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by Bill Bissett Publisher Comments Two "translationed" fragments from bill bissett's new book: <P>Someone says "God is dead" to them, and they hear "god is Ed". And then you introduce someone to them -- say: "This is Ed". And they go, "Please forgive me!" or, "How's your son?"... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George Hayduke Publisher Comments The outrageous sequel to the original, Get Even 2 presents a wide range of all-new dirty tricks people pull to get even with Big Business bums, footloose spouses, lousy landlords -- ripoffs of all types. This inspiring volume is a product of public... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Doug Nufer Publisher Comments This anthology of Fly's zines from 1992-1996 contains equal amounts of surreal comix and twisted prose, describing her daily struggle to keep things going against powerful controlling forces and have some fun, too. Fighting with contemptuous cops, fixing... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Martha Kinney Publisher Comments "The Fall of Heartless Horse" is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, tragic and absurd, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $2.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Barbara Barg Publisher Comments < i> The Origin of the Species< /i> collects stories, manifestos, rants and songs by Homer Erotic lead singer/poet/politico Barbara Barg. Raised as the only Jew in her Arkansas town in the mid-1960s, Barg's subject matter ranges from... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lynne Tillman Publisher Comments An irreverent and lucid sojourn through the facetious, twisted burps we call sophisticated society, captured by the camera-quick and ruthless eye of the ever-vigilant third person, Madame Realism.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $2.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alyssa Sturgill Publisher Comments Recipe for Spider Pie: blend 2 cups of dark humor with a healthy dash of oddity, add a pinch of ground freak's ear and 2 tsp of secret desires. Bake until your neighbors start complaning about the smell. In her debut book Alyssa Sturgill firmly... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Beller Publisher Comments The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Katy Lederer Publisher Comments Lederer's debut poetry collection explores sex, gender, nature and romance with lyric grace and intellectual rigor. These open and inventive poems are filled with "a kinetic energy that rises out of erotic desire"-D. A. Powell.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bad Company Publisher Comments This new-fiction special features stories by Edmund White, Rachel Cusk, Milan Kundera, and Gary Shteyngart, plus Rory Stewart on dervishes in Pakistan and Arthur Miller on life at the Chelsea Hotel.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Jennifer Blowdryer Publisher Comments Handy advice on how to survive, thrive, and be spectacular. These experiential, very real commentaries from today's underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from "Door Etiquette for the Nightlife-Challenged" by Clint Catalyst... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joe Meno Publisher Comments "Hairstyles" is an honest depiction of growing up punk on Chicago's south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lauren Sanders Publisher Comments "Kamikaze Lust" by first-time novelist Lauren Sanders takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled and humorous, the novel taps our obsession with sex and death, sex and popular... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Todd Colby Publisher Comments The best of Todd Colby's Soft Skull poetry collections Ripsnort and Cush are here with new poetry and prose. This is simultaneously a "Best Of" and a launching into new directions for this intensely high-energy poet. He is a spontaneous, lively performer,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robin Caton Publisher Comments Bridging traditions of secular, religious, modernist, and post modernist writing to encounter living at its most provocative and urgent, Caton's poems—at times conversational, meditative, minimalist, and expansive—are unified by an insistence... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Meier Publisher Comments "Basking in the twilight of Late Romanticism, Meier . . . finds the rays seductive but damaging . . . Meier's sophisticated debut promises further developments."-Publishers Weekly on Terrain VagueDomesticity, nature, and heartbreak inhabit this seriously... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Saul Beckman Publisher Comments "Nice Hat. Thanks." is an innovative book based on the recorded improvised poetic collaborations between two award-winning poets, Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. "Nice Hat. Thanks. "is a collection of transcriptions of these collaborations, with poems... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tamas Dobozy Publisher Comments When X Equals Marylou collects stories about photographers, balding men, ghost chasers, doppelgangers, bibliophiles and dystopian subversives, to name but a few. It's a mix not only of characters, but of time, and of worlds-moving from Russia to Hungary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Catherine Doty Publisher Comments Those moments in childhood that shape who we will become, and all that will come to define our lives, dominate the poems that Catherine Doty has collected in her debut volume. With humor, affection and a sharp awareness of the larger truths that can be... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jay Marvin Publisher Comments "Meet Jay Marvin, the first great crime writer of the 21st century" (Edward Bunker, author of "Dog Eat Dog"), who "dips his pen into warm blood and shattered bone and paints his unflinching view of how it is out there. An honest voice in an age of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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