The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass


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A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the... (read more)

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Best New American Voices 2007 (Best New American Voices)
by Sue Miller


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This year's volume, featuring 17 new stories selected by award-winning novelist John Casey, continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers.... (read more)

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Poets Against the War
by Sam Hamill


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<div>Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. Since... (read more)

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The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: Blackbook Presents Dispatches from the New Counterculture
by Aaron Hicklin




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With contributions from Augusten Burroughs, Jonathan Ames, Neal Pollack, Naomi Klein, Chuck Palahniuk and more, BlackBook magazine's tremendous compilation of Dispatches from the New Counterculture offers an edgy collection of lucid and colorful prose.... (read more)

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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
by M C Howatson


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From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, the first updating since Sir Paul Harvey's original... (read more)

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A Christmas Miscellany: A Victorian Holiday Treasury
by Ian Jackman


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A Christmas Miscellany harkens back to the magic and wonder of Christmases past. Find here a delightful grab-bag of Victorian-era stories, news clippings, poems, recipes, gift suggestions, and so much more. Inside are recipes for plum cake and cream... (read more)

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Vintage Book of War Stories
by Sebastian Faulks


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Twelve of the finest titles written around the often brutal subject of war. Each novel is a classic in its own right, and all belong together in the Vintage War Promotion series.... (read more)

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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970
by Lex Williford and Michael Martone


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Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970. Sherman Alexie • Margaret Atwood... (read more)

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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
by David Samuels


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A brilliant journalist takes us on a skewed odyssey through an american populated by idealists and outsiders in his first book, reminiscent of the classic new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Writing for Harper's magazine and the New Yorker over... (read more)

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The Best American Poetry (Best American Poetry)
by David Lehman


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Celebrated poet McHugh and renowned editor Lehman present the 20th edition of the popular and comprehensive "Best American Poetry" series.... (read more)

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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
by Harold Bloom


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This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical... (read more)

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Three American Poets
by Jonathan Bean


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A unique collection of poems from three writers living under the shadow of the Civil War Three great American poets, all of whom preferred the solitary life, and yet each responded, in very different ways, to the greatest social event of their times... (read more)

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Burnt Sugar: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
by Lori M Carlson


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This bilingual showcase of luminous 20th-century and contemporary Cuban poetry is edited by bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos. Rather than an exhaustive survey, "Burnt Sugar" is filled with the... (read more)

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The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories
by Alberto Manguel


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Internationally acclaimed anthologist Manguel offers this enjoyable collection of 23 Christmas stories from across the globe with tales by such master storytellers as Alice Munroe, Graham Greene, Truman Capote, and John Cheever.... (read more)

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The Future Dictionary of America
by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss and the staff of McSweeney's


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This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like... (read more)

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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
by Donald Keene


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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in... (read more)

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Get to Know Yourself and Transform Your Life with the Wisdom and Magical Power of Stories
by Pejman Aghasi


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Stories can heal many minor and major problems without harming the listener. By telling a story to number of people, each one of them can subjectively relate the story to their own situation and find a solution to their problem, without even the story... (read more)

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Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
by Sara Nickles


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Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's best writers embraced unsafe sex, excessive alcohol, and a good cigar. From the classically... (read more)

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