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9 best books like Daydream Nation (Matthew Stearns): The Witches Are Coming, Rusty Brown, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Year of the Monkey, Homesick for Another World, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Short Cuts: Selected Stories, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

The Witches Are Coming
AuthorLindy West
ISBN0316449881
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE’RE WITCHES,
AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo...
Rusty Brown
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0224078135
Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!

‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0679723056
I'll announce the cliche of my loving this book before you beat me to it.

I'm an overeducated, mock-contemplative early-twenty-something with a penchant for strong male voices (despite my feminist leanings) and a distaste for anything too sentimental. I was raised in the tradition of "Show,...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
Homesick for Another World
AuthorOttessa Moshfegh
ISBN0399562885
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.

There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1407247425
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
Short Cuts: Selected Stories
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0679748644
The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. From the collections Will...
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
AuthorBen Folds
ISBN1984817272
Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore...
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
AuthorJohn Hodgman
ISBN0525561102
A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land of being a somewhat famous person

After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...
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