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On Subbing: The First Four Years On Subbing: The First Four Years
by Dave

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Dave is a substitute teacher in Portland and tells his tales of woe. He goes to work not knowing what the day holds and tries to make the best out of it when people make fun of his glasses or threaten to fight him. He helps kids with their homework and... (read more)

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Make a Zine!: When Words and Graphics Collide Make a Zine!: When Words and Graphics Collide
by Bill Brent

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Ask anyone who works for a magazineait's a job. Ask anyone who works on their zineait's a passion. This book is destined to be the starting point of self-publishing. You will find the answers to virtually any question you have regarding how to make zines.... (read more)

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Hymn California Hymn California
by Adam Gnade

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Born and raised in San Diego, California, Adam Gnade enjoys swimming in rivers and lakes, driving at night, and drinking red wine out of mason jars. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with two rescued pit bulls and considers himself a better than... (read more)

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Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus
by Aaron Cometbus

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Collected here are selections from the first twenty years of Cometbus; including the ultra-rare intros, notes, and a scrapbook.... (read more)

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Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring
by Zach Plague

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A mysterious gray book drives Ollister and Adelaide’s twisted po-mo relationship. When it goes missing, they go nuts: he plots revenge against art patriarch The Platypus while she obsesses over their anti-love affair. Meanwhile, the other art... (read more)

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Wide Eyed (Little House on the Bowery) Wide Eyed (Little House on the Bowery)
by Trinie Dalton

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In Trinie Dalton's tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, and Pavement are daily occurrences. Animals also populate this book; beavers, hamsters, salamanders, black... (read more)

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You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths
by Russell Kick

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You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more)

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Everything You Know is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies Everything You Know is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
by Russ Kick

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This book begins where You Are Being Lied Toleft off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what's really happening. Hard, documented evidence... (read more)

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Double Duce Double Duce
by Aaron Cometbus

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What Kerouac was to the Beat generation, Aaron Cometbus is to the punk scene in Berkeley, California. In this first novel, his slacker kids ponder life's mundane questions with the seriousness of ancient philosophers: how to get by on no money, where to... (read more)

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Mostly True: The Story of Bozo Texino Mostly True: The Story of Bozo Texino
by Bill Daniel

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In this companion book to the film "Who Is Bozo Texino" (shot entirely aboard speeding freight trains), Daniel mixes experimental and documentary to provide a captivating look at a little-known art form--hobo boxcar graffiti . Tracing the origins to... (read more)

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #15: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 15 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #15: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 15
by Mcsweeneys

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Issue 15 is also known as the "Icelandic Issue." Printed in Iceland, half of the stories are written by actual Icelandic writers. And the kicker? It also comes with an Icelandic tabloid mini-mag filled with words you won't understand and images that... (read more)

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The Televisionary Oracle The Televisionary Oracle
by Rob Brezsny

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A cult of shamanistic women sets out to dismantle the myth of the apocalypse in this genre-spanning tale of kidnap, lust, and menstruation.... (read more)

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501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays 501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays
by Poe Ballantine

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Poe Ballantine's second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine's world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author's by... (read more)

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Things I Like about America: Personal Narratives Things I Like about America: Personal Narratives
by Poe Ballantine

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In a style reminiscent of David Sedaris, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Scott Carrier, these true stories of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer chronicle Ballantine's search for America as he rides the Greyhound bus from small town... (read more)

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Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness
by Amy L. Clark and Elizabeth Ellen and Kathy Fish and Claudia Smith

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This impressive anthology collects four of the best under-the-radar female writers of this decade. Each one presents a section of tight, angular, brave, funny, and innovative flash fictions. Clark writes explosive, playful brain candy. Ellen's work is... (read more)

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Mad Love (French Modernist Library) Mad Love (French Modernist Library)
by Andre Breton

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"Mad Love" has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy... (read more)

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Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
by Clint Catalyst

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Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person. Clint Catalyst (Cottonmouth Kisses) and Michelle Tea (The Chelsea Whistle) bring together what can only be described as a dream cast of literature's new avant-garde, sandwiched... (read more)

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The Beautiful: Collected Poems The Beautiful: Collected Poems
by Michelle Tea

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"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."-The San Francisco Bay Guardian Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative... (read more)

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The Big Book of Hoaxes: True Tales of the Greatest Lies Ever Told! (Factoid Books) The Big Book of Hoaxes: True Tales of the Greatest Lies Ever Told! (Factoid Books)
by Carl Sifakis

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True tales of the greatest lies ever told.... (read more)

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Shock Treatment Shock Treatment
by Karen Finley

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Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire,""We Keep Our Victims Ready,""It's Only Art,"and "The Black Sheep."Excoriating misogyny, homophobia... (read more)

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