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Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
Staff Pick
The great thing about Evelyn Waugh is that the humor of his novels transcends their era. You don't have to know anything about English society of the 1920s to be entertained by Vile Bodies because Waugh's style relies on fundamentally silly characters... (read more)

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Stories (Vintage Classics)
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Staff Pick
Katherine Mansfield lived a tragic life, dying young of tuberculosis. However, in her short life, she proved herself a master of the short story, likened by many to a 20th century Chekhov. She's also the only writer who Virginia Woolf ever admitted being... (read more)

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by Dennis Cooper
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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
by Edmund White
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Edmund White is one of American literature's best kept secrets, and Hotel de Dream is his finest novel in nearly a decade. Give this one a chance; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you've never read any of White's novels, this is a fantastic... (read more)

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Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Bret Easton Ellis
Staff Pick
Everything that Bret Easton Ellis accomplished with American Psycho has been refined and redesigned in his epic Glamorama. Graphic sex, designer drugs, rock 'n' roll allusions, splatterpunk violence, and characters as deep as 8"x10" glossies —... (read more)

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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time)
by Anthony Powell
Staff Pick
I started Anthony Powell's 12-novel cycle, A Dance to the Music of Time, with hopes of finishing it within a year. Four months later, I was done. While it can be a bit dry, Powell's writing is never dull. His descriptions put the reader directly in the... (read more)

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Just an Ordinary Day
by Shirley Jackson
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Aside from her infamous story "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson's genius with the short story form is often overlooked. The stories in Just an Ordinary Day represent the great diversity of her work, from her incredibly dry, sarcastic humor to her... (read more)

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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
by Edmund White
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