Tin House #09: Tin House Magazine, Volume 9: Number 2
by Joshua Ferris


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A beautifully designed periodical, "Tin House" features the best writers of today alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. This issue further cements the magazine's reputation as one of the... (read more)

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The Best American Magazine Writing
by American Society Of


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In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted or prestigious than a National Magazine Award. Annually, members of the American Society of Magazine Editors, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, select... (read more)

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Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
by Kevin Smokler


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An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature in the twenty-first century. Or simply, "How do we talk about writing and reading in an age where they... (read more)

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Anthology of Chinese Literature Fro Volume 1
by Cyril Birch


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Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two... (read more)

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Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things...
by McSweeney's


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Interspersed with charts, graphs, and various crossword puzzles, A Book of Noisy Outlaws, Evil Marauders, and Some Other Things . . . features some of today's best authors spinning new tales ranging from the spooky to the strange. George Saunders tells... (read more)

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The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry
by Aliki Barnstone


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This remarkable collection features the poetry of women, across time and culture, in search of self-realization, spiritual knowledge, and communion with God, nature, or the cosmos. The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry (published in... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
by Gonzalez Echevarria


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When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and... (read more)

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CA DAO Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poety
by John Balaban


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During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war.... (read more)

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Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories
by Randall (edt) Jarrell


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In this engagingly diverse anthology, critic and poet Randall Jarrell illuminates storytelling as a fundamental human impulse. Redefining the story form in this collection of world classics, he sets ballads, poems, parables, anecdotes, fairy tales, and... (read more)

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Burned Children of America
by Zadie Smith


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This volume brings together the most promising young American authors, with a penchant for writing about such slippery subjects as snakes, letter-writing dogs, chicken livers and indoor shopping malls.... (read more)

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Pieces
by Stephen Chbosky


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MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces. This unique short-story collection is more than a good read -- it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's "Write Stuff" competition share their voices... (read more)

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Obit.: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
by Jim Sheeler


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Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he... (read more)

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The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations
by Robert Bly


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The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time. Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate... (read more)

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2033: Future of Misbehavior
by Nervecom


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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)

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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
by Neil Astley


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Staying Alive is an anthology of life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time where much in the world feels unreal and inhuman. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping... (read more)

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This Art: Poems about Poetry (Copper Canyon Press Anthology)
by Michael Wiegers


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The centuries have changed little in this art, The subjects are still the same.-Kenneth Rexroth Why poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"? Every poet, by... (read more)

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Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology
by Mary Frosch


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The acne and ecstasy of adolescence, a multicultural collection of short stories and fiction excerpts that Library Journal calls "wonderfully diverse from the standard fare." By turns touching and hilarious, the classic Coming of Age in America gathers... (read more)

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Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame
by Robin Robertson


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A writer's public life is not -- as is often thought -- a round of glamorous parties, prize-acceptance speeches, and triumphant readings to amphitheatres full of loyal, cheering fans; it is, in fact, a grim treadmill of humiliation and neglect... (read more)

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