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There are a million stories in the naked city. Portland Noir collects 16 of them. The contributor list is amazing: Karen Karbo, Monica Drake, Floyd Skloot, and more. Editor Kevin Sampsell does a great job of setting the stage for the wealth of narrative... (read more)

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Purchase the hardcover edition of Who Is Mark Twain? and you'll immediately receive a link to the PDF eBook version of the book. Download the file (which can be read in any PDF reader, including Adobe Acrobat) and you'll be enjoying the book in... (read more)

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Tolkien fans don't need to be told that a new, previously unpublished work by The Master is a major event. The surprise here is that Tolkien narrates Norse mythology with the same energy, wit, and excitement with which he brings hobbits to life.... (read more)

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Read four essays from this book, sent by email or RSS, free from DailyLit! Visit DailyLit.com and sign up to read the full text of four essays from Burn This Book sent free by email or RSS in 11 installments. You'll also receive DailyLit'... (read more)

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At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, "The Book of Dads" brings together twenty well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathers--or anyone who has been or loved a parent--unrivaled insights into the complexity... (read more)

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The most dangerous writer in America* is back with an uncommon book of death and comedy. Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness... (read more)

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Sixteen original short stories by some of the most important young songwriters working today. Amplifed presents sixteen short stories by some of the most compelling songwriters performing today. With original contributions from Mary Gauthier, Chris... (read more)

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"Granta 106" will be a special issue devoted entirely to fiction. Look out for the best short stories of the year, new graphic fiction, extracts from the most exciting autumn books, and exclusive, in-depth interviews with some of the biggest names in... (read more)

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T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth centuryhe was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in... (read more)

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Of the twenty-eight essays, one section focuses on writers and literary works with stories about the Chinese, the Psalms in translation, and E.B. Whites essays, "Here Is New York." Another section continues in Weinberger's political vein with a sequel to... (read more)

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Written in the twelfth century by the Persian poet and mystic Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds tells how the birds of the world have gathered to search for a mythological king. Each of the birds represents a different human type - a coward,... (read more)

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Drawing from the insights of subaltern studies and postcolonial feminisms, Proma Tagore brings together the work of a diverse group of writers - Toni Morrison, Shani Mootoo, Louise Erdrich, M.K. Indira, Rashsundari Debi, and Mahasweta Devi. She focuses... (read more)

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Finalists for Fourth Tartt Fiction Award whose stories are included in this anthology follow: Gilbert Allen, M.S. Allen, Jacob Appel, Jerry Dubow, Valerie Fioravanti, Kathleen Toomey Jabs, Nick Healy, Tom Miller. Juvik, Sean Aden Lovelace, J. E. Robinson,... (read more)

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McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. Since then, McSweeney's has attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country. "McSweeney's Issue 31" includes a nivola from Joy Williams,... (read more)

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Today's woman loves sex--and she loves it her way. She sees what she wants and goes for it, especially when it comes to the hottest bedroom partners. Nothing is off limits, whether a man or another woman, whether one-on-one or in combinations of two or... (read more)

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From award-winning author Lee Hayes -- an erotic exploration into the lives of African-American gay men and their desires for love and acceptance. Unapologetically raw in its approach to the sexual lives and happenings of African-American gay men, Flesh... (read more)

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One of Europeas most popular and best-loved authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spirited, buoyant style and enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday to the fantastical. The eight stories in this collection... (read more)

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One hundred first-person accounts of the most daring and outrageous sex experiences the contributors have ever had.... (read more)

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The first published collection of Rudolfo Anaya's essays... (read more)

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'[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.' '"Time Out New YorkHere is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between 'the living and the living who have died' with outrage and amazement, awe and... (read more)

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In Only Love Can Break Your Heart, David Samuels writes with a reportorial acumen and stylistic flair that recall the pioneering New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion. Combining elegant, nuanced personal essays with far-out reporting... (read more)

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In this collection of 10 new stories, bestselling writers celebrate their animal friends and explore the many mysterious ways pets bring love into their humans' lives.... (read more)

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At Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, there has long been an illuminating, dynamic, ongoing exchange of ideas about the history and legacy of the Beat Generation--an exchange fortunately that has been carefully archived and... (read more)

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The Globe and Mail called the Griffin Poetry Prize “a rich tribute” to the form and “an annual report on the state of the poetry nation.” This year’s edition, featuring some of the finest work from the collections of... (read more)

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Elena Fanailova's poems take on topics ranging from the pleasures and disasters of daily life to political spectacle and aesthetic triumph. They push to new limits a longstanding trend in Russian poetry of introducing more conversational and colorful... (read more)

