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The Golden Calf
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What Waiting Really Means (American Literature)
by June Akers Seese
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Necessary Stranger
by Graham Foust
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