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The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and Some That May Not Be Funny at All by Judd Apatow Synopsis "I Found This Funny" is a compilation of work by some of Apatow's favorite authors. Featured writers include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Conan O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Paul Feig, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, and many others.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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20 under 40: Stories from the New Yorker by Deborah Treisman Publisher Comments In June 2010, the editors of the New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard Publisher Comments Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Fiction: 50 Short Stories Since 1970 by Lex Williford and Michael Martone Publisher Comments Selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors.... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri (Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri) by James Thomas Publisher Comments My sense in reading the assemblage of stories collected here is that the Western short story is still very much finding its way--which is, I think, as it should be. Only miracles--like Annie Proulx's] Sagebrush Kid--can be expected to leap fully formed... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The 50 Funniest American Writers by Andy Borowitz Publisher Comments Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh? Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are America's fifty funniest writers-according to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark Twain and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns by Jenny Offill Publisher Comments The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for womens friendships. Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology,... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Central Park: An Anthology by Andrew (edt) Blauner Publisher Comments A wild night outdoors with Bill Buford. A football tradition with Nathaniel Rich. A jog around the reservoir with Mark Helprin as he "protects" Jacqueline Onassis from imagined harm. The 843 carefully planned acres of Central Park have not only crept... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too) by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments Humor Me is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen—and funnywomen—of the page. Selected by the renowned humor-ist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book includes... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Century of Great Western Stories by John Jakes Publisher Comments John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters Publisher Comments Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. Featuring: Jack... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Best American Nonrequired Reading) by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Major American Short Stories by A Walton Litz Publisher Comments Strongly emphasizing the works of major writers such as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Irving, Twain, and Faulkner, this latest edition of a remarkably successful text ranges from the traditional to the modern experimental fictions of Barth, Barthelme, and... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brooklyn Was Mine by Valerie Steiker Publisher Comments A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers. Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford Publisher Comments An exceptional showcase of topflight memoir, literary journalism, personal essay, and cultural criticism, this uniquely comprehensive collection is the first and only creative nonfiction volume to cover all genres, from magazine writing to book excerpts.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West by Linda M Hasselstrom Publisher Comments In the true stories, essays, and poems of Leaning into the Wind we meet the real women of the High Plains today. Included are reflections on cowboys, tractor-driving lessons, outhouses, ranch marriages, and family legacies.... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future Dictionary of America by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss and the staff of McSweeney's Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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