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In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the... (read more)

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NONFICTION FROM “ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND MOST ARRESTING PROSE TALENTS OF HIS GENERATION” (LARRY MCMURTRY) Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are... (read more)

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Sensuality CARAMEL FLAVA II Like Chocolate Flava and Caramel Flava, Sensuality: Caramel Flava II is a delicious assortment of fun, sensual stories by Zane and a select assortment of talented erotica authors. This anthology includes tales written... (read more)

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Ideal for undergraduate students, this is a comprehensive introduction to the influential work of Homi K. Bhabha, a key figure in both post-colonial and post-structuralist theory. Like other titles in the Transitions series, the book first outlines the... (read more)

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The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still with us and the solutions no nearer to hand. One of the insistent themes of this book is the interdependence, the... (read more)

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Hey! My name is Davy. I make a magazine called "Found." We publish notes & letters that folks find on the street. I asked my favorite writers, musicians, artists & entertainers to tell me about the things they've found. These are the stories they've... (read more)

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My work has been motivated, Wendell Berry has written, by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place. In Home Economics, a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores this process and continues to... (read more)

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In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called “journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature.” Hechts collection of sixty-four of these pieces, illustrated with striking pen... (read more)

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In this lively, fascinating account of the publication of Shakespeares Sonnets, noted biographer Clinton Heylin brings their convoluted history to light, beginning with the first complete appearance of the Sonnets in print in May, 1609. He introduces us... (read more)

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In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting... (read more)

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Sparkling with sharp wit and off-kilter humor, this emotional collection shows a distinctly contemporary and urban Jamaica through the eyes of a surrealist whose sharp imagery and precise language expose the absurdities and contradictions of society... (read more)

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Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers the first collection devoted to the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic... (read more)

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This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about... (read more)

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Shakespeare's sonnets are thought to have been written for a private audience across several years, before being published in 1609. The verses that compose the sonnets are often subversive, elusive, and intimate, shaping an erotic body of poetry in the... (read more)

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Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land... (read more)

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Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554–1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems, long out of print, are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare,... (read more)

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Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. His classic work, Montaigne in Motion, is a subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose... (read more)

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Breaking communication into its most discrete components, this collection of poems deeply examines forced loss, violence, and impoverishment. Exposing hidden relations in sound and sense, the language in this anthology communicates more than just ideas... (read more)

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This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late forties, he began publishing the work he'd been producing... (read more)

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Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poems and poetry through her... (read more)

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Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher... (read more)

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A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a... (read more)

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With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences, this new translation offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surrealism, and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaud's esteemed position. As a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive power and innocence,... (read more)

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This anthology includes 24 short stories and novel excerpts about modern India, from such award-winning writers as Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Original.... (read more)

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Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poems and poetry through her... (read more)

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San Antonians love Cary Clack for the sparkle of wit and wisdom he brings to them in his column in the "San Antonio Express-News." But his style and sensibility make his work equally popular far beyond that city. He offers pithy, probing coverage of... (read more)

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From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short... (read more)

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Steven Loza explores how the iconic aspects of religion transcend mere symbolism with a collection of essays that examine the arts and their relationship to religious belief in three cultural areas of the world: the Mexican mestizo belief in the Virgen... (read more)

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This volume gathers together some of the most powerful poems from the greatest Russian poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Arranged by theme and presented in the best available translations, this collection offers an ideal introduction to the mastery... (read more)

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Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new--and in his own words dangerous--hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris,... (read more)

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"The Writer's Notebook" combines the best craft seminars from the Summer Writers Workshop's history with craft essays by some of Tin House's favorite authors and features a list of contributors that reads like a veritable who's who of contemporary poets... (read more)

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In the first half of the twentieth century Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of Americas best loved, most widely read, and highly paid writers. Her short works appeared in such major journals as Ladies Home Journal, Harpers Weekly, The American Magazine... (read more)

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A brilliant anthology featuring manga-inspired fiction from today's best writers with artwork from top manga creators, including ECCO, by Tatsuhiko Takimoto (illustrated by D.K): Is life nothing but a cruel joke? One young rebel decides to find out... (read more)

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The Indian Hater and Other Stories, by James Hall returns to print an important and popular writer from an often-overlooked moment in American literary history. In the decades before the Civil War, when readers and writers in both the United States and... (read more)

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Imaginary Maps reveals a city haunted by monsters, movie stars and jilted lovers; a city where hope and rage, sacred and carnal, mundane and surreal are uneasy neighbours. One with a downtown that swells with pleasures and pains too big for words, where... (read more)

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Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and... (read more)

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