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Jason McBride presents Eat Your Mind in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and controversial artists of her era. The author of visionary, transgressive novels like Blood and Guts in High School; Empire of the Senseless; and Pussy, King of Pirates, Acker wrote obsessively about the treachery of love, the limitations of language, and the possibility of revolution. She was notorious for her methods - collaging together texts stolen from other writers with her own diaries, sexual fantasies, and blunt political critiques - as well as her appearance. With her punkish hairstyles, tattoos, and couture outfits she looked like no other writer before or after. Her work was exceptionally prescient, taking up complicated conversations about gender, sex, capitalism, and colonialism that continue today. A feat of literary biography, Eat Your Mind (Simon & Schuster) is the first full-scale, authorized life of Acker. Drawing on exclusive interviews with hundreds of Acker’s intimates as well as her private journals, correspondence, and early drafts of her work, acclaimed journalist and critic Jason McBride offers a thrilling account and a long overdue reassessment of a misunderstood genius and revolutionary artist. McBride was joined in conversation by Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust.
Get a copy of Eat Your Mind here: www.powells.com/book/eat-your-mind-9781982117023
Get a copy of Eat Your Mind here: www.powells.com/book/eat-your-mind-9781982117023
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James J. Butcher presents Dead Man’s Hand in conversation with Jim Butcher
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In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel, Dead Man’s Hands (Ace Books) is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are...
Daniel O'Malley presents Blitz in conversation with Charlaine Harris
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September, 1940: Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them, breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three re...
Annie Duke presents Quit in conversation with David Epstein
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From Annie Duke, the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets, comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success. Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own ...
Daniel Kraus presents Wrath in conversation with Grady Hendrix
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In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence. Wrath (Union Square) - by Shäron Moalem (Survival of the Sickest) and Daniel Kraus (The Living Dead) - is the story of a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersiz...
John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman present The Love Prescription in conversation with Amy Sun
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What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past 40 years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over 3,000 couples, looking at everything from their body language to t...
Andy Kroll presents A Death on W Street in conversation with Tim Dickinson
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In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on a quiet Washington, DC, street. But who killed Seth Rich? When he was buried in his hometown, his rabbi declared: “There are no answers for a young man gunned down in the prime of his life.” The rabbi was wrong. There were in fact many answers, way too many. In the absence of an arrest, a howling mob f...
Steven Hyden presents Long Road in conversation with Chuck Klosterman
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Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold over 85 million albums, performed for hundreds of thousands of fans around the world, and have even been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation (Hachette), music critic and journalist Steven Hyden celebra...
Hannah Sward presents Strip in conversation with Amy Dresner
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Born in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet father on an island with no stores or cars. Kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, she grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute with a taste for crystal meth - which seemed to be a sure-fire way to lose weight - with stops along the way for silent gurus, sugar daddies, and drinking in th...
Thom Hartmann presents The Hidden History of Neoliberalism
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In his new book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness (Berrett-Koehler), progressive radio host Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it's time for us to turn our backs to it. While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don't fully understand ho...
Madeline Ostrander presents At Home on an Unruly Planet, in conversation with Michelle Nijhuis
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How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet (Henry Holt), science journalist ...
Sasha Fletcher presents Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World with Lydia Kiesling
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It’s Brooklyn. It’s winter. It’s so cold outside you could execute billionaires in the street about it. Sam lives with Eleanor and they are in love. He has three or four outstanding invoices that would each cover rent for a month. At some point, the President is going to make some absolutely wild announcements that will only end in doom. In a surreal, funny, and heart-breaking version of realit...
Gary Shteyngart presents Our Country Friends in conversation with Carolyn Kellogg
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It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends, and friends-of-friends, gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months new friendships and romances take hold, while old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters include: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psyc...
Syren Nagakyrie presents The Disabled Hiker’s Guide to Western Washington & Oregon with Naomi Ortiz
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Syren Nagakyrie’s The Disabled Hiker’s Guide to Western Washington and Oregon (Falcon Guides) is the first book of its kind to consider the diverse needs of disabled people in the outdoors. This groundbreaking guidebook includes 60 outdoor adventures, including drive-up experiences, verified wheelchair accessible trails, and foot trails suitable for disabled hikers. This guide removes one of th...
Jesse Ball presents Autoportrait in conversation with Max Porter
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Jesse Ball has produced 14 acclaimed works of deeply empathetic absurdism in poetry and fiction. Now, he offers readers his first memoir, one that showcases his “humane curiosity” (James Wood) and invites the reader into a raw and personal account of love, grief, and memory. Inspired by the memoir Édouard Levé put to paper shortly before his death, Autoportrait (Catapult) is an extraordinarily ...
Mona Awad presents All's Well in conversation with Iain Reid
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Mona Awad presents All's Well in conversation with Iain Reid
Oscar Hokeah presents Calling for a Blanket Dance, in conversation with Rubén Degollado
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Oscar Hokeah presents Calling for a Blanket Dance, in conversation with Rubén Degollado
Vince A Liaguno & Rena Mason with Tananarive Due, Jennifer McMahon, Alma Katsu & Nathan Carson
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Vince A Liaguno & Rena Mason with Tananarive Due, Jennifer McMahon, Alma Katsu & Nathan Carson
Eve Fairbanks presents The Inheritors in conversation with Kiese Laymon
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Eve Fairbanks presents The Inheritors in conversation with Kiese Laymon
Meng Jin & K-Ming Chang in Conversation With Rachel Khong
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Meng Jin & K-Ming Chang in Conversation With Rachel Khong
Paul Tremblay presents The Pallbearers Club in conversation with Stewart O'Nan
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Paul Tremblay presents The Pallbearers Club in conversation with Stewart O'Nan
Tiana Clark, Vanessa Friedman & Shayla Lawson present Sex & the Single Woman with Katherine Morgan
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Tiana Clark, Vanessa Friedman & Shayla Lawson present Sex & the Single Woman with Katherine Morgan
Alyson Noël presents Stealing Infinity in conversation with Tracy Wolff
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Alyson Noël presents Stealing Infinity in conversation with Tracy Wolff
Louis Bayard presents Jackie & Me in conversation with Julia Claiborne Johnson
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Louis Bayard presents Jackie & Me in conversation with Julia Claiborne Johnson
Rick Emerson presents Unmask Alice in conversation with Chelsea Cain
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Rick Emerson presents Unmask Alice in conversation with Chelsea Cain
Melissa Febos presents Girlhood in conversation with Genevieve Hudson
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Melissa Febos presents Girlhood in conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Jim Woodring presents One Beautiful Spring Day in conversation with Gary Groth
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Jim Woodring presents One Beautiful Spring Day in conversation with Gary Groth
Kaitlyn Tiffany presents Everything I Need I Get from You in conversation with Lindsay Zoladz
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Kaitlyn Tiffany presents Everything I Need I Get from You in conversation with Lindsay Zoladz
Joseph Han presents Nuclear Family in conversation with Gene Kwak
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Joseph Han presents Nuclear Family in conversation with Gene Kwak
Kim Harrison presents Trouble with the Cursed in conversation with Charlaine Harris
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Kim Harrison presents Trouble with the Cursed in conversation with Charlaine Harris