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by Ian Jack  Publisher Comments Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85--an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Stewart Home Publisher Comments "Home is a novelist, art agitator, and documenter of art terrorism... The art terrorist's art terrorist." --Modern Review.Neoism, Plagiarism & Praxis is concerned with what's been happening at the cutting edge of culture since the demise of Fluxus... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard W Robertson Publisher Comments This volume of visionary poetry by an Oregon poet showcases his unique style of streaming periodicity combined with wide-ranging intellect.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Meno Publisher Comments "Features some of the liveliest characters that one is apt to meet in a contemporary novel. Vividly described."-Publishers Weekly "Extremely vivid. . . . Any number of novels have been written about unhappy childhoods and bizarre families, but this one... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Arellano Publisher Comments "Arellano is that rare thing: an exceptional creative talent perfectly in tune with his own rapidly changing times." -Robert Coover In 2002, real-life mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Vincent "Buddy" Cianci was convicted of extortion. This is the story... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Longhi Publisher Comments San Francisco's underground unleashes a wild tempest of melancholy and psychodrama on an unsuspecting world. Poets, drag queens, performance artists, musicians, and strippers wander in and out of a yearlong hangover through seedy nightclubs, all-night... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Open City Magazine Publisher Comments A literary magazine of fiction, poetry, and artwork, Open City has a youthful, adventurous spirit and an uncanny knack for finding vibrant and original voices. It’s a rare cultural phenomenon: a literary journal that entices readers and writers... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zak Mucha Publisher Comments This is a story of a 17-year-old, Joseph Askew, growing up on the rough streets of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Raised in a religious commune, Joseph is at first shielded from the realities beyond the commune's walls. But when his parents are forced by... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Jack Publisher Comments "Granta 88" features John McGahern on his mother's struggle for health and happiness in Catholic Ireland; Edmund White on his mother's battle with the girdle in Texas; Alexandra Fuller on bearing a child in Africa; and Paul Theroux on an American... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paola Capriolo Publisher Comments A Man of Character is a book that can be read at many levels: At its most straightforward, it is the story of Erasmo Stiler, an engineer who inherits a derelict villa and destroys himself attempting to transform its garden into "a sort of Versailles", a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Jack Publisher Comments The USA is the world¹s newest, greatest, and only empire. Some would say it is the world¹s most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders. Is it a slander... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Poe Ballantine Publisher Comments Poe Ballantine's second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine's world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author's by... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Nester Publisher Comments Part memoir, part prose poetry and part rock book.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pedro De Jesus Publisher Comments 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 force" of alienation and erotic... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bart Plantenga Publisher Comments A sinister collection of stories that, through force of language, reveals the limits of power and commerce. His intelligent rage addresses Hitler from his dogs point of view, a sexual liaison with Andy Warhol, the Popes wet dreams, and other targets... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Granta Publisher Comments In 1983 Granta magazine set out to identify the 20 best novelists under 40 in Britain. This list included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, and Salman Rushdie. In 1993 Granta chose again, and among the selected works presented were those by Kazuo... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Devin Johnston Synopsis Sparkling with energy and intelligence, these poems are like chips in a mosaic, spare, hard, precise, and with a classic humanity and grace.-David Malouf Sources, Devin Johnston's third book of poetry, returns ad fontes: to sources in Greek and Latin... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Kraus 
Powells.com Staff Pick Ostensibly a book about the author's attempt to unsuccessfully market her experimental film, this book wanders from one topic to the next with a scattershot narrative that covers segments of the author's life, her relationships with friends, her... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pagan Kennedy Publisher Comments It's 1968. Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, have been taking care of their father for their entire adult lives. When he dies, they hit the road in their Plymouth Valiant to take a much needed vacation. Frannie, the novel's narrator, longs to... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Marshal Lewis Publisher Comments Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Kenji Jasper, rapper NAS, Danyel Smith, and others provide the savory text in this second issue of the new black-themed literary journal that is drawing comparisons to McSweeney's and The Paris Review.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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