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  • The Critic

    by Tim Parrish ...
    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    Tim Parrish’s “The Critic” is a slightly surrealist account of the fraught, yet creative relationship cultivated between artists and critics. We meet a music critic who has devoted his entire life to covering the career of an elusive, Bob Dylan-esque musician referred to as “The Twerp.” But as the critic begins to hear The Twerp’s voice everywhere, we learn his vocation may have turned the corner ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Fear and What Follows

    The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir

    by Tim Parrish ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, “This might be a controversial book, in the best way—controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness.”The ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Fear and What Follows

    The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir

    by Tim Parrish ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, "This might be a controversial book, in the best way--controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness."The ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Jumper

    A Novel

    by Tim Parrish ...
    The Jumper is an old-fashioned, modern novel both dark and funny. Its central character, Jimmy Strawhorn, grows up on a ranch in West Texas thinking he’s an orphan but is summoned to Baton Rouge, where he discovers his past is stranger than he can imagine.Jimmy tries to navigate his urge to jump from high places, his fear of falling in love, and a complex family history full of deceit and racial ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • North Of Normal

    A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

    by Cea Sunrise Person ...
    In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in northern Alberta. But unlike most commune dwellers of the time, the Persons weren’t trying to build a new society—they wanted to escape civilization altogether. Led by Cea’s grandfather Dick, they lived in a canvas Teepee, grew pot, and hunted and ... Read more

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  • First 50 Popular Songs You Should Play on the Piano

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  • Mortuary Confidential:

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    The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

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