Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante
 From Amazon.com: Unfamiliar with the works of John Fante? Sadly, you're not alone. While his few novels received critical acclaim, they went out of print quickly, and for most of his career Fante relied on Hollywood screenwriting to support both his [... more]
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
very strong, angry poetry: Charles Bukowski is by sure one of my favorite poets. His work is vivid and very powerful. This book has my favorite poems by him, "Rain" and also "The Mockingbird" The molding of a great hard drinking poet [... more]
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The Brotherhood of the Grape
stong enough to lead me to his earlier works: Charles Bukowski praised John Fante on his Hostage cd. That was enough to capture my interest The Brotherhood Of The Grape seems to do for Italian-Americans what Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes did for the [... more]
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Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of ...
The pleasures of a minor life: Geoffrey Wolff's famous 1976 biography of Harry Crosby--a minor but spellbinding figure of the so-called Lost Generation--was an ideal book for the NYRB Press to revive and reissue. As a literary figure Crosby was certainly [... more]
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Ask the Dust
From Amazon.com: This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 19 [... more]
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The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
Still More Wheat than Chaff: Even in decline or repose, Bukowski was a snarling middleweight champion next to the preening and professional academic poets that choke our journals. I suppose we can even forgive him the torrent of imitators and pretenders [... more]
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Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-70
jarring: Will jar the senses. Nothing cute here. The author, Bukowski, barely holding on by his fingertips (before he started to make any money with his literary eforts.) Highly recommend it to anyone who preffers the real to the slickly put together [... more]
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Brotherhood of the Grape
stong enough to lead me to his earlier works: Charles Bukowski praised John Fante on his Hostage cd. That was enough to capture my interest The Brotherhood Of The Grape seems to do for Italian-Americans what Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes did for the [... more]
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The Stories of Paul Bowles
heart of darkness: A beautiful collection that certainly beats the old reliable Black Sparrow book. This is a class treatment of one of the best writers working the middle part of the century. (The intro is not particulary illuminating, however.) The [... more]
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Mercurochrome New Poems
One of America's Best Writers!!: Wanda Coleman has been publishing with Black Sparrow Press for nearly 25 years, which is amazing since she's only 55, and looks much younger than that. Even more amazing than the devotion she and BSP share, is the [... more]
CDN$19.01
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Ask the Dust: Novel
From Amazon.com: This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 19 [... more]
CDN$26.04
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Bring Me Your Love
WAY Too Expensive for just a tidbit of work!: Compared to the many beefy, thick collections available from both of these creators, this book is horribly anemic! Crumb fans get 5 drawings. Buk readers get 6 pages. If you think that's worth $6, then you [... more]
CDN$10.95
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