Ham On RyeWordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther. Los Angeles Times Book Review In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne riddled

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Fitzgerald fell hard for his “Shielah” (he never learned to spell her name)

and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

Tris attempts to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness

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This acclaimed middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 8