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Best American Nonrequired Reading #2011: The Best American Nonrequired Reading by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2011, Geraldine Brooks draws the comparison between a well-told joke and a good short story. She writes, “Each form relies on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn in a few deft... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by David Brooks Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best New American Voices 2007 (Best New American Voices) by Sue Miller Publisher Comments Bestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this years volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing programs... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best New American Voices (Best New American Voices) by Mary Gaitskill Publisher Comments Critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this years volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poetry Anthology, a by Robert Bly Publisher Comments Boys feel wild; they love their tree houses, their wild spots in the woods, they all want to go down to the river, with Huck, away from domesticating aunts. Boys love to see some wildness in their fathers, to see their fathers dancing or carrying on... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments "How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Best American Nonrequired Reading) by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Best American Short Stories) by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forche Publisher Comments Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike and Katrina Kenison From Powells.com Since its debut volume 85 years ago, publication of The Best American Short Stories has been a regular literary event, providing an annual showcase for America's greatest established writers and consistently discovering and introducing the best... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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2033: Future of Misbehavior by Nervecom Publisher Comments What is the future of sex? Some of the brightest minds writing today offer their predictions in this tantalizing anthology. Rick Moody considers the repornification of Times Square, Lisa Gabriele predicts 100 percent divorce rate, Ana Marie Cox sees the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Please: Fiction Inspired by the Smiths by Peter Wild Publisher Comments As he did with Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, editor Peter Wild has pulled together an eclectic list of talented writers who take their cue from one of the worlds best loved bands—The Smiths. Please is sure to please fans of The Smiths,... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems by Jeffrey Yang Publisher Comments The year 2011 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of New Directions, and what better way to celebrate than to dive into the diversity of its poets reveling in the wonders and joys of nature. Arranged chronologically by each poet's birth, Birds, Beasts... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry / by Czeslaw Milosz Staff Pick A fine collection of Milosz's favorite poems, A Book of Luminous Things casts a wide net over time and place. It's at once an excellent book for novice readers of poetry and long-time admirers.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha Staff Pick My favorite collection of short fiction to come along in some time. Many of the stories I've gone back to again and again over the years, and plenty more I've discovered here for the first time. The book has been on my end table for a month now, and it... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (American Poets Project) by John Hollander Publisher Comments Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic "The Devil's Dictionary" quatrains to the latter-day comic... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields Publisher Comments In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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