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Septuagenarian Stew by Charles Bukowski The Roominghouse Madrigals by Charles Bukowski Against the American Dream by Russell Harrison War Games by Wright Morris The Musician by Eve Shelnutt Fracture by Clayton Eshleman Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski House Tours by Sherril Jaffe A Bar in Brooklyn by Andrei Codrescu West of Rome by John Fante America by Ed Sanders
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“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”
― Lucia Berlin, Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998
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Children's, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Young-adult


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