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“When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School" by Sam Kashner "As a teenager I idolized the Beat authors, as did author Sam Kashner. However, while I took my enthusiasms on the road with me, Kashner enrolled to become the first student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Jack had died with Ginsberg, Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and other notorious poets and literary madmen of the 50s, having become faculty members twenty odd years after the HOWL and Naked Lunch obscenity trials. This poignant coming of age story is also a hilarious look at what happens when we confront our heroes and see them revealed as flesh and blood human beings. As "On the Road" celebrates its 50th year in print this month, this is the perfect book to glimpse into the lives of what happened to the Beats themselves as they traded in their heroin and benzedrine for blood pressure medication and dentures." ...Ron Stadnik Paperback : ISBN 006000567X / 9780060005672 LBN # 396999 / Price: $17.50 |
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| July 2007 | |||
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“Late Hector Kipling" by David Thewlis "This book is the most madly brilliant fiction I've read in ages, although likely not for everyone. This is, as you'd imagine, a book written by the character played by Thewlis in the film Naked. If that's a film you appreciate, this is for you, but if you only know Thewlis through such films as Seven Years in Tibet or Harry Potter, you'd best stay away. It's a wicked, cruel, biting, delicious work. Highly recommended for the twisted." ...Ron Stadnik Paperback : ISBN 0143054007 / 9780143054009 LBN # 514469 / Price: $24.00 |
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| June 2007 | |||
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“Ten Points" |
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| May 2007 | |||
| "May is a month to think of food, whether it's harvesting rhubarb and leeks in Vancouver, or planting the garden in Ontario; spring revolves around our body's instinctual need to feed. The following aren't practical gardening books, but might be called "foodspirational" as they document current and past eating habits and trends, providing insights into means of positive change. Reading these will change what's on your plate and how it got there." ....Ron Stadnik | |||
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“The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating" |
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“The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" |
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“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver & Camille Kingsolver Hardcover : ISBN 0060852550 / 9780060852559 LBN # 514721 / Price: $33.95 |
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“Alice Waters and Chez Panisse" by Thomas McNamee Hardcover : ISBN 1594201153 / 9781594201158 LBN # 503575 / Price: $35.00 |
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