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Alligator Tears

A Memoir in Essays

by Edgar Gomez ...

**A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual“Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today**“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven & ... Read more

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**A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual“Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today**“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven &
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High-Risk Homosexual

A Memoir

by Edgar Gomez ...

***Winner of the American Book Award**Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography*An Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book AwardThis witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo—from a cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.—and the bath ... Read more

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***Winner of the American Book Award**Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography*An Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book AwardThis witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo—from a cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.—and the bath
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Digital Photography and Everyday Life

Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices

Edited by Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio ...

Series series Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical studies on material visual practices explores the role that digital photography plays within everyday life.With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a range of academic disciplines - including anthropology, media studies and visual culture - this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective on photography by situating the ... Read more

$81.06 CAD

Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical studies on material visual practices explores the role that digital photography plays within everyday life.With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a range of academic disciplines - including anthropology, media studies and visual culture - this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective on photography by situating the
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Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research

Edited by Edgar Gómez Cruz, Shanti Sumartojo, Sarah Pink ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been ... Read more

$59.99 CAD

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been
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Ploughshares Spring 2019 Guest-Edited by Rigoberto González

by Rigoberto González, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui, Joy Castro, Emily Raboteau, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Serkan Gorkemli, Brock Clarke, Daniel Chacón, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Paul Tran, Alice Elliott Dark, Serkan GÖrkemli, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Edgar Gomez, Marcos Gonsalez, Jonathan Winston Jones, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Sara Borjas, Sarah Burke, Andrés Cerpa, Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, Geffrey Davis, Paul Guest, Kimiko Hahn, James Allen Hall, Safia Jama, Ilya Kaminsky, Jennifer L. Knox, Rachel McKibbens, Rajiv Mohabir, Nkosi Nkululeko, Julian Randall, Jayme Ringleb, Viplav Saini, Callie Siskel, Jake Skeets, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Marcus Wicker, Lisa Mullenneaux ...

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor ... Read more

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Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor
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Alligator Tears

A Memoir in Essays

by Edgar Gomez ...

Narrated by Edgar Gomez ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

**A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual“Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today**“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven & ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

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**A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual“Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today**“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven &
... Read more

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High-Risk Homosexual

A Memoir

by Edgar Gomez ...

Narrated by Edgar Gomez ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold onto pride for survival, but excessive male pride is ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold onto pride for survival, but excessive male pride is
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

A Memoir

by Ai Weiwei ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Unabridged

13 hours 7 min

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’
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I Am the Ghost Here

Stories

by Kim Samek ...

Narrated by Chandler Gregoire ...

Unabridged

5 hours 16 min

“The debut by Pushcart-winning short story writer Kim Samek blends subversive humor with the absurd in a memorable collection of stories. . . . Recommended for fans of Ben Loory and Aimee Bender.”—Los Angeles Times (20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026)A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Alta, The Millions, Debutiful, Lit Hub, The Seattle TimesA woman's limbs disappear into “the cloud” during wildfire ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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“The debut by Pushcart-winning short story writer Kim Samek blends subversive humor with the absurd in a memorable collection of stories. . . . Recommended for fans of Ben Loory and Aimee Bender.”—Los Angeles Times (20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026)A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Alta, The Millions, Debutiful, Lit Hub, The Seattle TimesA woman's limbs disappear into “the cloud” during wildfire
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Speaking in Tongues

by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos ...

Narrated by M.L. Sanchez ...

Unabridged

2 hours 38 min

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues—taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimópulos—examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the ... Read more

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Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues—taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimópulos—examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the
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An Oral History of Atlantis

Stories

by Ed Park ...

Narrated by Cindy Cheung, Raphael Corkhill, Pete Cross, Arthur Morey, Lee Osorio, Gabrielle De Cuir, Raymond J. Lee, Shannon Tyo, Jamie K. Brown ...

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, ... ... Read more

$24.95 CAD

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, ...
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The End Is the Beginning

A Personal History of My Mother

by Jill Bialosky ...

Narrated by Jill Bialosky ...

Unabridged

9 hours 17 min

Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the “tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir” (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide**, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother’s life, told in reverse order from burial to birth.**When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29, 2020, it unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter, Jill Bialosky. Grief, of course, but also ... Read more

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Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the “tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir” (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide**, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother’s life, told in reverse order from burial to birth.**When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29, 2020, it unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter, Jill Bialosky. Grief, of course, but also
... Read more

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