The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
10 best books like The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster (Richard Brautigan): Sixty Stories, Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust, Two Serious Ladies, Selected Poems, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories, The Country Between Us, Collected Poems, 1947-1980, Jack, Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses, The Lime Twig
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0141180935 |
With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries...
Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 0811202151 |
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned to write the agony column, to answer the letters from Desperate, Sick-of-It-All, Disillusioned. A joke at first; but then he was caught up, terrifyingly, in a vision of suffering, and he sought...
| Author | Jane Bowles |
| ISBN | 0720611792 |
Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party.
Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, they go in search of salvation: Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the...
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of...
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 0060976713 |
I've been reading from The Complete Stories by Amy Hempel, one story collection at a time, while on vacation. This is the second one she wrote, and it is most unusual, interesting, and emotionally compelling. Some of these stories are as short as 1-2 pages, the longest being about 12 pages. She is very...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060909269 |
“Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called ‘political’ at the same time. This is a major new voice.” — Margaret Atwood
The Country Between Us opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Carolyn Forché...
| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0060914947 |
This is the dawn of a new age......in my reading life.
I finally finished this f%&$in' book!
I remember the moment I purchased this book - it was New Year's Eve 2007 (about to be 2008 and the GFC changed the vibe everywhere that next year I remember) in downtown Brisbane at Borders Bookstore...
| Author | A.M. Homes |
| ISBN | 1862076898 |
This is one of those books to which, if it were possible to give more than 5 stars on GR, I'd definitely give more than 5 stars. There wasn't a single thing about this book that I didn't like. From the narrator, to the writing style, to the exceptional humor and family drama, it was spectacularly executed...
| Author | José Martí |
| ISBN | 1558852042 |
I’ve read a handful of José Martí’s poems in the past (particularly those depicting his love of country and fight for independence), quoted a great deal of them in several of my Facebook posts, even loved and gotten heartbroken at the same time by a particular poem he wrote for his Guatemalan muse.....
| Author | John Hawkes |
| ISBN | 0811200655 |
An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind...
