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Hotel Room Trilogy: Tricks/Blackout/Mrs. Kashfi
Plays in three episodes, which take place in the same New York City at three different times.
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Baby Cat-Face
From Barry Gifford comes a “wild, wacky, funny, well-written, and surreal” novel (Kansas City Star) about a woman struggling to make her way in “a New Orleans so...
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Wild at Heart
In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford (Ghosts No Horse Can Carry, Port Tropique) cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young...
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The Sinaloa Story
Employing a strange and bountiful cast of characters, The Sinaloa Story bobs and weaves as if challenging the reader to follow a spectacular, if often incoherent,...
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Perdita Durango
In Perdita Durango, Gifford brings us the uniquely villainous Perdita, born as a minor character in Wild at Heart and reincarnated here as the killer-lovely queen...
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My Last Martini
From the author of Night People, Wild at Heart, The Sinaloa Story, and more than a dozen other works of award-winning fiction and nonfiction comes this piquant...
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Lost Highway
Screenplay of Lost Highway, co-written with writer and director David Lynch
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My Father In The Night tells the story of three generations of men living in the North Beach section of San Francisco in an Irish-American family. Eleven year-old...
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The Phantom Father
Gifford’s father, Rudy Winston, was considered a “good man to know” in the wild and woolly Chicago of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. His list of friends and...
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Out of the past: Adventures in Film Noir
For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and...
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"Scarlet Tears of London" is a special collection of my most precious poems composed in the most precious moments of my passions and visions from June 2005 to...
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Cross Fire
Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two...
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A compromised Justice system, a drug running bike gang, and new love collide. New Zealand’s Justice system is compromised by a drug running bike gang. Justice...
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The lives of a pre-historic couple intertwine with and influence the lives of two modern day couples with strong spiritual and romantic effects. The adventure of...
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Wait a Minute, I Have to Take Off My Bra is an anthology celebrating the most female of body parts, the breasts. From light-hearted memories of the first buds of...
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J-Boys
Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan...
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Desigining With Kanji
Japanese kanji characters combine meaning with beauty and thus offer a unique medium for artistic expression. But if you don’t know the language, how do you find...
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We The Animals
An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding...
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The L Life
There have been few cultural touchstones to open people’s eyes to everyday lesbian life—until now. Through fascinating interviews and stunning portrait...
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Stories in the Key of C. Minor.
Stories in the Key of C. Minor., a short story collection by Russell Bittner.
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