I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation

5 best books like I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation (Francis Picabia): The City & the City, Willard and His Bowling Trophies, The White People and Other Weird Stories, The Assistant, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing

The City & the City

Author	China Miéville
ISBN	0345497511

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlú...

Willard and His Bowling Trophies

Author	Richard Brautigan
ISBN	0671220659

The story takes place in San Francisco in the early 1970s. The title character is a papier mache bird that shares the front room of an apartment with a collection of bowling trophies that some time earlier were stolen from the home of the Logan brothers. The human tenants of this apartment are John and Pat,...

The White People and Other Weird Stories

Author	Arthur Machen
ISBN	0143105590

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...

The Assistant

Author	Robert Walser
ISBN	0811215903

Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion,...

The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing

Author	Richard Brautigan
ISBN	0395974690

On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend....