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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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders Staff Pick Braindead Megaphone is a wonderful collection of essays, containing everything from an exploration of the insane cultural edifice that is modern-day Dubai to a condemnation of the infuriating state of contemporary media (and the consequently dumbed-down... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 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) Your price: $14.99 New - 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Luminous Things : an International Anthology of Poetry (96 Edition) by Czeslaw (ed.) 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.95 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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food 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: $6.50 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker by David Remnick Staff Pick This makes the perfect gift for those who love a literary hit with their humor. A wonderful wide-ranging selection to read aloud with others or simply snicker at in the privacy of one's own personal reading space.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 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: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Alphabet by Inger Christensen Staff Pick My engagement with Danish poet Inger Christensen's work was pretty limited prior to her death last year — I liked the few poems I'd read and had the recurrent recognition that I'd do well to read more. Then I encountered her 1981 work Alphabet... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir) by Kevin Sampsell Staff Pick There are a million stories in the naked city. Portland Noir collects 16 of them. The contributor list is amazing: Karen Karbo, Monica Drake, Floyd Skloot, and more. Editor Kevin Sampsell does a great job of setting the stage for the wealth of narrative... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens Staff Pick Inscrutable poet-of-ideas Wallace Stevens is a deepening favorite of mine. This, despite the fact that I don't always understand his poems. This, despite the fact that even when I think I might understand, the precision of a world glimpsed in a "jar from... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa Staff Pick Everyone loves the writing of Samuel Beckett (they claim to anyway), but few people have read Fernando Pessoa (let alone heard of him). Pessoa was a Portuguese poet who lived in the early part of the 20th century and can be credited for helping develop... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) by Gerard Manley Hopkins Staff Pick The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, grand purveyor of sprung rhythm (a complex poetic rhythm based on the patterns of speech natural to Welsh and Old English), are poems that beg to be read aloud. Strange diction, fervent sound-play, and an inimitable... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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