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Growing up in the 1970s has never before been portrayed with such delightful ludicrousness and heartrending tenderness as in Why Aren't You Smiling? When teenage Leonard decides to quit being a Dweeb and instead join the Burnouts, his "good kid" persona is abandoned as he embarks on a comically painful journey of self-discovery through his unconventional friendship with Rick, an older Jesus freak barefoot hippie. The farcical parallel story of how Irving Mandelbaum from Los Angeles transmogrifies into rag-tag cult leader Rick of The Forever Family paints an indelible portrait of California during one of its most preposterous eras.

Noted literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books.

Seeking solace in the cycle of seasons, award-winning poet Su discovers the fleeting, fragile nature of this place called home.

Handy advice on how to survive, thrive, and be spectacular. These experiential, very real commentaries from today's underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from "Door Etiquette for the Nightlife-Challenged" by Clint Catalyst to "How to be an Art Star" by downtown New York City scenester Reverend Jen.

In this outrageous second volume of amazing poetry, quick-witted spoken word slam champ Matt Cook tackles science ("Static Electricity"), geography ("Pittsburgh"), and death ("Oblong Strongboxes"), among other topics. His vision is that of the blue-collar Midwest, perceptively observing life globally ("Goat Transaction") and locally ("The Man Across the Street"). Quirky and humorous, with a subtext of serious social commentary, Cook's writing is for people who think they hate poetry (and for those who love it, too).

These concrete narrative poems imbued with Eli Coppola's straightforward, feisty sensibility explore the difficulties and rewards of love: what one goes through to love and be loved. Class ("Huddle When the Sky Turns Yellow"), social injustice ("Jury Duty"), and mortality ("Casual Hands, Brutal Stars, Past Things") are recurrent themes, but love is always the driving force. This striking collection shows that Coppola's muscular dystrophy preoccupied her less than the daily difficulties of being a woman of no great financial means living in a very imperfect world.

Explore the dark side--literally and figuratively--of evening time with short fiction by Jonathan Ames, Todd Pruzan, Rick Moody, Richard Rushfield, Elizabeth Ellen, Davy Rothbart, Jonathan Lethem, T. Cooper, Monica Drake, Aimee Bender, Jeff Johnson, James Tate, Thorn Kief Hillsbery, Heidi Julavits, Michelle Tea, Dan Kennedy, Stacey Richter, Marshall Moore, and Dave Eggers (writing under the pen name "Lucy Thomas").

"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."--"The San Francisco Bay Guardian" Before penning her contemporary classic "Valencia," Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for the first time. A "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of 2004 and a Lambda Literary Award finalist.