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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
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This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the... (read more)

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The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Quentin Crisp
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I'm not usually a fan of autobiography but... (read more)

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Mark Morrisroe
by Klaus Ottmann
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-N-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind
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I don't know much about film, but I can keep up with the best Hollywood gossipers. In an attempt to elevate and justify my shameful interest in the lives of celebrities, I found a terrific book. Easy Riders Raging Bulls begins with Hollywood in bad... (read more)

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Other Pictures: Anonymous Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection
by Thomas Walther
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs Mcneil
Staff Pick
If you like your history bloody, rowdy, insolent, and glitter-filled, this book is for you. Please Kill Me tells the story of the evolution of punk through testimonies of those who were there. The story begins with the kink and drugged sounds of the... (read more)

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