Soft Skull
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Inter State: Essays from California
$16.95 Read moreA “must read” debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer’s family and life (Los Angeles Ti… [more below]
- Author: Vadi, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1593766955
- Language: English
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Tell Me I’m an Artist
$17.95 Read more“Portrait of the artist as a broke and brilliant, hungry and funny young woman” (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want), this hilarious and incisive coming-of-age novel about an art student from a poor f… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767579
- Language: English
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Cool for You
$16.95 Add to cartGrainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their … [more below]
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1619029170
- Language: English
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The Novelist
$24.00 Read moreBrisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a delight. Jordan Castro is a rare new talent: an author highly attuned to the traditions he is working wit… [more below]
- Author: Castro, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767137
- Language: English
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Broken Glass
$16.95 Read moreAn irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgott… [more below]
- Author: Mabanckou, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1593763077
- Language: English
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Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
$21.95 Add to cartEcstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (“ecstasy”) and MIDI (the … [more below]
- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 1593764073
- Language: English
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Oval
$17.95 Add to cartBizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. This unforgettable debut novel asks questions… [more below]
- Author: Wilk, Elvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1593764057
- Language: English
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Parade: A Folktale
$11.95 Add to cart“A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . An ethereal, resonating literary gift” (Booklist, starred review) from the internationally bestselling author of Strange Weat… [more below]
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1593765800
- Language: English
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Death by Landscape
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinction
In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narrative- Author: Wilk, Elvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767153
- Language: English
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Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
$40.00 Read moreA cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of the fanzine Shotgun Seamstress, a legendary DIY project that centered the scope of Blackness outs… [more below]
- Author: Atoe, Osa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767390
- Language: English
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The Survivalists
$17.95 Add to cartA Phenomenal Book Club Pick
“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepar- Author: Cauley, Kashana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767595
- Language: English
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High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir
$17.95 Read more*Winner of the American Book Award*
An Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award–Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award This witty mem
*Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography*- Author: Gomez, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767056
- Language: English
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
$16.95 Add to cartIn this “delightfully uncanny” collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of usef… [more below]
- Author: Matsuda, Aoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1593766904
- Language: English
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Cousins
$17.95 Read moreFour women from La Plata, Argentina, are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals thanks to their impoverished, dysfunctional family–in this darkly comic literary masterpiece from Aurora Venturin… [more below]
- Author: Venturini, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767293
- Language: English
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The Best That You Can Do: Stories
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful … [more below]
- Author: Gautier, Amina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767587
- Language: English
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Liquid Snakes
$27.00 Read moreFinalist for the Libby Book Awards
What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution,- Author: Kearse, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 159376751X
- Language: English
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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
$16.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrat
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award
Winner of the CHIRBy Award for Poetry
Winner of the BCALA Literary Award- Author: Byas, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767412
- Language: English
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Blue Hour
$15.95 Read moreA Barack Obama 2023 Summer Reading selection
What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s always been–a love song. Our narrator is a gifted phot- Author: Harrison, Tiffany Clarke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767498
- Language: English
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I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both
$28.00 Read moreSusan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the s… [more below]
- Author: Stovall, Mariah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767609
- Language: English
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Wings of Red
$16.95 Read moreAn inventive and stylish debut written by a Black educator, Wings of Red is a clear-eyed, funny, imperfect, and observant work of autofiction that grapples with the absurdity of the New York City educ… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767099
- Language: English
