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by Stephen-paul Martin Publisher Comments These stories hold a fictional mirror up to our culture. What we see reflected is often amusing and scary: a world where popular culture and the culture of deceit, cynicism and disgust collide head-on, where Columbus and the American presidency are... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by J Tarin Towers Publisher Comments J. Tarin Towers writes about the politics of human relationships in a fiercely distinctive voice. She has a keen ear for the rhythms of everyday speech and a form that flirts with tradition. In a framework of love and sex and betrayal, these poems and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Bissett Publisher Comments When bill bissett thinks "inkorrect thots" anything can happen.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Martin Millar Publisher Comments The Good Fairies of New York finds two Scottish thimble fairies transported to lower Manhattan. Morag and Heather, who didn't completely fit in back in the old country, are a bit bewildered by their new surroundings, but make do as best they can. They're... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bruce Caen Publisher Comments A thinly-veiled autobiographical coming of age story, written against the backdrop of the first rush of Punk Rock in Los Angeles and Hollywood, this narrative steps into the West Coast Punk rock scene of 1976-1982, a fervent creative period in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jonathan Baumbach Publisher Comments No one before him may have so tacitly failed at writing a memoir as Jonathan Baumbach's poet-protagonist, B, an intellectual's Bukowski, who struggles to write his history in this comedic new novel. But the events herein exist largely in the gray area... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Win Mccormack Publisher Comments This superb collection features some of the freshest, funniest, most intriguing interviews in the history of Tin House. A veritable who’s who of contemporary writers, poets, and graphic novelists discuss work, life, literary theft, dry spells, what... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steve Abbott Publisher Comments One evening, the Unbearables were bemoaning the sorry state of radical culture, and asked themselves what single act they could do to release themselves from their past, while at the same time honoring it. Perhaps put the beatniks, the real beatniks, on... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by A D Winans Powells.com Staff Pick Mr. Winans has been around for a long time, and you can tell with this collection of poems, all based on his friendships in literally historic North Beach. In here you'll find photos and poems that play like old movie reels from the beat generation... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Aaron Petrovich Publisher Comments Funny, frantic, and with a subversive intelligence, Aaron Petrovich's Keatonesque heroes, Detectives Smith and Smith, stumble upon a bizarre new religion while tracking a murder victim's stolen organs. Their investigation leads them into a lunatic asylum... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Ian Jack Publisher Comments The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recaptureits climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived.This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ("THEEND IS NIGH"). Respectable... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry Baum Synopsis Ray Tompkins is the kind of person you never get to know. He's the security guard, the factory worker, the man working the midnight shift. Nobody really understands Ray - not his coworkers, not his family, and certainly not the women in his life. There... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Gould Publisher Comments A FINALIST FOR THE 2003 GILLER PRIZE. CANADA'S MOST prestigious literary award,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Bissett Publisher Comments scars on th seehors is bill bissett's latest report from and to the image nation, in which his metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself.<P>In the 1960s, bill bissett assumed an almost... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth Block Synopsis Elizabeth Blocks debut novel, A Gesture through Time (written under fiscal sponsorship of Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, selected as a 1997 Heekin Foundation first novel fellowship finalist, short-listed with an honorable mention for... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marci Blackman Publisher Comments A 27-year-old African-American lesbian named Po stars in this narrative of betrayal, kinky sex, religious fanaticism, and the supernatural.<P>After sustaining a serious injury that occurs during an S/M with her lover and receiving a call from her... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ron Kolm Publisher Comments Shut Them Down! is an essential collection of reflections on the movement against the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. As well as action stories from the frontlines of resistance to the summit, there are detailed accounts of how various aspects of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mike Topp Publisher Comments Mike Topp's irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralph Nader of literature. — Andrei... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Granta Publisher Comments <div>For the past 23 years, a diverse group of writers including Raymond Carver, Primo Levi, Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Isaiah Berlin, and Richard Ford have debuted new work in Granta, helping to establish it as the leading venue for... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Francois Peraldi Publisher Comments Originally conceived as a special Semiotext(e) issue on homosexuality at the end of the 70s, andquot;Polysexualityandquot; quickly evolved into a more complex and iconoclastic project whose intent was to do away with recognized genders altogether... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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