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The Big One
by David Kinney“The Big One is a rollicking true story of a grand American obsession. You don’t have to be a fisherman to relish David Kinney’s marvelous account of the annual striper…
Indian Journals
by Allen Ginsberg“Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.” –Bob Dylan…
The Everlasting Stream
by Walt Harrington“A familiar American story, beautifully told in a fresh light. We need to hear this story again and again, until, like Harrington, we realize that most of what we need…
Endpapers
by Alexander WolffA sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff
Little Savage
by Emily Fragos“This is not an adjunct poetry collection, but a magically essential one. . . . Fragos uses metaphors to cast spells.” –Benjamin Ivy, American Book Review…
A Place to Stand
by Jimmy Santiago Baca…me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . . . This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison…
Pedro Páramo
by Juan RulfoSoon to be an original film coming to Netflix in Fall 2024, directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American…
Beyond Innocence
by Phoebe Zerwick…lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the realities of the American justice system at every level…
Storming Heaven
by Jay Stevens“Fascinating . . . The most compelling account yet of how these hallucinogenic, or psychedelic, drugs became an explosive force in postwar American history.” –Newsweek…