REAL LIFE

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  1. Fug You

    Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side

    $26.99

    Fug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Learn More
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    Ghosty Men: An Urban Historical

    $22.00

    The Strange But True Story Of The Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders. Learn More
  3. Give Me Everything You Have

    Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked

    $25.00

    A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author’s strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled “verbal terrorist,” who began trying, in her words, to “ruin him.” Learn More
  4. Growgirl

    Growgirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot

    $26.00

    The star of the international cult sensation The Blair Witch Project shares the high points of living on a marijuana farm post- Hollywood. Learn More
  5. How to Piss in Public

    How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood

    $24.00

    Though technically a memoir, this is more a compendium of hair-whitening bar stories that punch you in the throat until your eyes explode. Learn More
  6. Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

    Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

    $26.95

    Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America’s most recognizable and admired progressive voices. Learn More
  7. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

    I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

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    In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Learn More
  8. Jubilee Hitchhiker

    Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

    $29.95

    Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. Learn More
  9. Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny

    Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny

    $27.00

    You will hear a Nile Rodgers song today. It will make you happy. Learn More
  10. Lives We Carry with Us

    Lives We Carry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage

    $24.95

    A dozen brilliant portraits by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Andrew Greeley described as a “social scientist, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist, minstrel, wandering storytelling, mystic, wise man, poet dissenter". Learn More

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