Product Description: Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of shame and humiliation that we'd rather forget than relive...read more

Product Description: Each volume of The 826 Quarterly features cutting-edge writing by students in the 826 Valencia workshops, as well as budding talents from California and beyond. Printed in a hip pocket-friendly size, this edition features a different perspective on the story of Rapunzel, short fiction about elephants, a dictionary of necessary new words, the story behind a recipe for chocolate milk pizza, and a wide selection of articles from our student newspaper including investigative reports on fairies, the future, local sustainable farming, and whether Spongebob Squarepants is better than Pacman...read more

Product Description: Beth Lisick has had a lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or that remotely claims to provide self-empowerment. But on New Year's Day 2006, she wakes up finally able to admit that something has to change. Determined to confront her fears head-on, Beth sets out to fix her life by consulting the multimillion-dollar-earning experts...read more

A columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle's Web site recounts her transformation from a homecoming princess and tanned cheerleader to the only straight member of a band of punk rock lesbian poets, a homeowner, and a mother, in a personal memoir that shares her humorous observations on life within disparate cultures. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

The twelve interconnected short stories in this collection combs offices, nightclubs, malls, and suburban homes for evidence of life amongst the 'walking dead' of the modern world. By the author of Monkey Girl. Original. (view table of contents)

A spoken word artist presents observations on such topics as Valentine's Day, dead-end jobs, being picked up in a bar, and riding the bus (view table of contents)