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Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan Staff Pick 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Staff Pick A luminary of American poetry, Emily Dickinson is canonized for good reason. Her poems are vital, wildly eccentric, and filled with her rich and complex imagination. Absolutely essential.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slouching towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion Staff Pick Joan Didion's lucid, canny prose style is painstakingly situated around the art of the sentence. Slouching towards Bethlehem, her first collection of nonfiction, serves as a prime example of exactly how well she can wield one. Each of these essays... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor by Pablo Neruda Staff Pick A master at expressing the sublime melding of romantic and physical love, Neruda knows the agony, ache, joy, comfort, and desire that characterize our most heightened emotions.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Twenty-two of Malcolm Gladwell's favorite "adventures," all previously published in the New Yorker, come together in this engaging book. Gladwell's contagious curiosity helps us understand how other people feel about the topics of homelessness, ketchup... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace Staff Pick 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Self-Reliance, and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ralph Waldo Emerson Staff Pick Self-Reliance and Other Essays contains selections from both Emerson's First and Second Series, plus the Harvard Divinity School Address. This little gem of a book offers a fine sampling of the transcendental idealism and reliance on the individual... (read more) Your price: $3.50 New - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson Staff Pick Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry / by Czeslaw (edt) 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Bringing It To the Table: on Farming and Food (09 Edition) by Wendell Berry Staff Pick One of the most prolific and celebrated authors on the subjects of sustainable agriculture and mindful eating, Wendell Berry has influenced the likes of Wes Jackson, Barbara Kingsolver, Gene Logsdon, Barry Lopez, and Michael Pollan, to name a few. Fans... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Up in the Old Hotel: and Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell Staff Pick Joseph Mitchell wrote these stories and more for the New Yorker. Technically, they are nonfiction pieces — Mitchell's books are shelved mostly in literature and journalism. But his prose reads like some of the finest fiction the magazine's published.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell Staff Pick The best collection of wedding-related poetry I found. The editors also include an useful primer on wedding service scripts (in case you're writing your own), presenting standard examples from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Zen traditions.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer Staff Pick 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine with DVD-ROMs by New Yorker Staff Pick The title says it all. This superb — nay, essential — set of eight DVD-ROMs includes everything ever printed in every issue of the New Yorker, right down to the vintage advertisements. The content is searchable in every way possible from your... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Collection of Essays (Harvest Book) by George Orwell Staff Pick Sharing the same uncompromising language as his fiction, Orwell's essays explore everything from shooting an elephant to Henry Miller, and from boyhood schooling to the Spanish Civil War. Yet, despite the diversity of subjects, each essay looks to do the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book) by Kenneth Rexroth Staff Pick In this groundbreaking work, Kenneth Rexroth gives us some of the most beautiful poems ever translated from the ancient Chinese. They read strikingly well, both as translations and as English-language poems.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation by Fanny Howe Staff Pick Contemporary American poet Fanny Howe has written over 25 books of poetry and prose. Her spare style of poetry is lauded for its bold experimentalism and the incisive intellect behind it. The Winter Sun, her third book of essays, is a deeply personal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain by Words Without Borders Staff Pick This valuable collection of stories, memoir, poems, images, and reportage from former Soviet Bloc countries gives an intimate glimpse of how life has changed — for better and for worse — since 1989. The texts are visually anchored with images of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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