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    National Melancholy
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    National Melancholy

    In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
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  • Early Levy
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    Early Levy

    Back in print at last, two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah LevyBEAUTIFUL MUTANTS Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly...
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  • Literary Eats Literary Eats
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    Literary Eats

    This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book...
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  • Dustjacket Flowers Dustjacket Flowers
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    Dustjacket Flowers

    "Pablo D'Stair is defining the new writer. There is NO ONE else. As reckless as Kerouac's 120-foot trace paper, D'Stair's independence from all of us needs to be studied and celebrated." (TONY...
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  • West of the West
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    West of the West

    Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically...
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  • Overtime: Selected Poems
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    Overtime: Selected Poems

    Like his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the...
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  • Tau & Journey to the End
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    Tau & Journey to the End

    Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his...
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  • Dreams of Blues Dreams of Blues
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    Dreams of Blues

    Dreams of Blues is the first publication by poet Anthony M. Barajas. A selection of poetry chosen by the author expands from 1990 to early 2005. The author's poetry is inspired by Jack Kerouac, Allen...
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  • Seclusion Vol. 1 Seclusion Vol. 1
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    Seclusion Vol. 1

    Henry Carrillo III is a 21-year-old writer from central California. As a student in school, he despised literature and writing but as he grew older, he discovered the art of writing as a form of...
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  • River of Perfumes River of Perfumes
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    River of Perfumes

    Post World War II America and teenage boys dreamed of adventure growing up in the 1950s, listened to Elvis Presley and read Jack Kerouac, yet it wasn't cruising Route 66 in a Corvette that united...
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    Naked Lens
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    Naked Lens

    Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the...
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  • The Last Road Trip The Last Road Trip
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    The Last Road Trip

    When professional photographer Brett Tempest takes one last motorcycle trip across the United States to shoot the final pictures for a book of Americana, he meets with unexpected surprises. Not only...
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  • Fast Cars and Bad Girls Fast Cars and Bad Girls
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    Fast Cars and Bad Girls

    Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories explores the road narratives of women and the various ways their work re-maps American space. Moving from Mary Rowlandson's famous...
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  • Palimpsest: A Memoir
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    Palimpsest: A Memoir

    This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind...
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  • The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
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    The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry...
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    POOLHALL JAIL LIBRARY

    Maniacal, darkly humorous and shocking; Poolhall - Jail - Library is a turbulent ride.A captivating true-life story, told through the eyes of mother and son, lifting the lid on what really...
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  • Princes Amongst Men
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    Princes Amongst Men

    Wide-ranging, irreverent and humorous, packed with fascinating – and sometimes tragic – details on lands and people who are rarely heard from.Princes Amongst Men is the only book to provide an...
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  • Omar T in San Francisco Omar T in San Francisco
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    Omar T in San Francisco

    In the tradition of a light-hearted contemporary mystery novel, enter the son of a restaurateur and an artist, Mr. Omar T Black. He is a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, with passions for women,...
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  • The Transnational Beat Generation The Transnational Beat Generation
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    The Transnational Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation writers and artists are typically identified as an American movement. Yet travel, Buddhism, drug experimentation, and European surrealism and romanticism were an integral part of...
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  • Crying for a Vision and Other Essays Crying for a Vision and Other Essays
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    Crying for a Vision and Other Essays

    In Crying for a Vision, British-born poet, musician and performance artist Steve Scott offers a challenge to artists and a manifesto for the arts. This new edition includes an introduction and study...
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  • Høney Rider Høney Rider
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    Høney Rider

    || ABOUT THE NOVEL || When Henry Nighteen wakes from an epileptic coma to discover that his sweetheart, Honey Rider, is dead, he must write his way out of a maze of drug addiction and amnesia to...
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    Harvard Psychedelic Club

    “[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac,...
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  • Fashioning Character Fashioning Character
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    Fashioning Character

    It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged...
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  • S'enfermer dans une cabane et écrire S'enfermer dans une cabane et écrire
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    S'enfermer dans une cabane et écrire

    Désormais mort et donc fantôme, l'écrivain américain Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), immortel (quoique...) auteur de Sur la route, décide de revoir un inoublié amour de jeunesse. Mêmes les revenants sont...
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    The Twilight of Romanticism

    The Twilight of Romanticsm is a fascinating account of the lives and literature of French Bohemian poets and writers of the Beat Generation in 1950's America. Beginning in 19th century France, every...
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  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity
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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity follows the travels of Matt Hoffman as he confronts one hilarious scenario after another. While reconnecting with uproarious characters from his past and...
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    Marco Polo Didn't Go There

    Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his...
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  • Endangered Species
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    Endangered Species

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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  • Howl, and Other Poems Howl, and Other Poems
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    Howl, and Other Poems

    "Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled "Howl and Other Poems." Ginsberg began work on "Howl" as early as 1954. "Howl" is...
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    Palimpsest: A Memoir

    Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist,...
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  • Streams
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    Streams

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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  • Road Stories Road Stories
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    Road Stories

    "His writing shines in descriptive passages, showing his love of travel and landscapes . . ."                    --Publishers WeeklyIn 1972, Ed...
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  • Playing Tahoe
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    Playing Tahoe

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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  • Happiness Is Too Much Trouble
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    Happiness Is Too Much Trouble

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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  • Chasing Hairy Chasing Hairy
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    Chasing Hairy

    CHASING HAIRY is a brutal, profoundly disturbing portrait of two young men who meet as college students and develop a close, complex friendship whose underlying basis is the shared but unconscious...
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  • St. James Infirmary St. James Infirmary
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    St. James Infirmary

    a book of short stories by Steven MeloanSteven Meloan's writing has been seen in Wired, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles, BUZZ, the San Francisco Chronicle, and SF Weekly. His fiction has...
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  • Hip Sublime Hip Sublime
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    Hip Sublime

    Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their...
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  • Novel Destinations, Second Edition
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    Novel Destinations, Second Edition

    Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful...
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  • The Dead Beat Scroll The Dead Beat Scroll
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    The Dead Beat Scroll

    Private investigator August Riordan returns to San Francisco to avenge the death of his friend and one-time partner, Chris Duckworth. Duckworth has taken over Riordan's old business, his old office...
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    Big Waves & Wooden Benches

    What if you curated the perfect life, only to have it crumble?What if in that rubble, you begin to question everything?When all you thought you were is stripped away, how do you find yourself once...
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  • Too Much Poison Too Much Poison
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    Too Much Poison

    Praise for Too Much Poison ?[William J. Donahue] murders it here, folks, goes deep and scores multiple times poking the underbelly of the human condition. An excellent read.? ?C.G. Bauer, author of...
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  • Raising Mama Raising Mama
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    Raising Mama

    This is the story of the music, politics and culture during a seminal period of the ''baby boom'', 1958-1962. It''s an often hilarious story told from a most unlikely point of view; a precocious...
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  • HIRAETH. HIRAETH.
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    HIRAETH.

    The Main Character (Welsh, Virgo, ENTP, emo, 32, M) abandons the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teacher to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a...
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  • Kid Lightning and the Wave of Peace Kid Lightning and the Wave of Peace
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    Kid Lightning and the Wave of Peace

    My life has been driven by a need for intense stimulation and risk, fuelled by a sense of grandeur. Kid Lightning and the Wave of Peace is a 90,000 word memoir about my first 30 years, conveyed in a...
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  • Maximum Feasible Participation
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    Maximum Feasible Participation

    This book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action...
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