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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

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Series: Dog Poems An Anthology Paperback Various 9780811230599 $17.95 POETRY Feb 09, 2021

Our canine companions offer us friendship, love, understanding, all unadulterated. They are our joyful playmates and our furry shoulders to cry on, from the cradle to the grave. Â Â Â Â Â Â This book brings together some of the finest poems on dogs by a range of poets from Diogenes to Dorothy Parker, from Chaucer to Clarice Lispector. Gertrude Stein once said, “I am I because my little dog knows me,” and this collection proves it: with their wit, their wisdom, and their delights, these poems—and the dogs that inspired them—hold up a mirror to... + Read More
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Series: Ellis Island Paperback Georges Perec 9780811229548 $17.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 09, 2021

Georges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans.Â Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival: “To me Ellis Island is the ultimate place of exile. That is, the place where place is absent, the non-place, the nowhere. Ellis Island belongs to all those ... + Read More
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Series: Antonio Paperback Beatriz Bracher 9780811227384 $23.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive—Isabel, his grandmother; Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his father’s friend—and each will tell him a different version of the facts.Â By collecting these shards of memories, which offer personal glimpses into issues of class and politics in Brazil, Benjamin will piece together the painful puzzle of ... + Read More
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Series: The German Lesson Paperback Siegfried Lenz 9780811222013 $29.95 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find... + Read More
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Series: The Gentle Barbarian Paperback Bohumil Hrabal 9780811228589 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to VladimÃr BoudnÃk, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of BoudnÃk’s creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transcendent magic, and his passion for sharing his ideas and his art with anyone willing to listen. Hrabal’s anecdotal portrait includes another controversial figure in th... + Read More
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Series: Hurricane Season Paperback Fernanda Melchor 9780811230735 $25.50 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violen... + Read More
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Series: Double Trio: Tej Bet, So's Notice, Nerve Church Limited Edition Box Set Hardcover Nathaniel Mackey 9780811230629 $97.50 POETRY Apr 06, 2021

For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poems—“Song of the Andoumboulou” and “Mu”—that follow a mysterious, migrant “we” through the rhythms and currents of the world with lyrical virtuosity and impassioned expectancy. In a note to this astonishing box set of new work, Mackey writes: Â Â Â Â Â “I turned sixty-five within a couple of months of beginning to write Double Trio and I was within a couple of months of turning seventy-one when I... + Read More
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Series: The Holderliniae Paperback Nathaniel Tarn 9780811230636 $25.50 POETRY Apr 06, 2021

Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn’s new collection The HÃ¶lderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich HÃ¶lderlin?— the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of his life sequestered in a carpenter’s tower in the south of Germany. Tarn speaks through HÃ¶lderlin and HÃ¶lderlin speaks through Tarn in an act of spiritual and lyric possession unlike anything else in contemporary poetry. The French Revolution—which HÃ¶lderlin supported passionately until the Reign of Terror—illuminates our war-torn, ecologically ... + Read More
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Series: An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures Hardcover Clarice Lispector 9780811230612 $34.50 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

LÃ³ri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effor... + Read More