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Rudolfo Anaya Page
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Richard Bach: browse books
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Alisha's Richard Bach page
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humorist Dave Barry: browse books
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Rick Bass of Montana
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entry at Wikipedia
 | "Nashville Chrome: A Novel" [2010] American trio The Browns [1955-67] – siblings Maxine, 'Jim Ed' & Bonnie – were the first group to have a number one hit on both the country and the pop charts (and later on the folk charts – pioneers in the phenomenon of crossover hits) and were the number one selling group in England in 1957. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8¼x5¾ hardcover [9/2010] for $16.20 'The Browns' entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Why I Came West: A Memoir" [2008] Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [7/2009] for $11.21 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover [7/2008] for $19.20 |
Ann Beattie
"Ann Beattie: New Yorker Stories" [2011]
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Gene H. Bell-Villada
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homepage at Williams College
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James P. Blaylock: books fansite
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humorist Roy Blount, Jr.
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Ray Bradbury Pages
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ex-felon author Edward Bunker: browse books
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mystery author James Lee Burke Page
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award-winning Michael Chabon
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1999 O. Henry Award
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Jerome Charyn
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children's author Beverly Cleary [b. 1916]
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mystery author Michael Connelly Page
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mystery author K.C. Constantine
the Rocksburg, PA novels: books
J.D.'s fansite
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Don Delillo
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The Don DeLillo Society [est. 1999]
"Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun" [BBC 1991]
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Junot Dνaz
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poet & artist G. Thomas Edwards of Gardnerville, NV
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Dave Eggars: browse books
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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2011 update: "On Turning Poverty Into An American Crime" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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"This Land Is Their Land: Reports From A Divided Nation" [62 essays 2008] by Barbara Ehrenreich Holt 7¾x5¼ pb [4/2009] for $10.12 Metropolitan Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2008] for $16.49 |
 | "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of The American Dream" [2005 New York Times bestseller] by Barbara Ehrenreich Holt 8x5½ pb [7/2006] for $10.40 Metropolitan Books 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2005] for $19.20 |
 | "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" [2001] by Barbara Ehrenreich winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize April 2002 Picador 10th Anniv Edition pb with new Afterword [8/2011] for $9.59 Owl Books 9x5 pb [5/2002] for $7.80 Metropolitan 9x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.10 "Nickel & Dimed: The Play" [2002] |
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Deborah Eisenberg
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 | "The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg" [2010] combining the four previous short story collections "Transactions In A Foreign Currency" [1986], "Under The 82nd Airborne" [1992], "All Around Atlantis" [1997], and "Twilight of The Superheroes" [2006] for a total of 27 tales Picador Paperback Original 8¼x6½ pb [3/2010] for $14.96 |
mystery author James Ellroy Page
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Joshua Ferris
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Wm. Price Fox
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Jonathan Franzen
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FS&G official website
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cover story in Time Magazine, August 2010
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Robert A. Gallinger: browse books official website
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William Gibson
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Jim Harrison
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"Legends of The Fall" + movie
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Gerald W. Haslam
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 | "Jack Londons Golden State: Selected California Writings" [1999] Edited by Gerald Haslam essays, short stories, journalism, and fiction excerpts (from "John Barleycorn", "Martin Eden", "The Sea Wolf", "The Star Rover", "The Iron Heel", "The Valley of The Moon" & others) Heyday Books 9x6 pb [7/1999] out of print/used Spirit of America Bookstore's Jack London [1876-1916] Page |
"Working Man Blues: Country Music In California" [Univ CA Press 1999] ISBN 0520218000
by Gerald W. Haslam, with Richard Chon & Alexandra Haslam Russell
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S.E. Hinton
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"The Outsiders" [1983] /tt0086066/
