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  Me Talk Pretty One Day

  by David Sedaris

  A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as... (more)
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  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. Reedited by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs's... (more)
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  American Falls

  The Collected Short Stories

  by Barry Gifford

  From the award-winning author of Night People, Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, and Wyoming comes this wide-ranging group of darkly satiric stories. Included is "The Big Love of Cherry Layne," "Room 584, The Starr Hotel," "A Fair Price," and the novella, "The Lonely and the Lost."
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  Good Friday (X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Ser)

  by Philip Heldrich

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  Suits Me The Double Life of Billy Tipton

  by Diane Wood Middlebrook

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  Gospel Truths

  by J. G. Sandom

  They have been drawn into a plot more insidious than anything they could have imagined—a battle to control one of religion’s greatest secrets. For English detective Nigel Lyman, it begins with the suspicious suicide of a corrupt Italian banker in London. For French-born Mariane Soury-Fontaine, it starts with the mysterious disappearance of her lover. And for American mathematician Joseph Koster, the search leads... (more)
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  Rhetoric of the Contemporary Lyric

  by Jonathan. Holden

  Indiana University Press, 1980. Hardcover.
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  Out Here In The Out There: Essays In A Region Of Superlatives (First Series: Creative Nonfiction)

  by Philip Heldrich

  Poet and pop-culture aficionado Heldrich searches for the lyrical within his small midwestern meatpacking town and beyond. For Heldrich, lover of words, there is beauty to be found at the local dump: magazines ( Kansas Farmer ), discarded beverage bottles ("Golden Sound Basil Seed Drink"), even machine names (the "cram-a-lot" baler is a favorite). The resulting essays are a happy melding of social commentary with... (more)
• Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, including Portions of his Souvenirs A

  

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  Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, including Portions of his Souvenirs A