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You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive Agitprop and artistry mingle in this scrapbook-style collection of Seth Tobocman's art and...	Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson Best Price: $3.99 "Going to Heaven" is less a biography or life of its subject, the first openly-Gay...	The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman Best Price: $5.29 Dr. Rost knows what he's talking about and he knows about the ways in which whistleblowers -...	Under My Roof (Soft Skull ShortLit) Best Price: $0.92 Nick Mamatas, Under My Roof (Soft Skull Press, 2007) Nick Mamatas returns with his first...	Did I Wake You?: Haikus for Modern Living Best Price: $0.94 You know that great feeling when you're looking at birthday cards (or cards for other...



Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam Best Price: $6.38 This is a lively book of literary history--a mix of interviews, historical background, and funny...	The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles Best Price: $0.01 I've been in retail more years than I care to remember, so I received this book from a...	Medusa's Daughter (Narrative, Ink.)	American Genius: A Comedy Lynne Tillman s previous novels have won her both popular approval and critical praise from such...	Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poet



The City in Crimson Cloak Best Price: $0.01 Özgür is poor, hungry, and on the verge of a mental breakdown, with only one weapon...	Mercury Under My Tongue: A Novel Best Price: $0.01 Frederic is a 16 year old boy who has end-stage bone cancer, and he spends his last days in his...	A Disjointed Search for the Will to Live; Foreword By Robin D. G. Kelley, Afterword By Marc Salotte, a Word for an Elder By Idris Alaoma	Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull ShortLit) A new entry in Soft Skull's ShortLit series, Jane tells the spectral story of the life and...	How to Be Inappropriate Dry, offbeat, and mostly profane, this debut collection of humorous nonfiction glorifies all...

Death Wish (Deep Focus) Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest...	Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in a series of...	How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power -- First 1st Edition	Raven Days: Thirty-Nine Poems	All About Lulu Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son Best Price: $14.95 I purchased Wise's book as I wanted to get familiar with the opposing viewpoint; see how the...	Lost in the Supermarket: An Indie Rock Cookbook Historically, a love of cooking has been left to those considered far from cool: suburbanite...	Lux the Poet There is something about Lux. He?s a thief and a liar; he is selfish and self-absorbed and...	China Underground At the beginning of the 21st century, it is hard to imagine a place more exciting than China....	No More Prisons Best Price: $3.02 Author William Upski Wimsatt covers a truly remarkable array of topics and perspectives, all...

The Breaking Manager Best Price: $4.21	Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and about the Police Best Price: $4.99 A wonderful collection of poems reflecting a wide spectrum of feelings about the police. A...	Painful But Fabulous: The Life and Art of Genesis P-Orridge --provided one is still capable of inspiration and cares to have eye or I opened. If so, this...	Before, During, and After: Poems Best Price: $8.53 If you're not familiar with the poetry of Hal Sirowitz, just imagine a Woody Allen of...	Free Agents: A History of Washington, D.C. Graffiti Having suffered at the visual diarrhea that these low-level criminals and thugs threw up...

The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman Best Price: $8.75 A number of books critical of the pharmaceutical industry have recently been published, but none...	Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground Best Price: $7.71 Edited by the coauthors of the notorious zine The Guerrilla Graywater Girls Guide to Water, ...	Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex This is pretty gripping and interesting and most of the stories you read, you'll wish they...	Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: And Other Plays Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his controversial debut work ...	A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America

The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison?s phonograph has been...	All About Lulu: A Novel Best Price: $3.08 When his mother dies, seven-year-old vegetarian William Miller stops growing. His father, a...	Lascivious Something/Roadkill Confidential/That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play: Three Plays Best Price: $7.59	jrnls80s - Poems, Lyrics, Letters, Observations, Wordplay and Postcards from the Early Days of Sonic Youth Best Price: $7.59 this book is amazing... reflections on life, love, loss and highways. as lee says, you cant...	Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President Best Price: $1.50 Like many readers, I expected "Fortunate Son" to provide a shocking exposé...

Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End Best Price: $6.98 Having read (and enjoyed) Jocko Weyland's "The Answer Is Never," I was very much...	Electric Flesh: A Novel Best Price: $5.06 Howard Hordinary is convinced that he?s the bastard grandchild of Harry Houdini. An unemployed...	The Good Fairies of New York Best Price: $3.50 I ended up having a truly remarkable experience with this book that was almost spiritual. It...	Supermodel Best Price: $6.85 SUPERMODEL is a consummately contemporary poem - a 21st century multimedia cocktail in both form...	The Amputee's Guide to Sex Best Price: $11.95 Weise, Jillian. The Amputee's Guide to Sex. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2007. The idea...

America's Mayor, America's President?: The Strange Career of Rudy Giuliani Best Price: $0.82 Rudy Giuliani?s admirably flinty response to the horrifying events of 9/11 made him a national...	The Sleeping Father Best Price: $12.45	Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged...	Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War "Tea" is a fairly good description of recent Sri Lankan history on its ride down the...	For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War Superficial at best, 6 weeks is not nearly enough time to get even a basic knowledge of one of...