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
"Rumble Fish" [1983] /tt0086216/
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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mystery author J.A. Jance Page
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Denis Johnson
poet-author-playwright Johnson is known for his portraits of America's desperate and dispossessed
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 | "Angels: A Novel" [1983] by Denis Johnson Johnson's first novel: A runaway wife toting two kids meets an ex-con drifter on the Greyhound bus to Phoenix. Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [4/2002] for $12.19 Knopf 8½x6 hardcover [8/83] out of print/many used |
"Fiskadoro" [1985 novel]
"The Stars At Noon" [1986 novel]
"Resuscitation of A Hanged Man: A Novel" [1991]
"Jesus' Son" short story collection [1992]
"Jesus' Son" feature film [1999] /tt0186253/
"Already Dead: A California Gothic" [1998 novel]
"The Name of The World: A Novel" [2000]
"Seek: Reports From The Edges of America & Beyond" [essays 2001]
"Train Dreams" [2002 novella]
"Tree of Smoke" [2007 novel]
 | "Nobody Move: A Novel" [2009] by Denis Johnson Serialized in Playboy magazine, Summer 2009. Addictive gambler Jimmy Luntz escapes a knee-capping and hooks up with an alcoholic vixen set on revenge after she was set up as fall-guy for a million-dollar swindle by her prosecutor husband; the underworld kingpin and his enforcer catch up with them and muscle in on the money deal. Picador 8¼x6½ pb [4/2010] for $11.20 FS&G 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2009] for $17.01 |
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author & radio show host Garrison Keillor
on Spirit of America's Old Time Radio Page
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Pulitzer-winner Jhumpa Lahiri
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2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction {for "Interpreter of Maladies"}
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William Least Heat-Moon
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 | "Blue Highways: A Journey Into America" [1982] by William Least Heat-Moon Little Brown 8¼x5½ pb [11/99] for $10.47 Little Brown 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/99] for $20.97 Nightingale-Conant ABR audio [11/91] for $11.20 |
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"Roads To Quoz: An American Mosey" [2008] by William Least Heat Moon Back Bay Books pb [11/2009] for $11.55 Little, Brown 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2008] for $18.47 |
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journalist & author Jim Lehrer
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 | "Super: A Novel" [2010] by Jim Lehrer A trip on the famous Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles (in 1956) involves a murdered railroad passenger agent, with possible links to Clark Gable and to the deaths of Harry Truman and a Hollywood movie producer. Random House 8¼x5½ hardcover [4/2010] for $16.50 |
Jonathan Lethem
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 | "Gun, With Occasional Music" [1994] by Jonathan Lethem Set in a future Oakland-Bay Area; only the government or police can ask questions, state-made drugs keep the populace in check, tough guy 'inquisitor' Conrad Metcalf's new client is framed for murder, and the local rackets boss has sent a gun-toting kangaroo to stop Metcalf. (Film pro- ducer-director Alan J. Pakula [1928-98] optioned the novel's movie rights in the mid-1990s.) Mariner Books 8x6½ pb [9/2003] for $11.20 Tor Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/95] out of print/many, many used Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8½x6 hardcover [3/94] out of print/many, many used book entry at Wikipedia |
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David Liss
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 | "A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel" [2000] by David Liss
Period mystery thriller novel set in early 18th century London against the backdrop of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency Ballantine Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2001] for $10.29 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2000] out of print/many, many used Announced in December 2010 as a Ridley & Tony Scott production, adaptation by Danny Strong for Warner Bros. release in 2014 latest info at IMDb |
 | "The Coffee Trader: A Novel" [2003] by David Liss
Set in the Amsterdam commodities market in 1659. Ballantine 8x5¼ pb [2/2004] for $10.17 Random House hardcover [3/2003] out of print/used Random House ABR audio CD [8/00] for $18.87 |
 | "The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel" [2008] by David Liss Down-on-his-luck former U.S. spy Ethan Saunders lost his true love to a successful Philadelphia businessman; when the man disappears, the wife asks Saunders to find him. Ballantine Books 8x5¼ pb [6/2009] for $10.80 Random House deckle-edge hardcover [9/2008] for $17.16 Whiskey Rebellion [1791-94] entry at Wikipedia Bank Panic of 1792 entry at Wikipedia |
Jo-Ann Mapson
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George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, NM
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L.A. Time columnist Al Martinez
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sci-fi author Richard Matheson
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'Somewhere In Time' official website
Richard Matheson entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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"Richard Matheson: Collected Stories" [2003-2005] Edited by Stanley Wiater Volume 1: Gauntlet Press 8¼x5¼ pb [12/2003] for $11.53 Volume 2: Gauntlet Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $11.53 Volume 3: Gauntlet Press 8x5¼ pb [11/2005] for $12.71 |
