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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace is arguably the most accessible, intelligent, versatile writer working today. Never mind just now his novels and stories, or his "compact history" of infinity. In Consider the Lobster, he insinuates himself among actors, actresses... (read more)

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
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Self-Reliance, and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
by Kate Bernheimer
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Neil Gaiman! Aimee Bender! Kelly Link! Michael Cunningham! It's impossible to list the contributors to this book without using exclamation points. This wickedly entertaining collection reclaims fairy tales from the children's library and reaffirms their... (read more)

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The Braindead Megaphone
by George Saunders
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Pulphead: Essays
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more)

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by Pablo Neruda
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by Ingeborg Bachmann
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