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Lucky Peach, Issue 8
Lucky Peach, Issue 8
by Chris (edt) Ying
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Lucky Peach #8 is the Gender issue. Weve split the magazine into parts FOR WOMEN and FOR MEN; they meet in the middle with SEX. In the ladies section, Fuchsia Dunlop cooks stag penises; Alice Waters discusses being a woman in the kitchen; Amelia Gray... (read more)

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Occasional Desire: Essays
Occasional Desire: Essays
by David Lazar
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In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher.... (read more)

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
by Kiese Laymon
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Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and insightful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of his finest essays, touching on subjects... (read more)

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The Waste Land
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
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The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back with its original publisher, includes a new... (read more)

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What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death (Iowa and the Midwest Experience)
What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death (Iowa and the Midwest Experience)
by Douglas Bauer
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What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents’ lives, the... (read more)

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The Letters of C. Vann Woodward
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward
by C. Vann Woodward
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C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days at... (read more)

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A Person of Letters in the Contemporary World
A Person of Letters in the Contemporary World
by Richard Kostelanetz
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Says the Author - "I have been writing literary essays for nearly fifty years now. Since most of them appeared in modestly circulated periodicals, it becomes necessary for me to collect the most valuable of them into books. Earlier collections have been... (read more)

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Sister Mother Husband Dog, Etc.
Sister Mother Husband Dog, Etc.
by Delia Ephron
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Hollywood screenwriter and bestselling author Delia Ephron returns with a memorable collection of personal and poignant stories and essays, anchored by a remembrance of losing her older sister, Nora Ephron.... (read more)

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Go Giants
Go Giants
by Nick Laird
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Go Giants, Nick Laird’s stunning third volume of poetry, is full of “epic ambition.” In a collection that’s “easily his most accomplished to date . . . [Laird] gives everything of himself in a poetry as expansive and thought-... (read more)

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World War One Short Stories (Thrift Edition Thrift Edition)
World War One Short Stories (Thrift Edition Thrift Edition)
by Bob (edt) Blaisdell
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This original anthology features tales written mostly by former soldiers and others with firsthand experience of World War I's devastation. Contents include "Introduction to the Trenches" by Richard Aldington, "The Blind Ones," by Isaak Babel... (read more)

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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga
by Daniel Orowole Fagunwa
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"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"—Wole Soyinka, translator and... (read more)

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The Story about the Story Vol. II
The Story about the Story Vol. II
by J C Hallman
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In the second volume of The Story about the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so many against the effects of good books. Writers have long approached writing... (read more)

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Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones (Manifest West)
Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones (Manifest West)
by Teresa Milbrodt
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Like any legendary figure, the cowboy is part myth and part reality, memorialized by history and Hollywood, envied by those who spend days at desks and dream of trading swivel chairs for saddles. The writings in this anthology serve as testament to the... (read more)

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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
by Rita Dove
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In time for the holiday season, a beautiful paperback edition of Penguins landmark poetry anthology Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the... (read more)

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xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths
by Kate Bernheimer
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Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind... (read more)

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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems (List)
Alden Nowlan Selected Poems (List)
by Alden Nowlan
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This volume collects the best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. One of Canada's most influential poets, he left a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with... (read more)

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The O. Henry Prize Stories (Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories)
The O. Henry Prize Stories (Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories)
by Laura (com) Furman
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar... (read more)

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The Best American Poetry 2013
The Best American Poetry 2013
by David Lehman
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Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: "an essential purchase" (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm... (read more)

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The 20th Century in Poetry
The 20th Century in Poetry
by Michael Hulse
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This impressive anthology presents over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. Covering every major period of our cultural history—supporting their stance that no poet works in isolation from contemporary events—the editors... (read more)

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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
by Sarah Weinman
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Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One... (read more)

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