Doris: An Anthology, 1991-2001
10 best books like Doris: An Anthology, 1991-2001 (Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Cantoras, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Dear Committee Members, Dykes to Watch Out For, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource, On Subbing: The First Four Years, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine, Buddy Bradley, Vol. 1: Hey, Buddy!
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525541330 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
| Author | Carolina De Robertis |
| ISBN | 0525521690 |
"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution--and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again--either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story."--Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
| Author | Julie Schumacher |
| ISBN | 0385538138 |
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,...
| Author | Alison Bechdel |
| ISBN | 0932379176 |
All of the Dykes to Watch out For books came into my store. Or, like, the first ten or so. So fine, FINE, I'm gonna get over myself and admit that I have such a bad book crush on Alison Bechdel and ALSO that maybe I can have a sense of humor about what a fuckin lezzie I am. So.
So this first one is weird because...
Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus
| Author | Aaron Cometbus |
| ISBN | 0867195614 |
aaron cometbus is a punk's punk. he scrounges for food in dumpsters, scams his way around the US on greyhound, slips in and out of punkhouses and seems to live off nothing more than coffee and cigarettes. he has the eye of a sociologist and the soul of a poet and the haircut of a fool. inside this book you will...
| Author | Alex Wrekk |
| ISBN | 0972696725 |
When this book came in the mail, it was delivered in a shipping envelope from the author, and the only thing I really knew about it is what Sage told me. It really was not what I expected at all. This is like the cutest little book ... ever. It's small, like the size of my hand. When you see it, your first thought...
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating, tales of woe from working as a substitute teaching assistant in Portland's elementary schools in the early 2000s. He writes about the good days and the terrible ones, helping kids who can't...
A compilation of the first nine issues of the author’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine, this volume reflects the do-it-yourself attitude of the 1990s punk music scene and includes humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, and nuanced descriptions of odd locales...
Buddy Bradley, Vol. 1: Hey, Buddy!
| Author | Peter Bagge |
| ISBN | 1560971134 |
In this book, Buddy shows the reader round the cheap Seattle apartment he shares with two roommates, works in a second-hand bookstore from which he steals on a regular basis to develop his personal collection, is inconveniently visited by his violent younger brother, picks up a freebie from a grumpy...
Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism
| Author | Alison Piepmeier |
| ISBN | 0814767516 |
With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
| Author | Suzy Hopkins |
| ISBN | 1632869683 |
A mother’s advice to her daughter—a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime—with full-color illustrations throughout.
One sleepless night while she was in her early twenties, illustrator/writer Hallie Bateman had a painful realization: Someday, her mother would be...
