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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
by Anne Carson
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by George Saunders
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by David Foster Wallace
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Book of Luminous Things : an International Anthology of Poetry (96 Edition)
by Czeslaw (ed.) Milosz
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by Seamus Heaney
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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)

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Alphabet
by Inger Christensen
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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
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by Joseph Mitchell
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