Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

7 best books like Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (John McMillian): Fledgling, The Space Merchants, Dead Man's Walk, The Botticelli Secret, When Worlds Collide, María, Joe Gould's Teeth

Fledgling

Author	Octavia E. Butler
ISBN	0446696161

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her...

The Space Merchants

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0575075287

An alternate cover edition can be found here.

It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers...

Dead Man's Walk

Author	Larry McMurtry
ISBN	0684857545

Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers,...

The Botticelli Secret

Author	Marina Fiorato
ISBN	0312606362

In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli...

When part-time model and full-time prostitute Luciana Vetra...

When Worlds Collide

Author	Philip Wylie
ISBN	0803298145

A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to...

María

Author	Jorge Isaacs
ISBN	8437606101

Desde su publicacion en Bogota (1867) las ediciones de Maria se han multiplicado a lo largo del XIX y del XX. Esencialmente romantica, tiene, sin embargo, elementos realistas y costumbristas que evidencian el interes de su autor por el habla popular. Junto a claras reminiscencias literarias aparecen...

Joe Gould's Teeth

Author	Jill Lepore
ISBN	1101947586

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”

Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...