<div>&ldquo;A gem&rdquo; of a collection of marijuana stories, poems and artwork by Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Linda Yablonsky, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and others (New York Journal of Books). It&rsquo;s known by many names: Pot. Grass. Hash. Hemp. Reefer. Ganja. Dope. Weed. Smoke. Spliff. Mary Jane. Tea. Blunt. And it has played just as many parts in the mind of the public, from Reefer Madness to medical marijuana. Here is a collection of new works as diverse and provocative as the drug itself. From Joyce Carol Oates&rsquo;s &ldquo;High&rdquo; to Dean Haspiel&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cannibal Sativa&rdquo;; from Maggie Estep&rsquo;s &ldquo;Zombie Hookers of Hudson&rdquo; to Philip Spitzer&rsquo;s &ldquo;Tips for the Pot-Smoking Traveler,&rdquo; this collection explores the drug in its many forms and varietals. In prose, pictures, stories, and poems, you can delve into the folklore and the facts, rich cultural history, and dramas personal, political, spiritual, and legal. Like Dave Chappelle says: &ldquo;Hey, hey, hey. Smoke weed every day.&rdquo; </div>

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<div>In this wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prizewinning poet poignantly looks back at his adolescent surfing years. As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad Ziolkowski decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. In the meager cold waves, he contemplates how he could have possibly become a semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man when, for a few shining years of his boyhood, he was invincible. His lapsed love affair with the ocean begins amid the late-sixties counterculture in coastal Florida. After his parents&rsquo; divorce, nine-year-old Thad escapes from his difficult family&mdash;notably a new brooding and explosive stepfather&mdash;by heading for the thrilling, uncharted waters of the local beach. In the embrace of the surf, he is able to stay offshore for years, until his life is upended once again, this time by a double tragedy that deposits him at a crossroads between a life in the waves and a life on land. Lyrical and disarmingly funny, On a Wave is a glorious portrait of youth that reminds readers of Tobias Wolff&rsquo;s This Boy&rsquo;s Life and Frank Conroy&rsquo;s Stop-Time. &ldquo;A sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

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<div>&ldquo;A wild rumpus of a book . . . an exuberant American tale of brothers wrestling demons and each other on opposite poles of their grab bag of a family&rdquo; (PANK Magazine). Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by his girlfriend and in flight from the pressures exerted by his ambitious professor father, Lewis returns to Wichita in search of respite at the home of his New-Ager mother, Abby. But when Abby picks Lewis up from the airport, she reveals that she&rsquo;s starting a storm-chasing business and indulging a polyamorous lifestyle. Another unexpected arrival is Seth, Lewis&rsquo;s bipolar younger brother, who shows off a new tattoo on his chest: In Loving Memory of Seth Chopik. Things begin to resemble the land of Oz more than Wichita when Lewis, while minding Seth, joins Abby in the Flint Hills on a storm-chase with her first client. &ldquo;[An] honest and raw look at brotherhood and what it means to rediscover your family.&rdquo; &mdash;O, The Oprah Magazine &ldquo;The world of Wichita is rich, subtle, and funny, . . . This is a truly striking novel.&rdquo;&mdash;Sam Lipsyte, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Wichita is a novel about expectations and outcomes, about what is open and what is veiled. Its emotional terrain is touching and vast.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Ziolkowski&rsquo;s humor and trenchant observations make for startlingly gorgeous (and often hilarious) prose even in the midst of emergencies.&rdquo; &mdash;Interview Magazine &ldquo;[A] sparkling debut . . . There&rsquo;s never a dull moment in a novel which fires us up with snappy and often very funny dialogue.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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<div>In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them. Addiction is arguably the dominant feature of contemporary life: sex, gambling, exercise, eating, shopping, Internet use&#8212;there's virtually no pleasurable activity that can't morph into a destructive obsession. For Americans under the age of fifty-five, the leading cause of death is drug overdose. But there is another side of addiction.In some instances, the very activities that can lead to addiction can also lead out of it. As neurologists have recently discovered, surfing is a kind of study in the mechanism of addiction, delivering dopamine to the "pleasure" center of the brain and reshaping priorities and desire in a feedback loop of narrowing focus. Thad Ziolkowski knows this dynamic intimately. A lifelong surfer, he has been surrounded by addiction since his boyhood. In this unique, groundbreaking book, part addiction memoir, part sociological study, part spiritual odyssey, Ziolkowski dismantles the myth of surfing as a radiantly wholesome lifestyle immune to the darker temptations of the culture and discovers among the rubble a new way to understand and ultimately overcome addiction. Combining his own story with insights from scientists, progressive thinkers and the experiences of top surfers and addicts from around the world, Ziolkowski shows how getting on a board and catching a wave is a unique and deeply instructive means of riding out of the darkness and back into the light. Yet while surfing is his salvation, its lessons can applied to other activities that can pull us free from the lethal undertow of addiction and save lives. </div>

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