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Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand Staff Pick Whether you call it political action, slogan, or aphorism, guerrilla poetry — the kind you hold in your hand (pamphlet or broadside) or see on the street — is probably more widely read and thought about than Walt Whitman. Imagine if Republican... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 (Mark Twain Papers) by Mark Twain Staff Pick At last, the wait is over! Exactly 100 years after his death, Mark Twain's autobiography is finally available. In this first of three volumes, the great Samuel Clemens tells his most epic tale of all: the frank and fascinating story of his remarkable... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain Staff Pick If the only Twain you've ever read is Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, or Connecticut Yankee, this collection shall prove much more than surprising (either pleasantly or appallingly, depending on your sensibilities). Published posthumously despite the objections... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 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: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium; a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature) by Anne Carson Staff Pick Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and lyrical prose, Eros the Bittersweet... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) by Francine Prose Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes Staff Pick French literary theorist Roland Barthes' philosophical treatise on love is a study not only of Eros, but also of desire, jealousy, and the linguistics of love. Presented in fragments written from the perspective of a fictionalized unrequited lover, this... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Alice behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Simon Winchester makes everything within his intense gaze come amazingly alive. Here, he turns his attention to Charles Dodgson (better knows as Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame). Winchester looks at the critical period in Dodgson's life in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Taz the Temporary Autonomous Zone 2ND Edition by Hakim Bey Staff Pick "Since the WTO, anarchism is once again a household word. This book introduced a whole new generation to the enticements of the anarchist lifestyle when it was released in the early 90's. Still a password for acceptance in many circles, it is an... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Staff Pick Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill Staff Pick Struck by the sudden realization that she possesses quite a few books she's never read, author Susan Hill decides to take a year off buying books so that she can read, and reread, the many treasures in her possession. Howards End Is on the Landing is the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia Staff Pick Camille Paglia is a top-notch analyst, and she'll introduce you to poems, poets, and ideas for how to see the written word in new and exciting ways.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound Staff Pick Welcome to Ezuversity. No tuition and just this one textbook. "ABC or gradus ad Parnassum, for those who like to learn."... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields Staff Pick In Reality Hunger, Shields draws from classic and contemporary sources — artists, writers, philosophers, and more — to present a collage of ideas that is erudite and provocative. It's a book of intentional plagiarism that casts new light on ideas of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom Staff Pick We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Library Bound
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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold by Marilyn Herbert Staff Pick By the time The Lovely Bones landed on bookstore shelves it had become the most highly anticipated book of the season. Then came the astonishingly enthusiastic critical response. Within two months, a million copies were in print. Still, readers... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields and Bradford Morrow Staff Pick You are going to die. If that incontrovertible fact bums you out, you may want to read The Inevitable, which contains 20 essays about death that are alternately funny, sad, enlightening, and fascinating. The book doesn't pretend to have the the answers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt and David Mikics Staff Pick You can read this book for its remarkable selection from 450 years of English-language sonnets, or delve into the accompanying essays through which Burt and Mikics shed light on why — and how — the sonnet has remained one of the longest-lived verse... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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