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What’s in the trunkof your car? imaginarium of LaoTzu

Who would play you in a movie? Pete Postlethwaite

Using only one word, describe yourself. scattershot

Author you love to hate: The ignoble Mitch Albom

Theme song to your life: "Blown-out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole" by A Silver Mt. Zion

What’s your favorite smell? baking cowpies

What’s your porn star name? Rascal Price

If you had a superpower, what would it be? green thumbs

Favorite pair of shoes (past or present): Abused pair of 1970s brown slouched cowboy boots

What’s your sign? Aquariusdouble-plus-good

Stick or Automatic? Depends on who's drivin'

What do you think your job is at Left Bank Books? book catapultist

 

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (Paperback)

By Dubravka Ugresic, Ellen Elias-Bursac
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802145208
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Published: Grove Press, 1/2011
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Oh Baba Yaga...let all Old Souls Unite! Dubravka Ugresic's Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is as refreshingly "nontraditional" as one could hope possible. A sample of its delightful innards suffices more than my opinion:

Coming face to face with an old lady on a floating lounger, wearing white socks and a swimming costume from which the Telebtubbies gazed out at him, for a moment Mevludin felt as though he were in the presence of some ancient divinity. 

The novel concludes with critical reading of a fictitious folklorist based in Finland. Her name is Dr. Aba Bagay. 

The Chronology of Water: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780979018831
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Hawthorne Books, 4/2011
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The Chronology of Water is thumbs up the best memoir I’ve ever read. (Kathleen Finneran’s The Tender Land a close second.) Raw and unapologetic, this meditation of a wet brain chokes the throat and palpitates the pit of secret closets. Lidia Yuknavitch demonstrates the capacity of creativity to rip open, set bones and heal old wounds. Her chronology, by all means heterodox, assumes like a fish out of water that a child sometimes must build family from ash and anger, and learn how to breathe on land, let go or find other waters.

The Box Man (Paperback)

By Kobo Abe
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375726514
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Published: Vintage, 7/2001
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Tokyo’s streets are haunted by a man who cuts windows out of sleek-oiled cardboard boxes, enclosing himself in makeshift mobile residence. Crouching under windows, stairwells, railway stations he never looks up and out. He peers out and down instead, fidgeting snapshots through vinyl viewfinder slits Photogenic legs, torsos exposed, other box men. The fake me becomes something not at all myself when I put on the box, he discloses. The Box Man by Kobo Abe is brilliantly rendered spectacle noir arresting as a peeping tom.

The Boneshaker (Hardcover)

By Kate Milford, Andrea Offermann
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780547241876
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Published: Clarion Books, 5/2010
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The Boneshaker by Kate Milford is not only a beautiful book physically with illustrations by Andrea Offermann, but also a highly imaginative coming of age story set in turn-of-the-century Missouri. Think Something Wicked This Way Comes minus the scary tattoo'd man. Magic, plagues, apothecaries and Old Nick set up shop around town, spinning webs of mischief, coining favors, hand-selling souls. Arcane, "The Town at the Crossroads" and Dr. Jake Limberleg’s Nostrum Fair and Technological Medicine Show are changed forever by the antics and courageous zeal emitted by the young freckle-faced, automata-loving Natalie Minks.
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