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Hardback. Condition: Good. After enduring, from afar, a seemingly endless series of worldwide disasters - including 9/11 and the asian tsunami - while living in earthquake-prone Los Angeles, bereft Katrina experiences deep inner longings for some sense of permanence, meaning and intimacy. A pre-school teacher contemplating the unsettling challenges of her mid-life, she finds solace in her dear friend Grace and conflict in the arms of narcissistic yoga intstructor Jasper. Quakeland speaks in a deeply stirring female voice to an unspoken sense of universal longing quietly prevalent today.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Now in its third printing, this second collection of a dozen interconnected short stories from the celebrated author of 'Monkey Girl' casts a cool eye on the lost and living dead of offices, nightclubs, shopping malls and tidy homes, where pretentious web designers are a dime a dozen. In this wholly unpredictable collection of tongue-in-chic slices of life, Lisick unveils a world of interrelatedness and the often incomprehensible coincidences of everyday life. 'Lisick transforms the mundane into comic-absurd revelations on the human experience' - SF Weekly.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Now in its third printing, this second collection of a dozen interconnected short stories from the celebrated author of 'Monkey Girl' casts a cool eye on the lost and living dead of offices, nightclubs, shopping malls and tidy homes, where pretentious web designers are a dime a dozen. In this wholly unpredictable collection of tongue-in-chic slices of life, Lisick unveils a world of interrelatedness and the often incomprehensible coincidences of everyday life. 'Lisick transforms the mundane into comic-absurd revelations on the human experience' - SF Weekly.…

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Hardback. Condition: Fair. The joke is a literary genre - a folksy creation of a short story. More than just a cheap yuk-yuk, these humorous gems will give your mind something to ponder. Written in a colloquial style of speech, they provide instant relief from modern-day horrors.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Poetry Slams - the Olympics of poetry - have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents ten years of slams, with poems from national champions and essays on how to run a slam, winning strategies, and tips for memorizing poems.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Poetry Slams - the Olympics of poetry - have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents ten years of slams, with poems from national champions and essays on how to run a slam, winning strategies, and tips for memorizing poems.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. According to the Intersex Society of North America, intersex describes a person born with sex chromosomes, genitalia or an internal reproductive system that are neither clearly male nor female. In first-person prose, Thea Hillman presents her memoirs in a series of compelling short stories that take a no-holds barred look at sex, gender, family and community. Whether she is reflecting on quirky family tendencies, queerness or recounting scintillating adventures in San Francisco's sex clubs, Hillman's brave and fierce vision for societal change shines through.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. According to the Intersex Society of North America, intersex describes a person born with sex chromosomes, genitalia or an internal reproductive system that are neither clearly male nor female. In first-person prose, Thea Hillman presents her memoirs in a series of compelling short stories that take a no-holds barred look at sex, gender, family and community. Whether she is reflecting on quirky family tendencies, queerness or recounting scintillating adventures in San Francisco's sex clubs, Hillman's brave and fierce vision for societal change shines through.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Gay people have never been as free - or as divided - as in today's society. As the gay majority surges into the mainstream, a social construct has emerged depicting `Good Gays' and `Bad Gays'. Endless mythmaking goes into dehumanising the Bad. The characters populating 98 Wounds run roughshod in a city spiralling towards collapse. They broker urgent desires in constant pursuit of identity, obsession, rituals of hope, even the simplicity of an ordinary life. They unwaveringly root for their own understanding of belonging, contentment, pleasure and love.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found he kept travelling home to Southeast Asia - a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu - to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. Gutted is a document of growing older - a massively moving work of grief, loss, comfort and illness and resolve - imbued with Chin's unique screwy perspective, ever-defective grace and scabrous humour. Chin is downright charming. - Publishers Weekly.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Hilariously recasting everyone's favourite crypto-zoological hominid as the modern day everyman, In Me Own Words tells of the hairy one's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture and philosophical quandaries. In a graphic novel that is a crazed mutant hybrid of Ralph Steadman and Bill Sienkiewicz, Graham Roumieu gives us a portrait of the artist as a young ape that will leave every reader doubled over with laughter. Fifty million X-Files fans can't be wrong: the truth that's out there is that Bigfoot is the next Elvis.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Hilariously recasting everyone's favourite crypto-zoological hominid as the modern day everyman, In Me Own Words tells of the hairy one's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture and philosophical quandaries. In a graphic novel that is a crazed mutant hybrid of Ralph Steadman and Bill Sienkiewicz, Graham Roumieu gives us a portrait of the artist as a young ape that will leave every reader doubled over with laughter. Fifty million X-Files fans can't be wrong: the truth that's out there is that Bigfoot is the next Elvis.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In-depth interviews with 24 women who create internationally recognised art that pushes boundaries, dares to question and redefines the genres of mixed media, theatre, film, photography, visual, conceptual and performance art. This ground-breaking anthology will serve as a reference book for art historians as well as an inspiration for young female artists and a general readership interested in alternative culture.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In these wonderful poems by McDaniel, it is hard to separate the humour from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent and are presented in fresh and original ways. This book is heartbreaking and hilarious simultaneously. And McDaniel's love of language is everywhere evident creating images you won't soon forget.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Born female, yet realising how little they identitfied with that gender, these writers illuminate the experiences of those who identify as FTM (female to male), and those whose gender is more fluid (genderqueer, thirdgender etc) Given the opportunity to write about any aspect of changing gender identity, from dating to family issues, these authors have beautifully crafted stories offering heartfelt insight into the changing dynamics of identity politics. These writers prove that biology doesn't control destiny.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Born female, yet realising how little they identitfied with that gender, these writers illuminate the experiences of those who identify as FTM (female to male), and those whose gender is more fluid (genderqueer, thirdgender etc) Given the opportunity to write about any aspect of changing gender identity, from dating to family issues, these authors have beautifully crafted stories offering heartfelt insight into the changing dynamics of identity politics. These writers prove that biology doesn't control destiny.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Award-winning author Michelle Tea ran away to San Francisco's queer and literary scenes in the early 90s, finding a home on the stages of various open mic venues and self-publishing a steady stream of very limited edition photocopied poetry chapbooks, all of which are available here, collected for the first time. Reflective themes of unrequited love and languor, hopes and heartbreak, prostitution and destitution fill every page with immediately accessible narrative lines. In these tender yet tough contemplations, Tea welcomes the reader to explore her innermost passions.…

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