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sort list by title | author Astragal A Novel Albertine Sarrazin When published in the 1960s this book made a star of its author, and it's not hard to see why. Sarrazin, a Morrocan orphan drawn to the low life, was referred to in the French press as the "female Genet." This is a romantic, desperate outlaw adventure... The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner Kushner's writing is authoritative and vivid, as exciting to read as the worlds she writes about. I could not put this down; it was intoxicating reading about a young woman making her way in worlds in which women don't usually get to exist, even in... Speedboat A Novel Renata Adler This reads like a walk through a particularly outrageous dinner party—overheard intellectual chatter, salacious gossip, and mundane offhand remarks swirl around, reigned in by a cool narrator who perhaps most evokes Didion at her driest, wit-wise. Heroines Kate Zambreno "ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological," writes Zambreno. "When he does, it's existential." Heroines is a feminist rescue story, a trip back in time to commune with Zelda Fitzgerald, Jane Bowles and Vivienne Eliot, the forgotten wives... Out of the Vinyl Deeps Ellen Willis on Rock Music Ellen Willis, Nona Willis Aronowitz Ellen Willis captures the excitement, danger and kicks inherent in the 60s and 70s NY music scene, creating a passageway back to a long gone era with insights that are disarming, politically charged, and hilarious, while at the same time transmitting...