Brownie on the Orange Crate

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Bernell Warren

Community & Culture

Creative Arts Book Company

<p>A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable.</p>

The Criminal

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jim Thompson

Mystery

From the author of Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them.With its chilling portrait of a doomed man sorting his way among the perverse loyalties of a criminal "family," Black Friday has all the earmarks of David Goodis's classics, Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player.  It is a haunting and often devastating foray into a world where no one has anything left to lose and survival itself is an act of malice.

Black Friday

David Goodis

Street of No Return

Geoffrey O'Brien

The title comes from Revelations 6:8, which in the King James Version says, "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."  Hook is that each section starts with "His name was" or "Her name was." The book begins, "Her name was Joyce Dugan, and at four o'clock on this February afternoon she had no remote thought that within the hour before closing time she was about to commit an act that would instigate a chain of murders." The last section, just a couple of pages long, begins, "His name was Death, and he waited for ____."  After Dugan, the focus moves around a few other people, primarily her boss, Darius Conn, who runs a print shop. The year before he'd killed his wife and gotten away with it, and now he's feeling bold and very confident. He's got a plan, and no-one's going to get in his way.

His Name Was Death

Fredric Brown

First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, Fast One by Paul Cain (one of the mystery men of American literature) explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge in American fiction. Paul Cain is the pseudonym of Peter Ruric, a man who emerged from nowhere in the 1930s, wrote Fast One and several short stories and movie scripts, and then disappeared. Nothing more has been heard of him. Gerry Kells, the antihero of his shocking, brutal novel, is equally mysterious. A loner with a reputation but without a visible past, Kells simply appears, rearranges the lives of the Los Angeles underworld, and then is heard no more. Only the strong prosper in the world of the depression. Seemingly amoral, Kells does prosper. He strikes to survive, kills without conscience, without time for conscience. But he never becomes a mere killing machine. His integrity, his humanity, abides in a code demanding that he pay for all services: those rendered for him, those rendered against him. Fast paced and very readable, the novel limns a true character who should take his place in our national literature, if only for his representation of the individual will to survive in one of the toughest times in American life.

Fast One

Literature & Fiction

Cain, Paul

Short Stories & Anthologies

<p>Fiction. Holy Lunker Catfish! The Great American eco-novel starring the legendary bottom feeder Old Shithead has just been re-released. In a manner reminiscent of Ed Abbey, a wacky castof monkeywrenching characters battles the Anal General's forces of Industrial Cheese to preserve a metaphoric fish that's larger than usall. A cult-classic of Guerilla Lit and one hell of a fish story!</p>

Bottom Feeder

Spitzer, Mark

Mythology & Folk Tales

Basic Principles of Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Moreno, Francisco José

Politics & Government

Poetry. Sandy Diamond rants, whispers and tricks us into her scary, hilarious life as THE HUNCHBACK. Kerouac lifts her braid in an asylum; the highway patrol is always in her rear view mirror, on the tail of her fraudulent body. A man talking to his dog about death, a press conference for the Small People of America, a deli full of refugees criticizing the thickness of a blintz, the poet -- fractured -- lurches on her crooked path, cracking jokes, scrambling for wholeness in her Minnie Mouse slippers. Read these poems and you'll never feel the same about pain pills, postage stamps, revolving doors, truck logos, graphology, chopped liver, wooden eyes, and of course hunchbacks, again.

The Hunchback

Diamond, Sandy

Poetry

Poetry. Translation. Translated from the French by Mark Spitzer. One of the many common beliefs about History's mostmythic poet is that he gave up writing after vanishing from France.After 130 years of misinformation, FROM ABSINTHE TO ABYSSINIA dispels this rumor and others by presenting works of Rimbaud's post-Paris prosethat have never before been seen in English. This collection, translated by Mark Spitzer, alsoincludes a section of poetry which includes highly innovative versionsof some of the poet's most well-known works, as well as many shockingand erotic poems that English-language readers have never had access toprior to the publication of these groundbreaking translations.

From Absinthe To Abyssinia: Selected Miscellaneous, Obscure and Previously Untranslated Works of Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud

Rimbaud,Arthur

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