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Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. "Eileen Myles is a genius!" -- Dorothy Allison

A close look at John Carpenter's 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop"--P. (4) of cover.

Providing a witty, wide-screen look at how video games are becoming part of the cultural landscape, noted writers, artists, scholars, poets, and programmers talk about what gaming means to them and discuss its growing impact on fashion, fiction, film, and music.

In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight -- whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam -- wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, Knight engages both the puritanical Islam promoted by Saudi globalization and the heretical strands of popular folk Islam: shrine...

For Vesna Maric, the war begins when the machine-gun fire in the distance sounds like a sewing machine. As it comes closer, her family's anxiety grows, prompting them to send her and her sister to Britain via bus. The Bosnian women who board the bus for the four-day trip are in turmoil: Gordana, a fifty-two-year-old who looks like Xena the Warrior Princess, reveals through tears that she is pregnant and must leave her husband in Bosnia, their ...

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Dr. Edward Whitelock spent most of the year 1978 stealing and hoarding his grandmother's meds in preparation for suicide. Why? Just the usual story: he was a poor, clumsy, socially awkward kid whose daily life was comprised of the seemingly unending torture of the middle-school outcast. Then, Devo appeared on Saturday Night Live. Everything changed, the future was revealed: The geeks would inherit the earth. APOCALYPSE JUKEBOX is an examinatio...

<, div>, <, i>, The Good Fairies of New York<, /i>, tells the fish-out-of-water story of two Scottish thistle fairies who find themselves in Manhattan. The fairies hook up with two humans, Kerry (complete with colostomy bag) and Dinnie (antisocial in the extreme), finding time to help both get their acts together. A book that brings together race riots and Scottish folklore, <, i>, The Good Fairies of New York<, /i>, is any...

In a powerful polemic against US imperial overreach, former Special ForcesSergant Stan Geoff (Delta Force, US Rangers, Special Ops) depicts the new American Empire as hopelessly over-reliant on technology, ignorant of the lessons of history and hamstrung in their "intelligence" by racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit to US hegemony.

Declaring that there hasn't been a "real" Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson, Rall decries "the hijacking of the government by right-wingers and the seeming powerlessness of the left to stop them.

In his highly acclaimed third novel, Turner deftly blends time shifts, tableaux of radical sexuality and degradation, and an unexpected coming-of-age theme, bringing comparisons to Salinger and other chroniclers of growing up absurd.

JRNLS 80s" recounts the years Sonic Youth spent in used vans and sleeping on floors while waiting for the occasional good show to make it all worthwhile.144 pp.

The first title under the new Red Rattle Books imprint introduces a children's science fiction fable about a forlorn robot named Snoot who finds inner strength through adversity and encourages readers to look for truth beyond the surface. Full color.