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      October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature

      Carlo Rotella

      Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. Chicago was becoming ‘an October sort of city even in the spring’. Narratives of decline…

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      Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt

      Carlo Rotella

      Explores women’s boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy Guy and the blues scene in Chicago; police work and crime stories in New York City, especially as they converged in the making…

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      The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

      Carlo Rotella

      Blending journalism, memoir, and archival research, The World Is Always Coming to an End uses the story of one American neighborhood to challenge our assumptions about what neighborhoods are, and…

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      Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

      Carlo Rotella

      Chronicles the author’s immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, he unearths the…

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      Playing in Time

      Carlo Rotella

      From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns, this book delivers two dozen…

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      The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

      Carlo Rotella

      A close look at an urban neighborhood in Chicago, South Shore, and the author’s own relationship to that neighborhood from living there as a child and studying it as an…

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      The Bittersweet Science - Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside

      Carlo Rotella,Michael Ezra,Michael Ezra

      Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport-and…

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      Everyday Parenting Toolkit, The

      Alan E. Kazdin,Carlo Rotella

      The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child is the gold standard for research-backed advice on being a better parent for difficult children. But what about children who are not…

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      Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight

      Jack Vance

      Earth is a decadent world older than memory, the bloated red sun soon to wink out forever. Iucounu the Laughing Magician has for the second time magicked Cugel the Clever…

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      We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature

      Kiara Kharpertian

      We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012.

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