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Midnight At Hotel Eklund

Life is an unclear path to be blazed by the wanderer who knows if there is a god beyond the clouds, there's no intervening with destiny. Laudati is that constant migrant, accepting fate as an end that…

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Play The Devil

Play The Devil is the debut novel from Scott Laudati. A semi-autobiographical tale of two best friends traversing the backyards of New Jersey in search of the American Dream. Like a 200 page Bruce Spr…

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Camp Winapooka

Camp Winapooka is the third book of poetry by Scott Laudati. Topics include New York City, love, wildlife, politics, dogs, history, 9/11, Occupy Wall Street, punk rock, nihilism and hope.

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Baby, Bring Back 1997

Baby, Bring Back 1997 is a collection of stories by Scott Laudati that weaves between personal memoir and illuminating journalism, pointing a spotlight on a generation constantly plagued and always tr…

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#1 Spacegirl!

Edition of 50 copies. Cover illustration by Drew Alexander Ennis.

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Bone House

Bone House is the second collection of poems by Scott Laudati. Topics include celebrity, love, dogs, New York City, youth, drugs and faith.

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Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair

Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair is the debut book of poems by Scott Laudati. Topics include his dog, New York City, aliens, death, New Jersey, love, heroin and pizza.

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Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair

Poems by Scott Laudati

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The Ever Present Collapse

These poems composed in an impressive spontaneous style reveal profundity of thoughts. Due to so much diversity and variety, this poetry collection is without monotony.

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind

In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Ca…

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Less Than Zero

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation that experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, growing up in a…

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The Sun Also Rises

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at…

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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won - a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory

In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon…

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