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10 best books like In the Hand of Dante (Nick Tosches): Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tijuana Straits, Satan Wants Me, The Iron Grail, It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, Semiotext(e) SF, The Horned Man, The Essential Lenny Bruce, Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
AuthorTom Robbins
"As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end."--Buffalo News

Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian...
Tijuana Straits
AuthorKem Nunn
ISBN0743279824
From Kem Nunn, the National Book Award-nominated author of Tapping the Source and The Dogs of Winter, comes an exquisitely written tale of loss and redemption. Nunn renders the dangerous beaches and waters of California's borderland as only the critically acclaimed poet laureate of surf noir can,...
Satan Wants Me
AuthorRobert Irwin
ISBN0747551650
Satan Wants Me is fundamentally risqué, murky and trippy black comedy of black magic…
After queuing for about twenty minutes, I secured my own copy of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. The sleeve gave me a start, for there, standing towards the left in the Beatles’ fantasy entourage,...
The Iron Grail
AuthorRobert Holdstock
ISBN0765349876
After long travels, Merlin has returned to Alba, the future England. Likewise, Urtha, High King of the Cornovidi, is coming home as well. And Jason is sailing in on the Argo, to seek his son who hides somewhere in the kingdom.

But Urtha's stronghold has been taken by warriors from Ghostland....
It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen
AuthorEric Alterman
ISBN0316039179
Amongst his other books, Eric Alterman’s “It Ain’t No Sin to be Glad You’re Alive: the Promise of Bruce Springsteen” stands as the odd one out. While all other books in his bibliography cover political, historical and social topics, Alterman’s biography on American rocker Bruce Springsteen...
Semiotext(e) SF
AuthorRudy Rucker
ISBN0936756438
This unruly anthology of self-consciously transgressive fiction came out in 1989 and... it shows. In some good ways—there's so much enthusiasm! Collage art and poetry and short stories and autobiographical essays... such a wide range of content! Explicit sex and violence and scatological musings,...
The Horned Man
AuthorJames Lasdun
ISBN0393324389
The Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller—an English expatriate and professor of gender studies—tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series...
The Essential Lenny Bruce
AuthorJohn Cohen
ISBN0333455029
I have a story which I think really shows the essential Lenny Bruce although it's not in this, or any other book.

I was editing one of Jay Landesman's many manuscripts at the time and we were talking about his St Louis nightclub, the Crystal Palace and how Barbra Streisand got discovered. Jay told...
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0060926112
Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howl is the poet's own re-creation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary...
Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics
AuthorLou Reed
ISBN1562829939
Great of course, but you should get the records first, they sometimes have the words printed in the booklet or on the inner sleeve, so you can save yourself some money. 'The Ostrich', for one, is not included, so subtract a star right there (no 'You're Driving Me Insane' or other Pickwick Years stuff either...
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
AuthorSusan Buck-Morss
ISBN0262523310
Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and an analytical concept, Susan Buck-Morss attempts to come to terms with mass dreamworlds at the moment of their passing.

The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia....
Bitch Creek
AuthorWilliam G. Tapply
ISBN1592287654
William G. Tapply has created a fresh new world in BITCH CREEK, a steamy, perfectly crafted mystery introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero. Stoney is a man without a past. A lightning strike obliterated his memory, and, as so many might like to do, he was given a chance to completely reinvent himself....
The Play of Flowers for Algernon
AuthorBert Coules
ISBN9780435232
I really, really loved this. The writing was brilliant as reflected by Charlie's progress reports, detailing his transition from a person of low intelligence to supreme intelligence coming back full circle to his original state of mind. His records of his mental deterioration were moving to say the...
A Trança de Inês
AuthorRosa Lobato de Faria
ISBN9724125505
Baseado no mito de Pedro e Inês (mais na lenda do que na História), um romance sobre a intemporalidade da paixão, onde se abordam também alguns mistérios da existência. Assim as mulheres passam umas às outras a sua teia ancestral de seduções, subentendidos, receitas que hão-de prender os...
Edge
AuthorThomas Blackthorne
ISBN0007349718
This disappointed. I've heard others' excitement about this publisher (Angry Robot) and the blurb for this sounded fantastic, a blurb that caused me to lay down a Don LaFontaine voice as I read it with certain words and phrases punching out - knives!, duel!, blood!, hell!, legalised (because we're...
Autumn Cthulhu
AuthorMike Davis
H.P. Lovecraft, the American master of horror, understood with horrible clarity that all things must die. After summer is winter, and life inevitably gives way to frozen sterility. In our modern world, we live cushioned existences, and congratulate ourselves on our supposed escape from the old dangers....
The Mocking Program
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen murdered corpses like George Anderson's, but never a case like this. The victim's ID doesn't match his DNA, Anderson's wife and preteen daughter, Katla, are missing, their home has been turned into a time bomb-and mobs from three continents are all hunting Katla....
Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World
AuthorDouglas Hunter
A bold new account of explorer Henry Hudson and the discovery that changed the course of history.

The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and...
The Grenadillo Box
AuthorJanet Gleeson
ISBN0743246861
New Year's Day, 1755 The life of Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman to the illustrious cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, is about to take a chilling turn. He has been sent to Cambridge to install a new library at the country home of Lord Montfort. Moments after the foul-tempered Montfort storms away from...
A Question of Guilt: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Death of Henry Darnley
AuthorJulianne Lee
ISBN0425223515
A rich, compelling novel that asks the question: Was Mary Stuart guilty of murder?

It is three days after the execution of Mary Stuart and the streets of London are buzzing with the news. But not everyone is convinced that the scandalized Queen of Scots was guilty of plotting against her cousin,...
The Mad Monk of Gidleigh
AuthorMichael Jecks
ISBN0755301692
Alone in his isolated, windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor, his only companions moor men and poverty–stricken serfs, who could blame the young priest, Mark for seeking affection from Jane, the local miller’s daughter? But when Jane’s body is found brutally stabbed, Mark is the obvious...
Gnostic Mystery
AuthorRandy Davila
ISBN0981877109
An ancient mystery in today's Middle East . . . Jack Stanton, an American businessman, makes a pilgrimage to war-torn Israel in hopes of rekindling his Christian faith. While traveling with his friend Punjeeh, an ER doctor from Jerusalem, Jack acquires an ancient scroll written by the Gnostics, a mystical...
The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism
AuthorRobert B. Reich
ISBN0679736158
There is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book.  What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders?  What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can our country best ensure that all its...
For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
AuthorJames Yee
ISBN1586483692
In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a frequent government spokesman, helping to educate soldiers about Islam and build understanding throughout the military....
The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)
AuthorThe New Yorker
ISBN1400064740
EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE
ON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS.
"A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine."
What has the "New Yorker" said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing,...
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