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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by title | author The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill A Love Story . . . with Wings Mark Bittner Like a lot of young people in the 1970s, Mark Bittner took the path of the “dharma bum.” When the counterculture faded, Mark held on, seeking shelter in the nooks and crannies of San Francisco’s fabled bohemian neighborhood, North... The Art of Travel Alain de Botton Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the... How to Be Alone Essays Jonathan Franzen From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the... Indigenous Growing up Californian Cris Mazza Cris Mazza delivers a spirited rebuttal to pop-culture stereotypes about growing up female in Southern California. Coming of age in the 1970s and '80s, Mazza's memories aren't about surfing, cheerleading or riding in convertibles. Though her story... Reach for the Sun Selected Letters 1978 - 1994 Volume 3 Charles Bukowski Reach For the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski's letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag In l978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding... Door Wide Open A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958 Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous... San Francisco Beat Talking with the Poets David Meltzer San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and... Beerspit Night and Cursing The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 Charles Bukowski, Sheri Martinelli The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. You Can't Win Jack Black An amazing journey into the hobo underworld circa 1920. Jack Black takes his readers frieght-hopping around the still wide open West... The Continual Pilgrimage American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic... The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley Alex Haley, Malcolm X "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, and important book." THE NEW YORK TIMESIf there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malcolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the result... The Stiffest of the Corpse An Exquisite Corpse Reader Andrei Codrescu The Stiffest of the Corpse brings together the best of the radical journal of books and ideas that galvanized the tepid literary world of the 1980s. Talk, erudition and savagery join here for a truly international assault on a mass hypnosis and image... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>