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A satire on California featuring two TV journalists, one a Chicano, the other his Japanese-American girlfriend. The novel has many characters, plots and themes. One plot deals with the smuggling of body parts, another with illegal immigration, a third with the export of poisoned…

A satire on California featuring two TV journalists, one a Chicano, the other his Japanese-American girlfriend. The novel has many characters, plots and themes. One plot deals with the smuggling of body parts, another with illegal immigration, a third with the export of poisoned…

Selected Poems charts Mark Ford's growing complexity as a writer and his mastery and use of form. John Ashbery calls Ford's work "refreshing" and it's that exuberance and goodwill that animates the poems, giving them their spontaneity and leavening the grim with comic élan and j…

A collection of poems by Vietnamese American performance poet and two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion Bao Phi.

A collection of poems by Vietnamese American performance poet and two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion Bao Phi.

"Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion - an elegiac paean to the grimly comic, unsentimental, and quintessentially American world Gilbert Sorrentino so brilliantly captu…

"Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion - an elegiac paean to the grimly comic, unsentimental, and quintessentially American world Gilbert Sorrentino so brilliantly captu…

Each of its 50 brief vignettes examines a semi-anonymous character (who may or may not have been lifted from one of Sorrentinos earlier works) and reminds us, through irony, wry humor, and an aching sadness, that life is something of a muddle, full of deceptions and denials but …

"Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion - an elegiac paean to the grimly comic, unsentimental, and quintessentially American world Gilbert Sorrentino so brilliantly captu…