The Last Days of Video
10 best books like The Last Days of Video (Jeremy Hawkins): Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, The Feral Detective, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Whale Talk, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story, Maelstrom, Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things, New York Dead, My Abandonment
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
| Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| ISBN | 0465026567 |
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0062859080 |
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She's on a quest to find her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don't want to be found. A loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer,...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
| Author | Peniel E. Joseph |
| ISBN | 0805075399 |
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin...
| Author | Chris Crutcher |
| ISBN | 0440229383 |
There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school...
| Author | Amy Franklin-Willis |
| ISBN | 0802120059 |
With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one Southern working-class family. Driven by the soulful voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian, The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to 1980s as it follows...
| Author | Joan Wickersham |
| ISBN | 0307958884 |
“Joan Wickersham’s brilliant The News From Spain shows, in all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do. The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they speak to each other is truly extraordinary.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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| Author | Peter Watts |
| ISBN | 0812566793 |
An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America....
Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
| Author | Courtenay Hameister |
| ISBN | 0316395706 |
The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding.
(Cheryl Strayed)
For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay...
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he's on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his...
| Author | Peter Rock |
| ISBN | 0151014140 |
A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, the enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. There they inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, bathe in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts....
