false 2278 15374 0316706000 9780316706001 94 <![CDATA[The Ice Storm: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672339m/15374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672339s/15374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15374.The_Ice_Storm_A_Novel 3.66 1036 2278 3.46 4220 453 1994 111088 140003339X 9781400033393 75 <![CDATA[McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648355m/111088.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648355s/111088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111088.McSweeney_s_Mammoth_Treasury_of_Thrilling_Tales 3.53 925 A Vintage Contemporaries Original

Includes:
Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"

Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"

Dan Chaon's "The Bees"

Kelly Link's "Catskin"

Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"

Carol Emshwiller's "The General"

Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time"

Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"

Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"

Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn’t Come Out"

Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"

Chris Offutt's "Chuck’s Bucket"

Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"

Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"

Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"

Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"

Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"

Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"

Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"

Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"]]> 2715 3.86 70830 9806 21550 3.70 1970 344 12940 3.54 16451 1248 54462 3.71 2627 387 1221698 4.13 284815 26390 5194 3.47 190942 8474 2929 3.58 81682 7735 6760 3.98 22306 2586 10188 3.67 1332 137 3389 3.75 733946 32928 3371 3.75 89229 11507 16939 3.79 16207 876 5285 3.88 4752 647 7415 4.05 10085 673 2716 3.89 2905 486 1448 2.79 13874 1951 16560 3.67 3081 594 2278 3.46 4220 453 24902 3.90 5566 1043 2003 164615 0316592102 9780316592109 56 <![CDATA[Demonology: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337724m/164615.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337724s/164615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164615.Demonology_Stories 3.49 556 2278 3.46 4220 453 2000 15376 2743609397 9782743609399 30 <![CDATA[Purple America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672342m/15376.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672342s/15376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15376.Purple_America 3.44 263 Purple America begins in a bathtub and ends in Long Island Sound. In between, Rick Moody's latest novel explores the landscape of a family in crisis. Dexter (Hex) Raitliffe, a freelance publicist, returns home to care for his mother, Billie, who is dying by inches of a neurological disease that will rob her of motion, of speech, and finally of thought. Billie's second husband has left her--a fact that Hex is unaware of until he comes home--and her only hope for assisted suicide lies in her son. Unfortunately, Hex is barely able to conduct his own life, much less take his mother's. Purple America takes place over the course of a single night; in that night, Hex gives his mother a bath, reconnects with an old love, gets drunk, and goes after his stepfather to confront him, with tragic results.

As Moody weaves his tale of this fateful Friday evening, he juxtaposes themes of aging, obsolescence, and physical decline with an accident at the nuclear power plant where his stepfather works. What lifts this novel above its rather depressing subject matter is Moody's unsentimental storytelling and the soaring language with which he gives his characters voice. Purple America is by turns lyrical, tragic, ferocious, and funny, and Rick Moody is a writer with a brilliant future ahead of him.

]]> 2278 3.46 4220 453 1997 15384 0571200613 9780571200610 19 <![CDATA[Garden State]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672355m/15384.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672355s/15384.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15384.Garden_State 3.00 287 2278 3.46 4220 453 1992 94607 0316706280 9780316706285 15 <![CDATA[The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291951m/94607.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291951s/94607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94607.The_Ring_of_Brightest_Angels_Around_Heaven_A_Novella_and_Stories 3.63 215 PW. NYT. "]]> 2278 3.46 4220 453 1337 6706839 081121849X 9780811218498 0 <![CDATA[In the American Grain (Second Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6706839-in-the-american-grain 3.00 1 A new edition of William Carlos Williams’ loving and groundbreaking book about American history, with a new introduction by Rick Moody. Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is “a fundamental book, essential if one proposes to come to terms with American literature” (Times Literary Supplement). William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus’s discovery of the Indies and moving on through Sir Walter Raleigh, Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln, Williams found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning and configurations of character. He brought a poetic imagination to the task of reconstructing a live tradition for Americans, and what results is one of the finest works of prose to have been penned by any writer of the twentieth century. .]]> 15435 4.20 8716 497 2278 3.46 4220 453 1956 15375 0316013277 9780316013277 39 <![CDATA[The Diviners]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672339m/15375.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672339s/15375.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15375.The_Diviners 2.99 197 2278 3.46 4220 453 2005 15379 0316578991 9780316578998 22 <![CDATA[The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672343m/15379.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672343s/15379.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15379.The_Black_Veil_A_Memoir_with_Digressions 2.94 174 The Ice Storm and Demonology, his memoir The Black Veil will offer more of the same. What's different, however, is that this time the protagonist is Moody himself. The book, subtitled A Memoir with Digressions, reads at times like a delicious essay collection outlining Moody's Connecticut childhood (complete with recipes for the perfect lobster roll and significance of the wax bean), and at times like a work of passionate literary criticism. But whether Moody discusses the impact of his parents' divorce, his alcoholic excesses in college and Manhattan, his time at an inpatient psychiatric unit, or his obvious passion for literature, his memoir does what so many current works in this genre do not: it shows the author looking beyond himself, through literature, to a world larger and more spiritual than the one in which he lives.

