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10 best books like Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away (Richard Brautigan): The Neon Wilderness, You Can't Catch Death, A Window on the Universe, The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction, Collected Stories, 1939-1976, The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History, The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, The Season of the Witch, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

The Neon Wilderness
AuthorNelson Algren
ISBN1583225501
Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs - The New York Times

Nelson's stories are part of our lasting literature. They don't fade away. - Studs Terkel, from the Afterword

Once more I have been impressed by Algren's talent, his probity and his...
You Can't Catch Death
AuthorIanthe Brautigan
ISBN0312264186
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,...
A Window on the Universe
AuthorJennifer Bassett
ISBN0194226948
What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities...
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
AuthorPaul Simpson
ISBN1843533871
This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your Jim Thompson, you''ll still find it hard to resist a book which tells you which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which world famous novelist...
Collected Stories, 1939-1976
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN0876853963
stunning. some of these stories really approach perfection. i read many of them about 10 years ago, but i reread every last one this summer and found no fault with any of them. bowles' tendency toward a concomitant sensitivity and roughness is irresistible, and i am very attracted by his ability to write...
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History
AuthorPhil Baker
ISBN0802139930
La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous "special" ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium,...
The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County
AuthorCyra McFadden
ISBN0394733614
"In Cyra McFadden's affluent San Francisco suburb, a health club is likely to be called a center for human potential. Her book The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County is a deadly satire on such pretensions.

The principal characters in this mock soap opera wander aimlessly from body to body...
The Season of the Witch
AuthorJames Leo Herlihy
ISBN0671209051
This almost read like a contemporary YA novel, albeit a YA novel written by Melanie. You forget how intense the late Sixties must have been, and how beautifully carried away people got, so many of them searching for a different system of living. Season Of The Witch is at times so dated that you feel both...
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
AuthorA.S. Byatt
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories exhibits the capacious and often capricious...
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
AuthorShane Harris
ISBN1594202451
An explosive look at the domestic agencies charged with spying on all of us.

Given recent terrorist events in the U.S. and the document leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Watchers is more timely than ever, drawing on access to political and operational insiders to create a brilliant...
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0141183020
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In The Total Library, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time...
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
AuthorWilliam Goldbloom Bloch
ISBN0195334574
"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within...
Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
AuthorAnn Charters
Literature is a conversation — between writers and other writers, and between writers and readers. In Literature and Its Writers, Ann and Samuel Charters complement a rich and varied selection of stories, poems, and plays with an unparalleled array of commentaries about that literature by the...
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0316082546
In 1964, Barthelme collected his early stories in Come Back, Dr. Caligari, for which he received considerable critical acclaim as an innovator of the short story form. His style (fictional and popular figures in absurd situations, e.g., the Batman-inspired "The Joker's Greatest Triumph"), spawned...
The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage
AuthorKingsley Amis
ISBN0312206577
A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, The King's English is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowler's Modern Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and brimming with the strong opinions and...
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature
AuthorAlan Kaufman
ISBN1560255501
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles...
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN1559702109
Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes....
Wing Chun Kung Fu: Traditional Chinese Kung Fu for Self-Defense and Health
AuthorIp Chun
ISBN0312187769
Straightforward and efficient, Wing Chun Kung Fu is one of the most popular forms of Kung Fu because it emphasizes techniqu over strength. By using the skills of Wing Chun Kung Fu, a smaller and weaker person can easily overcome a larger strong opponent. With its focus on technique rather than force,...
The Story of V: Opening Pandora's Box
AuthorCatherine Blackledge
ISBN0753817764
It is the seat of female sexual pleasure, and the passage for both the creation and the birth of humankind. Yet we know less about the vagina than we do about any other organ of the human body. Why? In this dazzling smorgasbord of facts about female genitalia, Catherine Blackledge explores how the vagina...
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
AuthorFinn Brunton
What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.

The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0679729518
”So far as I know, Goethe was the first writer or artist to become a Public Celebrity. There had always been poets, painters and composers who were known to and revered by their fellow artists, but the general public, however much it may have admired their works, would not have dreamed of wishing to make...
The Devil's Larder
AuthorJim Crace
ISBN0312420897
A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire

All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to both. Here are sixty-four short fictions...
Il giovane Holden - Franny e Zooey - Nove racconti - Alzate l'architrave, carpentieri e Seymour, introduzione
AuthorJ.D. Salinger
ISBN8806205536
Il giovane Holden: il libro che ha sconvolto il corso della letteratura contemporanea influenzando l'immaginario collettivo e stilistico del Novecento.

Franny e Zooey: una ragazza in crisi, un fratello che la vorrebbe aiutare, un programma radiofonico a cui partecipano, nel corso degli...
Anthropology
AuthorDan Rhodes
ISBN1841956147
101 LOVERS. 101 STORIES

Anthropology

I loved an anthropologist. She went to Mongolia to study the gays. At first she kept their culture at arm's length, but eventually she decided that her fieldwork would benefit from assimilation. She worked hard to become as much like them as possible,...
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