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Devotion
Devotion 3.85 avg rating — 15,462 ratings
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Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-1963
Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-1963 4.03 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,825 ratings
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Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting 4.52 avg rating — 744 ratings
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How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back 4.22 avg rating — 6,640 ratings
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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries, 1964-1980
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries, 1964-1980 4.09 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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Writing
Writing 3.66 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
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Drawing Words and Writing Pictures
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures 4.09 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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Che cos'è la poesia?
Che cos'è la poesia? 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction 3.77 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,749 ratings
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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew 4.23 avg rating — 5,767 ratings
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O Anjo Mudo
O Anjo Mudo
by: Al Berto
4.28 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer 3.84 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,842 ratings
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit 4.12 avg rating — 8,615 ratings
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Borges on Writing
Borges on Writing 4.07 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way
The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way 4.17 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Diários
Diários
by: Al Berto
4.51 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Writing Life
The Writing Life 3.98 avg rating — 18,001 ratings
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Kathy Acker: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 3.71 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word 3.62 avg rating — 598 ratings
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I'm Very Into You: Correspondence, 1995-1996
I'm Very Into You: Correspondence, 1995-1996 3.82 avg rating — 827 ratings
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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences 4.15 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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For Now
For Now 4.14 avg rating — 470 ratings
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking 3.75 avg rating — 3,553 ratings
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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs 4.02 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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The Coffee Break Guide to Social Media for Writers: How to Succeed on Social Media and Still Have Time to Write
The Coffee Break Guide to Social Media for Writers: How to Succeed on Social Media and Still Have Time to Write
by: Amy Denim
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing 4.28 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
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Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games
Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games 3.73 avg rating — 73 ratings
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This Craft of Verse
This Craft of Verse 4.31 avg rating — 1,908 ratings
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Shakespeare for Screenwriters: Timeless Writing Tips from the Master of Drama
Shakespeare for Screenwriters: Timeless Writing Tips from the Master of Drama 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings
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How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights 4.04 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Writing Is Acting: How to Improve the Writer's Onpage Performance
Writing Is Acting: How to Improve the Writer's Onpage Performance 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way
Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way 4.21 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature 3.87 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Writing With Quiet Hands: How to Shape Your Writing to Resonate with Readers
Writing With Quiet Hands: How to Shape Your Writing to Resonate with Readers 4.42 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life
Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life 3.91 avg rating — 680 ratings
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A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life 4.36 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story 4.15 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin' Memoir
Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin' Memoir 3.45 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives 4.16 avg rating — 979 ratings
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Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier
Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier 4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Making Speech Free
Making Speech Free it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Catching the Light
Catching the Light
by: Joy Harjo
4.32 avg rating — 435 ratings
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True Love Cast Out All Evil: The Songwriting Legacy of Roky Erickson (Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
True Love Cast Out All Evil: The Songwriting Legacy of Roky Erickson (Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver (Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver (Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard (Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard (Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Bad asses and disasters of early Idaho: songs that should have been written but weren't
Bad asses and disasters of early Idaho: songs that should have been written but weren't 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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How Sweet It Is (with "Reimagination" CD): A Songwriter's Reflections on Music, Motown and the Mystery of the Muse
How Sweet It Is (with "Reimagination" CD): A Songwriter's Reflections on Music, Motown and the Mystery of the Muse 4.29 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings
Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell
The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio
To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio 3.25 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hillbilly Poet's Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash & More
Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hillbilly Poet's Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash & More 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz 3.74 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul
The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul 3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega
The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega 4.06 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Songwriter's Handbook
The Songwriter's Handbook 3.84 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Walking a Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing 1956 - 2004
Walking a Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing 1956 - 2004 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt (Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt (Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University) 3.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972
Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972 3.33 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs
The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs 3.89 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Writings and Drawings
Writings and Drawings
by: Bob Dylan
4.26 avg rating — 231 ratings
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The Southern Magazine of Good Writing Oxford American (#75)
The Southern Magazine of Good Writing Oxford American (#75) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing
The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter 4.05 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting
Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters
Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World
Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Joe Hill: IWW Songwriter
Joe Hill: IWW Songwriter 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Them
Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Them 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings
Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings 4.12 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer 4.14 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 3.86 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap 4.04 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series)
The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer 3.86 avg rating — 228 ratings
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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars 4.27 avg rating — 268 ratings
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unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast
unspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 4.24 avg rating — 607 ratings
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The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
by: John Lane
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment
Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment 4.61 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings, 2001-2006
The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings, 2001-2006 4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Writings and Speeches
Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Writings and Speeches 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II 4.26 avg rating — 808 ratings
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing 3.98 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists 3.98 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings 4.34 avg rating — 257 ratings
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 3.95 avg rating — 859 ratings
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers 3.91 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great 3.99 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America 3.68 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy 4.25 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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The Grizzard Sampler: A Collection of the Early Writings of Lewis Grizzard
The Grizzard Sampler: A Collection of the Early Writings of Lewis Grizzard 4.43 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Just Enough Liebling
Just Enough Liebling 4.12 avg rating — 241 ratings
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High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese
High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese 3.94 avg rating — 181 ratings
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