The titular black veil refers to a Hawthorne story (appended) about a New England minister Moody believes may be a relative. Moody's book is not so much about his quest to research the story of the black veil, despite the trek he makes to Maine to do just that, as it is the account of his personal relationship to that story. While die-hard Moody fans may find the book a surprising departure, those who want to know him more intimately will enjoy accompanying him on this personal and intellectual journey. --Jane Hodges

]]> 2278 3.46 4220 453 2002 15378 0316166340 9780316166348 26 <![CDATA[Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672343m/15378.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672343s/15378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15378.Right_Livelihoods_Three_Novellas 3.14 94 2278 3.46 4220 453 2007 164620 0810910039 9780810910034 5 <![CDATA[Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337763m/164620.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337763s/164620.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164620.Twilight_Photographs_by_Gregory_Crewdson 4.36 55 Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux, this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind deceptively familiar suburban facades. Scheduled to accompany three simultaneous gallery exhibitions in Spring 2002 and a subsequent retrospective at Mass MoCA, this book chronicles the completion of the Twilight series, which Crewdson began in 1998. Including both production stills and the 40 finished images, all in full color, it also features an essay by Rick Moody, a novelist equally renowned for exposing the underbelly of small-town, middle-class America.

]]> 2278 3.46 4220 453 2002 507847 1560259590 9781560259596 18 <![CDATA[The Apocalypse Reader]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219111937m/507847.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219111937s/507847.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/507847.The_Apocalypse_Reader 3.36 67 85708 3.97 223 53 127826 3.37 68 18 61378 3.85 592 115 1363104 3.38 69 19 29064 3.71 2194 266 535433 3.59 149 37 2942995 3.36 67 18 267337 3.86 397 69 54462 3.71 2627 387 48355 4.02 900 178 1221698 4.13 284815 26390 504302 3.38 68 19 11890 3.80 318 69 7799 3.33 68593 3255 2942996 3.36 67 18 26414 3.57 610 156 874602 3.93 48452 4131 320674 3.88 153 36 24902 3.90 5566 1043 218539 4.10 715 121 9494 4.15 16305 1199 2278 3.46 4220 453 16939 3.79 16207 876 2942994 3.36 67 18 12178 3.61 216 49 3524 3.53 37154 4598 5756 4.10 46547 1886 403113 3.47 74 19 127466 3.50 114 27 135676 3.74 337 63 216587 3.88 609 160 880695 3.62 33780 2117 674508 3.54 112 30 291600 4.03 473 80 2007 164617 0375752153 9780375752155 5 <![CDATA[Beat Writers at Work]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337751m/164617.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337751s/164617.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164617.Beat_Writers_at_Work 3.92 13 95658 4.26 65 12 2278 3.46 4220 453 1999 905455 0955282934 9780955282935 2 <![CDATA[The Flash]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179340554m/905455.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179340554s/905455.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905455.The_Flash 4.45 11 28596 3.72 3013 676 2278 3.46 4220 453 374441 4.05 20 2 2007 15380 0316579955 9780316579957 0 <![CDATA[Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672344m/15380.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672344s/15380.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15380.Joyful_Noise_The_New_Testament_Revisited 3.00 9 Seeking to reconcile their experiences growing up in the baby boom and Generation X years with their political beliefs and the fractious ethics of the late twentieth century, the writers represented in this collection have looked back to the source text of Christianity. Their essays, which offer interpretations of the New Testament that eye-opening, passionate, and powerful, will be a source of reassurance and inspiration to anyone who has felt the need to approach spirituality in a personal or unorthodox way.

