Lenny Bruce

Eric Bogosian

An autobiography by Lenny Bruce, an important and influential stand-up comedian from the 1940's through the 1960's.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

An Autobiography

Castigated in his time for breaching such American conversational taboos as religion, sex, censorship, and racism, Lenny Bruce proved to be a pioneer in exposing hypocrisies, the impact of which still echoes on both sides of censorship controversies. This book and soon-to-be-released private tapes are sure to bring the extent of Bruce's influence into sharp focus. Photo insert.

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

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Steve Martin

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Comic's Life

The Emmy Award-winning comedian shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. 350,000 first printing.

Born Standing Up

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William P. Young

Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity 

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

The Shack

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Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. AsDetailsmagazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L.A. punk rocker into a universal soldier. His enemies: slackers and hypocrites. His mission: to steel your soul and rock your world." Rollins was frontman for the seminal punk band Black Flag, and since 1987 has led the Rollins Band, whose ninth album,Come In and Burn, was just released by DreamWorks. As a spoken-word artist, he regularly performs at colleges and theaters worldwide and has released eight spoken-word audiotapes. His albumGet in the Vanwon the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for 1995. As an actor, he has appeared inThe Chase, Johnny Mnemonic, Heat, and David Lynch's forthcoming film,Lost Highway. From his days as front man for the band Black Flag and the current Rollins Band to his books and spoken-word audiotapes, Henry Rollins is the music, the attitude, and the voice that takes no prisoners. In his twelve books, he has led us on a hallucinatory journey through the decades--and his mind--with poems, essays, short stories, diary entries, and rants that exist at "the frayed edges where reality ends and imagination begins" (Publishers Weekly). For the first time, the best of his legendary, no-holds-barred writings are available. This collection includes new photos and works from such seminal Rollins books as: High Adventure in the Great Outdoors Art to Choke Hearts Bang! Black Coffee Blues Get in the Van Do I Come Here Often? Solipsist Plus never before released stories and more...

The Portable Henry Rollins

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See a Grown Man Cry

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High Adventure in the Great Outdoors

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Presents more than 170 prose works that depict the landscape of modern America and the walking wounded who inhabit it

Solipsist

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Art to Choke Hearts - Pissing in the Gene Pool

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A collection of the author's writings from 1989 to 1991, including "124 Worlds," "Exhaustion Blues," "Monster," and "61 Dreams"

Black Coffee Blues

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Chuck Palahniuk

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pygmy--a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated little killer, in this double-edged satire of American xenophobia by the best-selling author of Fight Club.

Pygmy

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Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.

Haunted

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After personal assistant Hazie Coogan discovers that a new suitor of her boss, movie star Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death, Hazie realizes she must hatch a plan to save Miss Kathie for her fans--and for posterity. By the best-selling author of Pygmy. 200,000 first printing.

Tell-All

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The Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Based on the reminiscences of his three friends following Casey's spectacular death, a fictional oral biography of Buster "Rant" Casey" chronicles the violent world of a small-town rebel who heads for the big city to become the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, as well as rumors that his saliva infected hundreds with a plague of rabies. 125,000 first printing.

Rant

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A Novel

Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.

Diary

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Narrated by Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600 as they await their turn on camera, a novel about the role of pornography in contemporary life follows porn queen Cassie Wright, who plans to break the record for serial fornication with six hundred men on camera.

Snuff

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In a confusing world poised on the brink of mayhem, Tyler Durden, a projectionist, waiter, and anarchic genius, comes up with an idea to create clubs in which young men can escape their humdrum existence and prove themselves in barehanded fights

Fight Club

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Assigned to a story on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, fortyish journalist Carl Streator finds a poetry anthology that contains an African chant that becomes lethal when spoken or thought in someone's direction, is transformed into an involuntary serial killer, and embarks on a cross-country odyssey to destroy all copies of the book before humankind itself is destroyed. Reprint. 175,000 first printing.

Lullaby

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Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.

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Lenny Bruce; Eric Bogosian

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

Steve Martin

Born Standing Up

William P. Young

The Shack

Henry Rollins

The Portable Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins

See a Grown Man Cry

Henry Rollins

High Adventure in the Great Outdoors

Henry Rollins

Solipsist

Henry Rollins

Art to Choke Hearts - Pissing in the Gene Pool

Henry Rollins

Black Coffee Blues

Chuck Palahniuk

Pygmy

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Haunted

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Tell-All

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Rant

Chuck Palahniuk

Diary

Chuck Palahniuk

Snuff

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Fight Club

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Lullaby

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Choke

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Diary

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