LITERATURE
"And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction too, stupid." -John Waters
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Grantland #2
$25.00Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Bill Simmons' new web magazine Grantland. It features some of the most exciting and form-pushing sports writers currently plying the trade, all delivered in a beautifully designed full-color book with original artwork and a host of print exclusives. Learn More -
God Says No
$22.00Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. Learn More -
Fever Chart
$22.00Having spent most of his life medicated, electroshocked, and institutionalized, Jerome Coe finds himself homeless on the coldest night of the century — and so, with nowhere else to go, he accepts a ride out of New England from an old love's ex-girlfriend. Learn More -
Emmaus
$22.00The secular and the pious. The rich and the poor. Those with "a capacity for destiny" and those who "cannot afford it." Learn More -
City of Rivers
$20.00The poems in City of Rivers—the first full-length collection from 23-year-old wunderkind Zubair Ahmed—are clear and cool as a glass of water. Learn More -
Celebrations of Curious Characters
$26.00Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay—raconteur, historian, and one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand artists—exposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. Learn More -
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
$29.00A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green's autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Learn More -
Between Heaven And Here
$24.00In August in Rio Seco, California, the ground is too hard to bury a body. But Glorette Picard is dead, and across the canal, out in the orange groves, they’ll gather shovels and pickaxes and soak the dirt until they can lay her coffin down. Learn More -
Be a Nose!: Sketchbooks
$29.00Be a Nose! takes Spiegelman's sketchbooks from 1979, 1983 and 2007 and reproduces them, ink spots and all, for the first time ever. Learn More -
At Home on the Range
$24.00Recently, while moving into a new house, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardcovers was a book called At Home on the Range (or, How To Make Friends with Your Stove) by Gilbert's great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Learn More
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