Black Humor
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Xcrmntmntn
$14.95 Add to cartWhen a pile of sh*t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a journey up a cosmic mountain of excrement with the director and his film crew as they ascend into madn
- Author: Hilbert, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1943720819
- Language: English
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The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
$18.99 Add to cart“Loud, slap dash and uproarious…extraordinarily original and funny.”–New York Times
Now, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder’s brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted int
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 09, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062693492
- Language: English
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Tram 83
$14.95 Add to cart“An exuberantly dark first novel.” — NPR’s Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross
**Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016**
**Winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction**
Two friends,
- Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1941920047
- Language: English
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Asleep in the Sun
$18.95 Add to cartLucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Bioy Casares, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170954
- Language: English
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The Brutal Language of Love: Stories
$15.99 Read moreAlicia Erian’s characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In “Alcatraz,” we meet a middle-sch… [more below]
- Author: Erian, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1416592717
- Language: English
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Music for Torching
$17.99 Add to cartA tour de force: A. M. Homes’s unforgettable New Yorker story unfolds into a fiercely entertaining novel of marriage, family, and the American dream.
In a tale that unfolds over the course of one week
- Author: Homes, A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2000
- ISBN10: 068817762X
- Language: English
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Hotel Honolulu
$16.99 Add to cartIn this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel’s narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0618219153
- Language: English
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Citizens of Light
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime First Novel
“Sam Shelstad has a funny, lively, engaging, peculiar mind–charming and surprising.” –Sheila Heti, bestselling author of Mo
- Author: Shelstad, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1990071058
- Language: English
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award
“Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review
From the PEN/He
- Author: Fountain, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0060885610
- Language: English
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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
$18.00 Read more“Comyns’ novel is deranged in ways that shouldn’t be disclosed.” –Ben Marcus
This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimmin- Author: Comyns, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0984469311
- Language: English
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Crudo
$14.95 Read moreIt’s the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. In Crudo,
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357414
- Language: English
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The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n
$15.99 Add to cartThe humorous adventures of Hyman Kaplan, the irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, and his personal war with the English language. A classic work of american humor
- Author: Ross, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0156278111
- Language: English
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Midnight Clear: A Callahan Garrity Mystery
$18.99 Add to cart“Midnight Clear explores the family ties that bind and blind…[It] will make you laugh, make you cry, make you mad, and make you wonder right up until the very last page.” — Boston Globe
In this hear
- Series: Callahan Garrity #7
- Author: Andrews, Mary Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 006219514X
- Language: English
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Bring Me Your Love
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Charles Bukowski’s acerbic wit shines through
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856067
- Language: English
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The Fuck Up
$16.99 Add to cartArthur Nersesian’s underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life.
This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He’s a perennial couch-surfer, an- Author: Nersesian, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671027638
- Language: English
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Mrs Queen Takes the Train
$15.99 Add to cart“A witty, contemporary story of the Downton Abbey-esque tensions between servants and employers, the young and the old, and tradition and modernity.” — Glamour
An absolute delight of a debut novel by
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kuhn, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0062208292
- Language: English
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Literally Show Me a Healthy Person
$15.00 Read moreIt’s a book of grief and anxiety, of questions and confessions. One that explores the way pain and anxiety can be simultaneously public and private, constant but not always at the top of a person’s mi… [more below]
- Author: Wilder, Darcie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0999218603
- Language: English
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Be Frank with Me
$19.99 Add to cartAN AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION ADULT DEBUT HONOR BOOK
WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE NARRATOR
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious
- Author: Johnson, Julia Claiborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062413724
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Agony
$18.95 Add to cartThe heavyweight of hardcore horror returns with ten hard hitting new short stories and seven brutal epic poems exploring the darkest soul of humanity and the cruelty of life without pulling punches. W… [more below]
- Author: White, Wrath James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 195590474X
- Language: English
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2030
$26.00 Add to cartIs this what’s in store?
June 12, 2030 started out like any other day in memory–and by then, memories were long. Since cancer had been cured fifteen years before, America’s population was aging rapid- Author: Brooks, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0312591292
- Language: English