Bummer: And Other Stories The women featured in these stories have one thing in common: They?re having a terrible day. ...	Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists—not fictional ones like the...	We are Iran	The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (Deep Focus) Best Price: $7.25 In 1977, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training had a moment in the sun. A glowing junk...	flatnessisgod Best Price: $35.99 well, where to start. i'm glad i didn't buy this book, it's a complete sham, which...

No More Prisons If you really care about the issues presented in this book, you'd better educate yourself...	Jokerman 8 Best Price: $1.91 Richard Melo, Jokerman 8 (Soft Skull, 2004) A friend of mine passed this onto me a couple of...	Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War "Tea" is a fairly good description of recent Sri Lankan history on its ride down the...	For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War Superficial at best, 6 weeks is not nearly enough time to get even a basic knowledge of one of...	Bummer: And Other Stories The women featured in these stories have one thing in common: They?re having a terrible day. ...

Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists—not fictional ones like the...	We are Iran	The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (Deep Focus) Best Price: $7.25 In 1977, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training had a moment in the sun. A glowing junk...	flatnessisgod Best Price: $35.99 well, where to start. i'm glad i didn't buy this book, it's a complete sham, which...	No More Prisons If you really care about the issues presented in this book, you'd better educate yourself...

Jokerman 8 Best Price: $1.91 Richard Melo, Jokerman 8 (Soft Skull, 2004) A friend of mine passed this onto me a couple of...	Everyone's Pretty: A Novel Best Price: $6.02 Written by the acclaimed author of My Happy Life and George Bush, Dark Prince of Love,...	Kissing Dead Girls Best Price: $8.87 Daphne Gottlieb made her name in spoken word by writing and performing edgy, non-conventional...	The Wildly Irish Sextet Best Price: $8.49 All the characters I came to love in Wimmer's earlier Irish Trilogy are back, more mature...	The Great Frustration: Stories Best Price: $8.79 Let me start by saying that you should absolutely buy this book. The concepts in the stories...

Popaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English Best Price: $128.75 This glossy, colorful book collects Ron English's great works and accomplishments, spanning...	Hideous Dream Best Price: $29.67 First let me start by saying that many of those critical of Goff's observations drip with a...	Final Girl Best Price: $7.00 Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl (Soft Skull Press, 2003) During a rather heated discussion on the...	Everyone's Pretty: A Novel Best Price: $2.96 Rumored to be inspired by author Lydia Millet's two-year stint working as a copy editor at...	Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center Best Price: $6.05 Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the...

Someday We'll All Be Free Best Price: $4.89 I must say I read some review on here on Kevin Powells other works, and from that I thought I...	Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen Best Price: $23.78 This is a chronological "oral history" sort of book. 90% of the text is made up of...	Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings Best Price: $0.01 It's possible to feel one is wandering in a cold, mathematical wasteland when reading...	Father Said: Poems Best Price: $8.50 Hal Sirowitz, the former Poet Laureate of Queens (who now lives in another boro), offers us this...	Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems Best Price: $0.01 Reviewed by Jennifer Leblanc for Small Spiral Notebook In Wake Up Calls, 66 Morning Poems,...

A Box of Longing with 50 Drawers: A Revisioning of the Preamble to the Constitution Best Price: $2.70 I don't remember ever seeing a book exactly like this one, and I give Jen Benka points for...	Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man Best Price: $7.81 There are amazing illustrations in this little book. It's disappointing the poem sequence...	The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers Best Price: $4.20 More than twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Custer is a hero while Captain Frederick...	Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry Best Price: $3.93 Tough little Soft Skull surprises once again with a thick compendium of some interesting...	Kissing Dead Girls

The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping Best Price: $4.94 Alan Ziegler respects both the craft and the mystery of writing, which is a rare combination...	No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New and Selected Poems Best Price: $8.49 Written between 1989 and 2008, the poems in Kevin Powell?s powerful new collection encompass...	Buskers: The On-the-Streets, In-the-Trains, Off-the-Grid Memoir of Two New York City Street Musicians Best Price: $1.99 Frustrated by the indifference of the music industry and the stacks of homemade CDs gathering...	Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of "The Good War" Best Price: $0.53 I am using a letter that I wrote to a Harvard author as the basis of my unequivocal support and...	Snark Inc.: A Corporate Fable Best Price: $2.79 I'm not normally the kind of person that reads comics (or Graphic Novels if you must be that...

Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians: For My Parents Best Price: $0.01 Written by an American Jewish artist, this collection of sketches and portraits begins with a...	Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine Best Price: $1,073.27 A study and review of the Brion Gysin invention "The Dream Machine", as seen by the...	Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex Best Price: $0.98 "My dreams are small," said Olly. "They can only scratch." "Well,...	It Disappears . . . (Soft Skull ShortLit) Best Price: $94.02 IT DISAPPEARS by Nate Powell, Soft Skull Press, 71 Bond St., Brooklyn, NY 11217;...	Siberia Best Price: $12.18 Nikolai Maslov's Siberia unfolds as a series of brief, telling vignettes that portray the...

Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy: The Next Generation Best Price: $5.19 Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy explains how privilege works in our society, and...

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