The Residue Years
10 best books like The Residue Years (Mitchell S. Jackson): Mink River, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, Women, Race, and Class, The Friend, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense, A Prayer for the Dying, The Norton Anthology of American Literature: American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C), The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels, And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry
| Author | Brian Doyle |
| ISBN | 0870715852 |
Like Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" and Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio, " Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery...
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
| Author | Bridgett M. Davis |
| ISBN | 0316558737 |
Set against the backdrop of Detroit in the 1960's and 1970's, the story of the life of a one-of-a-kind matriarch whose business in the Numbers made her daughter's dreams come true.
The World According to Fannie Davis is Bridgett Davis's unforgettable coming of age in a family with a secret....
| Author | Angela Y. Davis |
| ISBN | 0394713516 |
Incisive and concise, Women, Race, and Class charts the history of racial and gender oppression in America. In lucid prose Angela Davis breaks down how misogyny, racism, and classism have shaped the character of the nation’s social life from the Antebellum Era to the Sixties. She pays special attention...
| Author | Sigrid Nunez |
| ISBN | 0735219451 |
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute...
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
| Author | Anthony Bourdain |
| ISBN | 1582344515 |
New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from...
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876856830 |
Man, I wish you guys could see how banged-up and dog-eared my copy of "You Get So Alone" is. I think that's the only way I can do this collection justice. The poet as an older man lacks the vinegar and vitriol of his younger self, but being eight years from his death certainly infused these poems with the magnetic...
| Author | Stewart O'Nan |
| ISBN | 0312255012 |
this book is like boiling milk. at first, everything is nice and serene - a calm pool of pure silken whiteness. and then it starts to shimmer a little bit and you know things are happening, and you start to notice little bloopy bits of activity, but you don't want to stir it just yet. steam starts to rise from...
| Author | Nina Baym |
| ISBN | 0393978990 |
Why Norton? I'm glad you asked, friend! There are many schools of thought on anthologies, some negative, some positive, all fascinating. Of course, if you're buying this because it's a university textbook then really you have no choice; for the rest of us, there's more than meets the eye.
The...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0679722599 |
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover...
| Author | Mike Sacks |
| ISBN | 1582975051 |
Writers who specialize in humor, who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words, are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. In this entertaining and inspirational book you'll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy writing process, their influences, their likes and...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0735217920 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
