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Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life by Anonymous Staff Pick Everyone has the relationship they look back on and wonder what the hell they were thinking dating and/or staying with this person for so long. This memoir perfectly captures the feelings that come years after that relationship has ended. You knew the... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #17: McSweeney's Issue 17 by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments This quarterly publication has grown into one of the country's largest-circulation literary journals. It is committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Ephemera
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Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Brolaski Publisher Comments Poetry. LGBT Studies. GOWANUS ATROPOLIS attempts to reconcile the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in "Manahatta" with the poet's search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot by Graham Roumieu Publisher Comments America’s favorite crypto-zoological hominid is hilariously recast as the modern-day everyman, struggling with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture, and philosophical quandaries (“Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rent Girl by Michelle Tea and Larenn McCubbin Staff Pick The second half of Rent Girl captures so well what San Francisco was like pre-dot-com and in the beginning stages of the dot-com revolution. This San Francisco got wiped out in the tsunami of tech cash that washed the alternative culture across the bay... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Divorcer by Gary Lutz Staff Pick A breathtaking suite of sentence-driven stories that are as refreshingly funny as they are emotionally eviscerating. Linked by themes of broken relationships and mistrustful lovers, Lutz's newest stories are full of descriptions and observations so... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In a Bears Eye by Yannick Murphy Publisher Comments The title story was included in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2007.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tongue Party by Sarah Rose Etter Review “There are stories that show you the way things are, and ones that show you the way things might be, and then there are stories that tear you apart and build different things from the pieces. You might be happy with some of them, but I assure you, you... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Island of Fifty by Ben Brooks Review "Ben Brooks is popping quarks with An Island of Fifty, spilling new flavors of literature on the swampy bookstacks of old. Call it new political, new ecological, new sociological, new poetic activism, or even new imaginary creationism. This book builds... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Edie & the Low-Hung Hands by Brian Allen Carr Publisher Comments Fiction. After murdering his elder brother, Marlet must flee the broken town of Victory. With his sword, our low-hung handed hero maneuvers his way through a decrepit southern desert murdering blank-skinned men, being pursued by his illegitimate son, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sleepingfish 0.9375 by Derek White and Robert Lopez Publisher Comments Magazine. Fiction. Art. SLEEPINGFISH 0.9375 is a literary magazine of experimental fictions, texts and art by Irana Douer, Blake Butler, Matthew Simmons, Minju Pak, Girija Tropp, Deb Olin Unferth, Amira Hanafi, Annie Clarkson, Salvatore Difalco, Terese... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #42: McSweeney's Issue 42 by Dave Eggers Synopsis With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of Kapow!,Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literaturetwelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One More for the People by Martha Grover Publisher Comments Eight years in the making, One More for the People is the first collection of Martha Grover's zine Somnambulist. Playful, wry, and conversational, One More for the People chronicles three generations in the life of the Grover family. As these... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones Publisher Comments Hettie Jones presents an intimate memoir of her life--from her middle-class Jewish family in Queens to her marriage to the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones and her search for her own artistic voice. Infused with the passion of the late 1950s and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott Publisher Comments Fiction. MOTHERLUNGE is an eloquent and irreverent debut novel about first sex, true love, and chronic sibling rivalry; it's about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing life. It's motherly advice... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #119: Granta 119: Britain by John Freeman Synopsis A nation defined by tradition and built on expansion, Britain now has more languages spoken within its capital than any other city in the world. Recently, Granta has explored Chicago, Pakistan and the world of Spanish-language letters. In this bold... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Geek Mafia by Rick Dakan Publisher Comments Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Glazner Staff Pick One of the really cool elements about this thorough collection of slam celebrities are the many sidebar articles about the logistics and history of the slam. These articles include tips on how to memorize your work, how to do your own spoken word tour... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 by Chris Ware Publisher Comments This issue 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: Lynda Berry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Malachi B... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Zine Yearbook #9 by Joe Biel Publisher Comments The annual anthology of zine reprints now includes relevant articles about the year in zines - super fun zine fests, life changing experiences, amazing pen pal connections, and stories from people who hold zines dear to their hearts. It's a... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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