Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
10 best books like Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan (William Hjortsberg): You Can't Catch Death, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, Walt Whitman: Words for America, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860, Hemingway: A Biography, 501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays, Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs, Call Me Burroughs: A Life, The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
| Author | Ianthe Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0312264186 |
In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous,...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 0547595964 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0439357918 |
The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero.
Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing...
| Author | Richard Slotkin |
| ISBN | 0806132299 |
In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim...
| Author | Jeffrey Meyers |
| ISBN | 0306808900 |
Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom...
| Author | Poe Ballantine |
| ISBN | 0976631199 |
Poe Ballantine’s second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine’s world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author’s by turns absurd and poignant voice....
| Author | Ceiridwen Terrill |
| ISBN | 1451634811 |
Part Wild is the unforgettable story of Ceiridwen Terrill's journey with a creature whose heart is divided between her bond to one woman and her need to roam free. When Terrill adopts a wolfdog—part husky, part gray wolf—named Inyo to be her protector and fellow traveler, she is drawn to Inyo’s...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 1455511951 |
Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0224619330 |
Brautigan's poetic style is often surreal, often tender, with touches of humor. The poems are written in clear, straightforward free verse. Here is an example of his style from "The Chinese Checker Players": "When I was six years old/I played Chinese checkers/with a woman/who was ninety-three years...
| Author | Michael Kinch |
| ISBN | 1681777517 |
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing—cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children.
Between...
| Author | Scott W. Berg |
| ISBN | 0307377245 |
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution,...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0375501029 |
The cover of a new book about juvenile crime made me pause. It's called "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent," by James Garbarino (Free Press). On the front are two sweet looking kids about eight years old. One's holding a shotgun to the other's head.
In a period of rapidly falling crime rates,...
| Author | Emmett Grogan |
| ISBN | 0806511680 |
"Ringolevio" is the memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas anti masters and masters of street theater who made San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury a home, putting on Grateful Dead dances in Golden Gate Park, ladling out free stew to all comers in the park's Panhandle,...
| Author | Anne C. Heller |
| ISBN | 0385513992 |
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian...
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
| Author | Stanley Crouch |
| ISBN | 0062005596 |
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.
Throughout...
| Author | Steve Lowenthal |
| ISBN | 1613745192 |
John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel-string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and experimental...
Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the '60s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerless...
