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A radically inventive excavation of one man’s life and our relationship to the earth by the critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld Justin Hocking grew up in a part o…

In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the PennySaver, the iconic classifieds booklet that reached everywhere and seemed to come from nowhere. Who was the person selling the "Large Leather Jacket, $10"? It seemed important to find out—or at least it was a great distraction from the screenplay.Accompanied by photographer Brigitte Sire, July crisscrossed Los Angeles to meet a random selection of PennySaver sellers, glimpsing thirteen surprisingly moving and profoundly specific realities, along the way shaping her film, and herself, in unexpected ways.Elegantly blending narrative, interviews, and photographs with July's off-kilter honesty and deadpan humor, this is a story of procrastination and inspiration, isolation and connection, and grabbing hold of the invisible world. Check out this preview of the paperback edition! Read Miranda's GQ (UK) interview. You can get the inside scoop on the book with this series of excerpts on the New Yorker's Book Bench, or find about the book-inspired store that July started. And, to hear it from July herself, check out this Book Beast interview.Praise for It Chooses You:Voted a "Can't Miss Read for December 2011" by Oprah Magazine. "July, an artist, writer, performer and film-maker who creates work 'about people trying to connect in one way or another and the importance of that' has moved from casual wondering to something substantive and extraordinary."—Hermione Hoby, The Guardian"Captivatingly original... a sort of documentary memoir in which July, an actor and director as well as a writer, affectionately celebrates the upside of eccentricity."—Gale Walden, O magazine "From the outside what she’s doing is such a small and seemingly trivial thing, but from the inside of it, it’s absolutely everything. It becomes grand in scale and importance. Everything hinges on July’s ability to not only make it through the Pennysaver obstacle course she’s set up for herself, but to make sense of it at the end." —Sundance Channel

A counterculture cookbook for these strange times.  Mixing memoir and loose recipes, this book intends to inspire a “free” approach to cooking and eating. A literally down-to-earth approach – as in: food grown, purchased, cooked, and consumed with an awareness of the Earth. A reflection

Tibetan Nomad: Memoir of a Tangled Hair Woman - Kindle edition by Lala, Norzom. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Tibetan Nomad: Memoir of a Tangled Hair Woman.

NOTE(s) in reverse chronological order: A third printing (black and white interior on smooth ivory paper, offset color dust jackets, with new material!) is out now, spring 2025. Please write to twoplumpress@gmail.com for future wholesale inquiries. The second printing is now sold out, Decemb

Amazon.com: Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading eBook : Asparouhova, Nadia, Benkhedda, Leïth: Kindle Store

Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and c...

Hunting Seasons [Lang Gore] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hunting Seasons

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world.   How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radic...

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Review “I read Peter Miller's joyful meditation on washing dishes, went out and bought a new dish rack, and am serenely scrubbing away. How to Wash the Dishes is a tiny, perfect book.”—Mara Liasson, NPR“The most delightful book we’ve seen all year.”—Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s Good Food “A cheeky little book you’ll wa

Focuses on modern society's techno-war against indigenous peoples, arguing that such peoples' philosophy of the sacredness of the natural world offers a way to recover

Written by a premier group of 21 thinkers from around the world, the second edition of Alternatives to Economic Globalization lays out democratic, ecologically sound, socially just alternatives to corporate globalization more fully, specifically, and thoughtfully than has ever been done before. F...

Creative Ideas: A Spiritual Compass for Personal Expression (New Thought Science of Mind Classics) - Kindle edition by Holmes, Ernest, Jennings, Jesse. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Creative Ideas: A Spiritual Compass for Personal Expression (New Thought Science of Mind Classics).

In Roam, published by Patagonia, Hillary Rosner explores the impact of barriers on animals and efforts to create landscapes where they can move freely.

In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the med...

Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys [Coulombe, Joe, Civalleri, Patty] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

Great Callings: What's Keeping You? - Kindle edition by Wiest, Brianna . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Great Callings: What's Keeping You?.

Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the very origins of our species, through a...

Artists as Writers: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life - Kindle edition by Rodney, Seph, Fullwood, Steven G. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Artists as Writers: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life.

In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late ...

Amazon.com: Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age eBook : Harjo, Joy: Kindle Store

Never Play It Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love [Jarvis, Chase] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Never Play It Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love

Safer Sex for the Non-Monogamous (The Polyamory on Purpose Guides) [Mahler, Jess] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Safer Sex for the Non-Monogamous (The Polyamory on Purpose Guides)

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty - Kindle edition by Browne, Harry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty.