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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 $3.63 (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 Matt Berns Sycamore Publisher Comments Pulling Taffy inhabits the boundaries between fiction, autobiography, and truth. It's about choosing to remain dangerous and unrepentant, struggling to survive this ravaging world without losing a sense of integrity and charm. Moving from mid-nineties... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carlton Mellick Publisher Comments There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aaron Cometbus Publisher Comments What Kerouac was to the Beat generation, Aaron Cometbus is to the punk scene in Berkeley, California. In this first novel, his slacker kids ponder life's mundane questions with the seriousness of ancient philosophers: how to get by on no money, where to... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kevin Sampsell 
Publisher Comments Kevin Sampsell likes secrets. In the short story collection Beautiful Blemish, Sampsell dives deep into the human psyche to reveal the layers of secret desire, loneliness and hope buried in our hearts. The stories in Beautiful Blemish display an American... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Junker Publisher Comments Howard Junker is a collection of memoirs, confessions, and personal narratives from "ZYZZYVA, the premiere literary journal of the West Coast, now celebration its 20th anniversary.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Derek White and Robert Lopez Publisher Comments The new issue of Sleepingfish is packed with works of text and art by Irana Douer, Blake Butler, Matthew Simmons, Minju Pak, Girija Tropp, Deb Olin Unferth, Amira Hanafi, Annie Clarkson, Salvatore Difalco, Terese Svoboda, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie... (read more) Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments My Motheris a unique bildungsromanof a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.?Publishers Weekly My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Mancomprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (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 $4.95 (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'sand 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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by Daniel Scott Publisher Comments "A stunning collection."-Memphis Flyer A first collection, loss, inexact communication among family, friends are told with relentless honesty.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Russell Kick
Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jamie S. Rich Publisher Comments It's 1999 in Portland, Oregon. Lance Scott has just turned 25 and has a pretty good life. Peter Weller is his god; music his constant companion. He has a great apartment, a spoiled cat, an easygoing roommate. Only one thing is missing — the girl of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Margolis Publisher Comments The Condition Red Blues: Every morning Jack Strangehorn wakes up, gets ready for work, sees his wife's face, and turns into a pillar of salt. Aaron Whitman learns the secret of eternal life by committing suicide. What if you had a regular Tuesday... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Wisniewski Publisher Comments This collection of 14 short stories evinces an edgy, humorous, and sexually tense contemporary America. The characters range from urban immigrants to college students, each of whom is on the verge of understanding contemporary mores, or giving up on them... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diamanda Galas Publisher Comments The incomparable voice of our time, Diamanda Galas has stunned audiences worldwide in performances that are as moving as they are terrifying. A one-woman sonic event, she uses her impeccably disciplined, quicksilver vocal technique to evoke the profound... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Reed Publisher Comments Delirium, an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud's life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud left school and the provinces and lived his "season in hell." Jeremy Reed brings his own... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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