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So Late, So Soon: A Memoir
So Late, So Soon: A Memoir
by D'Arcy Fallon
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D'Arcy Fallon offers an irreverent, fly-on-the-wall view of the Lighthouse Ranch, a Christian commune she called home for three years in the mid-1970s. At 18 years old, when life's questions overwhelmed her and reconciling her family past with her future... (read more)

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Things I Like about America: Personal Narratives
Things I Like about America: Personal Narratives
by Poe Ballantine
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In a style reminiscent of David Sedaris, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Scott Carrier, these true stories of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer chronicle Ballantine's search for America as he rides the Greyhound bus from small town... (read more)

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I Love Dick
I Love Dick
by Chris Kraus
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In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited... (read more)

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Making Stuff and Doing Things
Making Stuff and Doing Things
by Kyle Bravo
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Kyle Bravo has assembled his HOW TO zines into a comprehensive book along with dozens of other instructional articles that tell you how to do...just about everything yourself. Topics include getting active, direct action, gardening, making a woodstove... (read more)

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My Desk and I: Stories
My Desk and I: Stories
by K. B. Dixon
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"I call and leave a message because I just don't want to see her tonight. There are nights like that, when I don't want to see her — partly because I am who I am and partly because she is who she is. Lately it's been more because she is who she is... (read more)

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Close to Death: Poems
Close to Death: Poems
by Patricia Smith
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Amplifying the voices and souls of black men at various stages of their lives, Close to Death is a poetic requiem for those who struggle against the odds, for those who have resigned themselves to death, and for those already gone.... (read more)

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The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
by Stephen Graha Jones
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If there's a line between the real and the digital, between meat and the game, between past and present, then hold this book close to your mouth and whisper it into the pages. Please. Maybe the kid in there'll hear you. His name is Nolan Dugatti. He's... (read more)

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Some of the Parts
Some of the Parts
by T Cooper
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Four fractured lives lived in various forms of exile eventually join to re-forge a definition of family from the ashes.... (read more)

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The Televisionary Oracle
The Televisionary Oracle
by Rob Brezsny
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A cult of shamanistic women sets out to dismantle the myth of the apocalypse in this genre-spanning tale of kidnap, lust, and menstruation.... (read more)

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
by Chris Ware
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian... (read more)

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Monster Fashion
Monster Fashion
by Jarret Keene
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Popular culture has never been so poetically observed as in this debut collection by Jarret Keene. Insights into contemporary social issues, including abandoned babies and concealed weapons, complement reflections on Aubrey Beardsley and Mad's Alfred E... (read more)

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Lenny Bruce is Dead
Lenny Bruce is Dead
by Jonathan Goldstein
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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)

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Frigid Tales
Frigid Tales
by Pedro De Jesus
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This beautiful and original collection of stories plays opportunely with realism and fiction to create a world divided into six tales that form an interlocked unity-forming a passionate novel that gives us a tour de forceof alienation and erotic... (read more)

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The Haunted Hillbilly
The Haunted Hillbilly
by Derek McCormack
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This historic first-person narrative is told by Nudie, "The Rodeo Tailor" (perhaps most famous for dressing Elvis Presley), a gay couturier who, in Derek McCormack's world, also happens to be a vampire.... (read more)

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Friendly fire /Bob Black.
Friendly fire /Bob Black.
by Bob Black
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This third volume of essays in tactical media (following The Electronic Disturbance and Electronic Civil Disobedience) traces the developing topographies of digital intervention. Indicating that no cultural bunker is ever fully secure, the CAE show the... (read more)

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Scary, No Scary
Scary, No Scary
by Zach Schomburg
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This follow-up to Zachary Schomburg’s acclaimed first collection of poems The Man Suit, is a book of skeleton gloves and skeleton keys — at once dark and playful. With loneliness and levity Schomburg takes the reader on a tour through a... (read more)

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If I Catch You Reading This
If I Catch You Reading This
by Jeremy R. Benjamin
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If what you're seeking are world-weary strippers, fractured office politics, amusing yet disturbing visions of the future, and lavish descriptions of male genitalia, then look no further. -Tim Josephs (author of A Camouflaged Fragrance of Decency) There... (read more)

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Man Suit
Man Suit
by Zachary Schomburg
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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)

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Fish, Soap and Bonds
Fish, Soap and Bonds
by Larry Fondation
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Fish, Soap and Bonds follows the movements of three homeless people on the unforgiving streets of Los Angeles. Through their eyes we experience both the depths and heights of humanity: hate and discrimination, sacrifice and redemption. This is the third... (read more)

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Zerostrata
Zerostrata
by Andersen Prunty
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After ten years, Hansel Nothing returns to his boyhood home, unable to remember anything that has happened to him since he left. Back home, he stays in Zerostrata, a treehouse in the backyard. The Nothing family is as dysfunctional and depressed as ever.... (read more)

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