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Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell Synopsis In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell by Suzanne Marrs Publisher Comments Eavesdrop on one of the most celebrated literary friendships in American letters "An epistolary feast for literary fans [and] a confidence booster for aspiring writers everywhere. A-" —Entertainment Weekly "If friendship is an art, this volume... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Complete Poems (Vintage) by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future Is Japanese by Nick (edt) Mamatas Publisher Comments A web browser that threatens to conquer the world. The longest, loneliest railroad on Earth. A North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in breaking up “virtual” marriages. And yes... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Folding Star and Other Poems (Lannan Translation Selections) by Jacek Gutorow Publisher Comments "We are fortunate to now have them in English so that we who don't read Polish can now read these, and enjoy their insight and wry wit."––Mary Jo Bang In his triumphant collection The Folding Star and Other Poems, poet of the imagination Jacek... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli Publisher Comments Davie Street Translations is a witty, lively documentary-style series of poems about North American gay male culture. With versified musical machismo after the San Francisco Renaissance poets, riffing to the tune of mononymous deities Beyoncé,... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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IO #71: Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death by Victoria (edt) Zackheim Publisher Comments There’s nothing funny about dying … or is there? Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and 22 more share hilarious and moving stories of confronting death. Exit Laughing makes death more approachable as it reveals the funny side of &ldquo... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Exit Laughing by Victoria Zackheim Publisher Comments Exit Laughing is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories, written by some of our country's finest authors, on the subject of death and humor. It's a reminder that all of us approach death in very different ways. Whether we face our death... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Grantland Issue 2 by Bill (edt) Simmons Synopsis Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Grantland, the popular website founded and edited by Bill Simmons. It features the best long-form sports and culture writing from the site as well as new print exclusives, delivered in a... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930 by Meredith Martin Publisher Comments "This innovative book changes the prosodic landscape of modernism and Victorianism--it shows that rather than constituting a dramatic break with outworn Victorian metrics, modernist experiment is continuous with Victorian experiment. From Hopkins to Owen,... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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This Side of Time by Ko Un Publisher Comments "Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms—Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Jindrich Heisler: Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953 by Jindrich Toman Publisher Comments Czech poet and photographer Jindřich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Philadelphia Metals by Wendy Ruthroff Publisher Comments An award-winning book of poetry in England, the creative, witty, and dear story of the Metal family, Noemi and Orwen and little Li, told with playful British humor. Now available in its first US edition (2012).... (read more) Your price: $12.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories) by Laura (com) Furman Publisher Comments The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Clare and Francis by Marcus Bussey Publisher Comments There is an irresistible calling in us that we often mistake for human love. Yet in the heart of a mystic-and I believe we are all mystics in waiting-there is an intense longing for union with the beloved. And this longing calls through our bodies-deep... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $6.73 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Eyes Only: The Top Secret Correspondence Between Marshall and Eisenhower by Andrew Rawson Publisher Comments The war for Europe through the previously unpublished correspondence of Eisenhower and his Chief of Staff, offering new insight into a key partnership of the U.S. military Between December 1943 and November 1945, General George C. Marshall,... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it a masterpiece of American... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Essential Poets #8: The Essential Robert Gibbs by Robert Gibbs Publisher Comments The precision, originality, and playfulness of Robert Gibbs' poems have captivated readers for over half a century. Mixing the cerebral and the heartfelt, Gibbs' poems investigate and celebrate family, history, and nature with decisive imagery, idiomatic... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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