]]> 2278 3.46 4220 453 4372 3.25 710 115 1997 4315527 0195342844 9780195342840 1 <![CDATA[Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256002129m/4315527.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256002129s/4315527.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4315527.Oxford_American_Writer_s_Thesaurus 5.00 4 This new edition has been updated and enhanced, including a new foreword by award-winning author Rick Moody. Additionally, the second edition introduces new Word Toolkits, which use an exciting visual display of information to demonstrate the nuances in meaning and use of closely related words. Also new to this edition is a center section including thematic word lists, as well as a comprehensive language guide with writing tips. The new features are based on findings from Oxford's groundbreaking language research program and the Oxford English Corpus.
The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is truly (surely, certainly, unquestionably) the perfect tool for discriminating writers of all varieties looking for the perfect word.
Praise for the first edition:
"The best new array of synonyms around."
--William Safire, The New York Times Magazine
"In the jargon of sportscasters The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a triple threat: It's a freshly conceived guide to finding just the right word, it's published by the greatest name in English reference books, and it offers thoughtful, amusing and provocative mini-essays on 240 favorite words by nine distinguished contemporary writers."
--Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize winning critic and longtime journalist for The Washington Post
"This very readable reference will help writers find the most precise word for their needs.... Current, thoughtful, and attractively formatted, this is an indispensable tool for writers."
--School Library Journal (Starred Review)
"Perhaps the thesaurus's most fascinating feature is lengthy lists of words that link opposites--fat and thin, comic and tragic, interesting and boring. With this book close at hand, no one will call you the thesaurus's ultimate synonym for writer: a hack."
--Village Voice
]]> 120603 5.00 5 2 2278 3.46 4220 453 2008 94610 1891273000 9781891273001 1 <![CDATA[Hover : Photographs]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291963m/94610.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291963s/94610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94610.Hover_Photographs 5.00 2 2278 3.46 4220 453 3524 3.53 37154 4598 4372 3.25 710 115 1998 6710204 0 <![CDATA[The Four Fingers Of Death]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6710204-the-four-fingers-of-death 5.00 1 2278 3.46 4220 453 2010 52436 0941215113 9780941215114 0 <![CDATA[Primal Primer : 5X5 Singles Club]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648515m/52436.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648515s/52436.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52436.Primal_Primer_5X5_Singles_Club 4.00 1 29607 4.00 1 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 1998 94615 0070417857 9780070417854 0 <![CDATA[Introduction to Film Art and Analysis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94615.Introduction_to_Film_Art_and_Analysis 2.00 1 54422 2.00 1 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 1993 94609 1564783375 9781564783370 0 <![CDATA[Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 2003)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291962m/94609.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291962s/94609.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94609.Review_of_Contemporary_Fiction 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 2003 226305 0967741033 9780967741031 0 <![CDATA[Surplus Value Books: Catalog Number 13]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226305.Surplus_Value_Books_Catalog_Number_13 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 2000 6737679 0907660924 9780907660927 0 <![CDATA[Maureen Gallace]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6737679-maureen-gallace 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 2004 52435 0316579203 9780316579209 0 <![CDATA[Book About Ned Harrigan and Tony Hart]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52435.Book_About_Ned_Harrigan_and_Tony_Hart 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 1999 164616 1564783367 9781564783363 0 <![CDATA[Review of Contemporary Fiction: Summer 2003]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337738m/164616.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337738s/164616.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164616.Review_of_Contemporary_Fiction_Summer_2003 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 54420 4.30 53 6 54421 0.0 0 0 2003 7353219 0316118915 9780316118910 0 <![CDATA[The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7353219-the-four-fingers-of-death 0.0 0
Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona.  The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine.  In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally--a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. 

The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.]]> 2278 3.46 4220 453 2010 7188860 0316092215 9780316092210 0 <![CDATA[Demonology]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7188860-demonology 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 2009 94620 0070122318 0 <![CDATA[Introduction to Media Art]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94620.Introduction_to_Media_Art 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 1997 94612 0941964574 9780941964579 0 <![CDATA[Conjunctions: 41, Two Kingdoms]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291966m/94612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291966s/94612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94612.Conjunctions_41_Two_Kingdoms 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 35087 3.71 978 152 2003 7291787 0571236340 9780571236343 0 <![CDATA[The Omega Force]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7291787-the-omega-force 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 2008 3351 189044717X 9781890447175 0 <![CDATA[Open City: The only woman he ever left, #6]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163357154m/3351.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163357154s/3351.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3351.Open_City_The_only_woman_he_ever_left_6 0.0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 1998 94619 0971384452 9780971384453 0 <![CDATA[Roy Lichtenstein: Times Square Mural]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291987m/94619.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171291987s/94619.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94619.Roy_Lichtenstein_Times_Square_Mural 0.0 0 54423 4.62 8 1 2278 3.46 4220 453 25390 3.50 6 0 2003 1799660 3775720448 9783775720441 0 <![CDATA[Christine Hill: Minutes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188511794m/1799660.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188511794s/1799660.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1799660.Christine_Hill_Minutes 0.0 0 541556 0.0 0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 26414 3.57 610 156 2007 7120517 0974386332 9780974386331 0 <![CDATA[Circumference, Issue 4]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7120517-circumference-issue-4 0.0 0 1406456 4.86 7 2 61636 4.45 258 24 13847 4.29 4117 279 86816 4.54 925 83 73111 3.92 71 11 735273 4.53 15 0 51987 4.45 11 1 26075 3.75 12 3 3162651 0.0 0 0 2043281 0.0 0 0 2278 3.46 4220 453 73435 4.35 77 8 356547 3.60 5 1 76493 4.30 283 17 44120 4.36 196 12 2005 7197117 1416546030 9781416546030 0 <![CDATA[The Collected Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7197117-the-collected-stories 0.0 0 18710 4.20 3049 480 2278 3.46 4220 453 2006 7197119 0641969589 9780641969584 0 <![CDATA[The Collected Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7197119-the-collected-stories 0.0 0 18710 4.20 3049 480 2278 3.46 4220 453 2007