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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head, a Novel by Philip Whalen The Residual Years by William Everson By the Sound by Ed Dorn Hollywood by Charles Bukowski Edificio Sayonara by John Yau The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13 by Diane Wakoski The Spider's House by Paul Bowles Mad Dogs of Trieste by Janine Pommy-Vega Bathwater Wine by Wanda Coleman The Faces Reappear by Sherril Jaffe
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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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