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CHARLES BUKOWSKI (HOWARD SOUNES)

CHARLES BUKOWSKI (HOWARD SOUNES)

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Howard Sounes

$15.00

Charles Bukowski—onetime bum, long-term alcoholic, and author of such now-classic novels as Post Office , Factotum , and Women —rose from obscurity to become world famous. His semi-autobiographical books about low-life... (more)

CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S SCARLET: A MEMOIR

CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S SCARLET: A MEMOIR

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Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood

$15.95

"It began as a whim" -- an impulsive meeting between the iconic Charles Bukowski and his famed muse, Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood and led to a two-year relationship... (more)

CHARLES BUKOWSKI: A SURE BET

CHARLES BUKOWSKI: A SURE BET

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Gerald Locklin

$10.00

A slim hardcover collection of essays, articles and reviews about Charles Bukowski and his work, by his friend and fellow poet Gerald Locklin. Includes stories like "How To... (more)

CONVERSATIONS WITH HUNTER S. THOMPSON

CONVERSATIONS WITH HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson, editors

$22.00

In 1971, the outlandish originator of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) commandeered the international literary limelight with his best-selling, comic masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .... (more)

DANCING BAREFOOT

DANCING BAREFOOT

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Dave Thompson

$24.95

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Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock 'n' roll era, a... (more)

DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON

DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON

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George Orwell

$14.00

In this highly regarded work -- fictional but in good part autobiographical, and famous for its realistic and unsentimental descriptions of poverty -- George Orwell narrates the adventures... (more)

THE EDEN EXPRESS

THE EDEN EXPRESS

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Mark Vonnegut

$19.00

"Most diseases can be separated from one's self... schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut's depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness.... (more)

EVERYTHING IS AN AFTERTHOUGHT

EVERYTHING IS AN AFTERTHOUGHT

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Kevin Avery

$29.99

A pioneering Rolling Stone critic gets his due in this landmark work of cultural revival, a tribute to and collection by one of the unsung critical champions of... (more)

FLOATING WORLDS

FLOATING WORLDS

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Edward Gorey, Peter F. Neumeyer

$35.00

?You know far more about me than anyone else in the world." -EG to PN. Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer met in the summer of 1968. Gorey had... (more)

GONZO

GONZO

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Will Bingley, Anthony Hope-Smith

$17.95

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Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publicly branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak, and a psychopath.... (more)

GONZO WAY: A CELEBRATION OF DR. HUNTER S....

GONZO WAY: A CELEBRATION OF DR. HUNTER S....

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Anita Thompson

$14.95

The writer Tom Wolfe once described Hunter S. Thompson as the finest comic writer of the 20th century. Thompson was this and more, an apt observer of the... (more)

GONZO: HUNTER S. THOMPSON (BIG)

GONZO: HUNTER S. THOMPSON (BIG)

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Steve Crist, editor

$39.95

This tour de force will take you into the world of American writer and iconoclast Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson's groundbreaking style of "gonzo" journalism made him one of... (more)

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