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The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon
by Shawn Granton and Nate Beaty  Publisher Comments Shawn Granton (Ten Foot Rule) and Nate Beaty (Brainfag Comics) edited a really comprehensive guide of things to do in Portland, OR. Features tons of information on various neighborhoods, bridges, eateries, hangouts, bars, places that sell zines, and how...
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Partial List of People To Bleach
by Gary Lutz Review "Despite its brevity and zine-ish format, Gary Lutz's bold and original new story collection feels like one of the season's biggest books....This thin chapbook is currently the best way to get a lump of Lutz. Savor it." Michael Miller, Time...
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Motorman
by David Ohle About the Author David Ohle's novel, Motorman, was published by Alfred P. Knopf in 1972. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He compiled & edited Cursed From Birth: The Short Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr...
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The Boy Detective Fails
by Joe Meno 
Powells.com Staff Pick The world Joe Meno creates in this book is one full of infinite possibilities. The protagonist, somewhat of a superhero with sleuthing powers, spends his childhood solving mysteries and fighting crime. His adulthood is spent being frightened by the...
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Shock Treatment
by Karen Finley Publisher Comments Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire,""We Keep Our Victims Ready,""It's Only Art,"and "The Black Sheep."Excoriating misogyny, homophobia...
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his...
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Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of...
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Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?
by Jamie S. Rich Publisher Comments World-famous author Percival Mendelssohn and his wife Iris were the toast of literary society until her shocking suicide exposed the emptiness behind the couple's idyllic public image. Convinced that there was no love left in the modern world, Percival...
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Eeeee Eee Eeee
by Tao Lin Publisher Comments Tao Lin's book blog, ReaderofDepressingBooks.com, has made him one of the most talked-about young writers on the scene today. His commentaries taking mainstream writers to task and calling for the death of commercial writing have generated nonstop...
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You Can't Win
by Jack Black
Publisher Comments A legendary American cult classic, a best seller in 1926 when first published, and reprinted five times, this is the true story of criminal convict and hobo Jack Black....
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Cool for You
by Eileen Myles
Publisher Comments Grainy, stained and stripped, this nonfiction novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of...
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The Heart is Also a Furnace
by Magdalen Powers Publisher Comments The bizarre dreams, serene desires, and moments of cracked innocence in The Heart is Also a Furnance, Magdalen Powers's long-awaited second collection of stories, are like stars — small, sparkling, and, upon closer inspection, containing worlds full...
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Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf
by Paul Fattaruso Publisher Comments In this lyrical and highly visual modern-day fable, a man travels to Antarctica where he finds Isabella, a dinosaur, below a sheet of ice....
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Nylund the Sarcographer
by Joyelle McSweeney Publisher Comments Nylund, the Sarcographer is a baroque noir. Its eponymous protagonist is a loner who tries to comprehend everything from the outside, like a sarcophagus, and with analogously ornate results. The method by which the book was written, and by which Nylund...
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Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella
by Myriam Gurba Publisher Comments Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to Saint Michael's Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can't be snuffed out so easily: Screwy brain...
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Venous Hum
by Suzette Mayr Publisher Comments Praise for "The Widows" <P>"Engagingly written."-"Canadian Literature" <P>"A comic novel . . . Ýwith¨ a happy and delicious ending."-"Quill & Quire" <P>Praise for "Moon Honey" <P>"Mayr skewers her characters mercilessly and...
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The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis 3
by M. W. Anderson and Brett Alexander Savory Publisher Comments On May 5, 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas, three 8-year-old boys were brutally murdered. They were found bound ankle-to-wrist with their own shoelaces, severely beaten and dumped in a nearby stream. Several weeks passed and police were stumped-not even a...
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The Revisionist
by Miranda Mellis Review “Like a panopticon of virtual dystopia, The Revisionist allows characters which seem human only by dint of a certain nostalgia. A world is wiped away, but leaves a smudge on the lens. This is the eye’s response to the everyday workings of what no...
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Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness
by Amy L. Clark and Elizabeth Ellen and Kathy Fish and Claudia Smith Publisher Comments The four chapbooks collected in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness, three of them finalists and one of them the winner of the Rose Metal Press first annual short short chapbook contest, all revel in the succinctness of their form, the underlying tension...
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The Entire Predicament
by Lucy Corin Publisher Comments In this refreshing, funny, and startling collection of stories, Lucy Corin veers far from the path of staid contemporary fiction. She masterfully weaves traditional and experimental topics and techniques, creating a fictional world where people behave...
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