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ZYZZYVA 2011 Bundle

ZYZZYVA 2011 Bundle
The Whole Year for $30

Just in time for holiday gift-giving, we offer the Spring, Fall and Winter issues, specially packaged with a ZYZZYVA greeting card. Featuring stories from Tom Bissell, Erika Recordon, Tom Barbash, Karen Joy Fowler, Will Boast, Katie Chase, Malena Watrous, David Guterson, Susan Berman, Josh DuBose, Vanessa Hua, and Adam Johnson; poetry by Matthew Dickman, Jeanette Allee, W.S. Di Piero, Robin Ekiss, Troy Jollimore, Heather Altfeld, Floyd Skloot, Carl Adamshick; nonfiction from Stephen Elliott, Jill Storey, Carter Scholz, Paula Priamos, Gary Soto, and art by Owen Smith, Richard Misrach, Katy Grannan, Julio Cesar Morales, Sandow Birk, Carson Murdach, Reid Yalom, Susan Seubert, and Monica Denevan. Supplies are limited. $30 + $5 shipping.

ZYZZYVA 2010 Bundle

ZYZZYVA 2010 Bundle
The Whole Year for $15

Special pricing for the holidays! Get our Spring, Fall and Winter issues from 2010, specially packaged for gift-giving. Featuring stories from Joshua Mohr, Nina Schuyler, Willy Lizarraga, and Karl Taro Greenfeld; nonfiction from Tupelo Hassman and J. Tony Serra; poetry from Strawberry Saroyan, Rick Barot, Francisco X. Alarcon, and Juan Felipe Herrera, and art from Barry Gifford, Michael Gregory, Laurie Anderson, and Dennis Ledbetter’s stunning portraiture of artists and writers. Supplies are limited. $15 + $5 shipping.

ZYZZYVA Anniversary Anthologies

Fine writing by our stellar contributors presented in single volumes. Get one while they last.

Strange Attraction

Strange Attraction:
The Best of Ten Years of ZYZZYVA

Features poetry, fiction, scripts, and essays from more than 40 writers, including Francisco X. Alarcón, Sherman Alexie, Kate Braverman, Po Bronson, Dennis Cooper, Peter Coyote, Tess Gallagher, Philip Kan Gotanda, Thom Gunn, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, August Kleinzahler, Philip Levine, Jess Mowry, Gary Snyder, Octavio Solis, Elizabeth Tallent, William Vollman, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and others. $20 (338 pages; paperback). Free shipping.

AutoBioDiversity

AutoBioDiversity:
True Stories from ZYZZYVA

27 autobiographical pieces commemorate Z's 20th anniversary. Featuring F.X. Toole (on being a cut man in boxing), Brenda Webster (on psychoanalysis as a way of life), Judith Barrington (on life as a "soft butch" lesbian), plus Victor Davis Hanson, Susan Parker, Eve Pell, and many others. $14.95 (272 pages, paperback). Free shipping. Limited supply.

The Writer's Notebook

The Writer's Notebook

Facsimile pages from the working notebooks of 16 authors, with introductions. Featuring Sherman Alexie, Dorothy Allison, Po Bronson, Ethan Canin, Katherine Dunn, Kathy Acker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Martin Cruz Smith, Gary Snyder, and many others. $12 (249 pages; paperback). Free shipping. Limited supply.

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Roots and Branches

Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays
by West Coast Writers

"A superb collection" —George Plimpton

"[It] will carry you happily through the insomnias of the night. You will emerge refreshed and smarter than you were the day before. This is a terrific book of essays." —William Kittredge

More than 30 essays by such writers as Blair Fuller (who recalls an early experiment with LSD), David Harris (on doing time as a war resister), Paula Gunn Allen (who explores her Lebanese heritage in New Mexico), plus Bill Berkson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Soto, David Rains Wallace, Peter Coyote, James D. Houston, and others. $10.95 (286 pages; paperback). Free shipping. Very limited supply!

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Past Contributors

Aimee Bender, Sherman Alexie, Po Bronson, Daniel Handler, Adam Hochschild, Adrienne Rich, Kay Ryan, Jess Mowry, F.X. Toole, Octavio Solis, Robert Hass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wanda Coleman, Doug Dorst, Quincy Troupe, Raymond Carver, Michael McClure, Francisco X. Alarcon, Kate Braverman, Tamim Ansary, Rudolfo Anaya, Anthony Swofford, Blair Fuller, Brenda Webster, Richard Rodriguez, Elizabeth McKenzie, Sallie Tisdale, Tim Farrington, Victor Davis Hanson, Tess Gallagher, Culture Clash, Marilyn Chin, Dorianne Lux, Justin Chin, William T. Vollmann, Greg Sarris, Dorothy Allison, Rae Armantrout, Frances Mayes, Dagoberto Gilb, Jane Hirshfield, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Denise Levertove, David James Duncan, devorah major, Charles Johnson, Kathy Acker, Peter Coyote, Martin Cruz Smith, August Kleinzahler, James D. Houston, Dennis Cooper, Victor Villasenor, Philip Levine, Paul Bowles, Vikram Seth, Kobo Abe, Elizabeth Tallent, Isabel Allende, Molly Giles, Dodie Bellamy, Barry Lopez, Gilbert Sorrentino, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cherrie Moraga, Nathaniel Mackey, Gary Soto, Leonard Michaels, Howard Goldblatt, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ishmael Reed, John L'Heureux, W.S. Di Piero, Philip Kan Gotanda, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Neeli Cherkovski, Gina Berriault, Juan Felipe Herrera, Haruki Murakami, Judith Freeman, Thom Gunn, Lynn Freed, Amy Hempel. Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Jessica Hagedorn, Tom Clark, Michael Wolfe, Alice Walker, Barry Gifford, M.F.K. Fisher

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