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Lucky Peach, Issue 8 by Chris (edt) Ying Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Occasional Desire: Essays by David Lazar Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon Synopsis 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.95 New - Hardcover
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What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death (Iowa and the Midwest Experience) by Douglas Bauer Synopsis 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) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Letters of C. Vann Woodward by C. Vann Woodward Publisher Comments 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) List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 New - Hardcover
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A Person of Letters in the Contemporary World by Richard Kostelanetz Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sister Mother Husband Dog, Etc. by Delia Ephron Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Go Giants by Nick Laird Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World War One Short Stories (Thrift Edition Thrift Edition) by Bob (edt) Blaisdell Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $4.00 New - Trade Paper
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by Daniel Orowole Fagunwa Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Story about the Story Vol. II by J C Hallman Synopsis 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones (Manifest West) by Teresa Milbrodt Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rita Dove Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths by Kate Bernheimer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems (List) by Alden Nowlan Synopsis 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) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The O. Henry Prize Stories (Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories) by Laura (com) Furman Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Poetry 2013 by David Lehman Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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The 20th Century in Poetry by Michael Hulse Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense by Sarah Weinman Publisher Comments 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 charactersand their creatorsbetter than Sarah Weinman. One... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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