Biography
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Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building
by Terry Wolverton  Publisher Comments In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian...
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by Ellen Ullman 
Publisher Comments A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs a computer consulting business out of her live-work loft in San Francisco's multimedia gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in...
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
by David Meltzer Publisher Comments "San Francisco Beat" is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and...
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Book of Dreams
by Jack Kerouac
Powells.com Staff Pick "Jack Kerouac needs no introduction. Book of Dreams is his journal of his dream life, and it is as wild and magical as any of his fiction." Chris F., Powells.com...
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Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
by Roxann Dunbar Ortiz
Publisher Comments In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz became a founding member of the early women's liberation movement. Along with a small group of dedicated women, she produced the seminal journal series, No More Fun and Games.Her group, Cell 16 occupied the radical fringe of...
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Indigenous: Growing Up Californian
by Cris Mazza Publisher Comments Cris Mazza delivers a spirited rebuttal to pop-culture stereotypes about growing up female in Southern California. Coming of age in the 1970s and '80s, Mazza's memories aren't about surfing, cheerleading or riding in convertibles. Though her story has...
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Book of Jon (04 Edition)
by Eleni Sikelianos Publisher Comments With a seamless weave of letters, reminiscences, poems and journal entries, Sikelianos creates a loving portrait-and an unblinking indictment-of her father. Jon, a multitalented, eccentric visionary, emerges as a brilliant, charming, irresponsible...
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First Third and Other Writings
by Neal Cassady Publisher Comments Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of...
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Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time #02: The Consul: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Volume II
by Ralph Rumney Publisher Comments Ralph Rumney has been in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's traveling companions-Guy Debord...
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