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Ask the Dust by John Fante; Charles Bukowski (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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Category: Writing | Series: Canons Ser.
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wis ...Show more
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic; Bruce Springsteen (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Canons Ser.
Born on the Fourth of July details the author's life story - from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the America's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Forever Words - The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Canons Ser.
A treasure-trove of never-before-published poems and lyrics from the legendary Johnny Cash.
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Category: Art History | Series: Canons Ser.
A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativity This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creatio ...Show more
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Canons Ser.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for e ...Show more
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Canons Ser.
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski; Howard Sounes (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known star ...Show more
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Iced by Ray Shell
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Category: Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
A searing work of modern fiction tracing a man's decline into the depths of addiction
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more