 | "Noir: Three Novels of Suspense" [1988] by Richard Matheson
includes "Someone Is Bleeding" [1953], "Fury On Sunday" [1953] & "Ride The Nightmare" [1959] Forge 8¼x5¼ pb [9/2005] for $11.66 Forge 8¼x5½ hardcover [9/2005] for $21.24 |
Cormac McCarthy of Tesuque, New Mexico
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Bill McKibben
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"The End of Nature" [1989 classic; revised 1997] by Bill McKibben Random House 3rd edition pb [6/2006] for $10.17 Tenth Anniversary Edition: Anchor 8x5¼ pb [8/97] for $11.20 Peter Smith 8¼x5¼ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used Random House 9¾x6¾ hardcover [9/89] out of print/many used |
 | "Maybe One: A Case For Smaller Families" [1998] by Bill McKibben Plume 7¾x5¼ pb [6/99] for $17.00 S&S hardcover [6/98] out of print/many used |
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"Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities & The Durable Future" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [3/2008] for $11.20 Times Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $15.00 |
 | "Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook For Taking Action In Your Community" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $10.40 |
Larry McMurtry Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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Pulitzer-winner John McPhee
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 | "The John McPhee Reader" [1976] Edited by William L. Howarth FS&G 8x5½ pb [6/82] for $15.00 FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/77] for $29.60 "The Second John McPhee Reader" [1996] Edited by Patricia Strachan FS&G 8x5½ pb [2/96] for $14.04 FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used |
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Lorrie Moore of Madison, Wisconsin
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"Birds of America: Stories" [1998 bestseller]
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prize-winning Toni Morrison
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1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1993 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Walter Mosley
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Walter Mosley Page
Easy Rawlins Mystery Novel Series
Fearless Jones Mystery Novel Series
Leonid McGill Mystery Novel Series
Socrates Fortlow Mystery Novel Series
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short story writer Alice Munro of Canada
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Antonya Nelson of Telluride, Colorado & Las Cruces, New Mexico
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national treasure Joyce Carol Oates
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J.R. (Judith) Parker: westerns & mysteries
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Annie Proulx
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Thomas Pynchon
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 | "Inherent Vice: A Novel" [New York Times bestseller 2009] "Part noir, part psychedelic romp." Southern California private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to find himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives & passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, fellow dopers, rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. Penguin 8½x5½ pb [7/2010] for $10.88 Penguin Press 9x6½ hardcover [8/2009] for $18.45 book entry at Wikipedia |
Pynchon's 'Trifecta'
"V." [1963]
"The Crying of Lot 49" [1966]
"Gravity's Rainbow" [1973]
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poet Adrienne Rich
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Philip Roth
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won the Man Booker International Prize in 2011
  | Roth: Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller
Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes novella "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Five Short Stories" [1959] & novel "Letting Go [1962] Roth: Novels, 19671972 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes "When She Was Good" [1967], "Portnoy's Complaint" [1969], "Our Gang" ]1971] & "The Breast" [1972] Roth: Novels, 1973-1977 [2006] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $23.10 includes "The Great American Novel" [1973], "My Life As A Man" [1974] & "The Professor of Desire" [1977] Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue, 19791985 [2007] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.1 includes "The Ghost Writer' [1979], "Zuckerman Unbound" [1981], "The Anatomy Lesson" [1983], "The Prague Orgy" [1985] & previously unproduced television screenplay for 'The Prague Orgy' |
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humorist David Sedaris: browse books & audio
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author-actor Sam Shepard
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Jane Smiley of Carmel Valley, California
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 | "13 Ways of Looking At The Novel" [2005] by Jane Smiley Anchor 7¾x5¼ pb [9/2006] for $10.85 Knopf 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $17.79 |
sci-fi author Norman Spinrad
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screenwriter-playwright Tom Stoppard
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Lisa Tucker of Philadelphia, PA
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Luis Valdez
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El Teatro Campesino [est. 1965]
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Vνctor Villaseρor: books official website
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