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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella
by George Saunders
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by John Steinbeck
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by David Foster Wallace
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by Ernest Hemingway
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The Collected Poems (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath
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The dark and tragic tones of American poet Sylvia Plath cannot be denied — her persona and infamous death ensure this — but her poems are also by turns playful and deeply haunting, and this too must be admitted. A stunning collection.... (read more)

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East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by John Steinbeck
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel
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I read The Collected Stories in order, over the course of a single week. My long overdue introduction to Amy Hempel — it was a very good week, indeed. By the time I finished I'd penciled five names onto the back of the last page: friends who'll soon be... (read more)

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Civilwarland in Bad Decline
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East of Eden: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)
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Fight
by Norman Mailer
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The Book of Beginnings and Endings
by Jenny Boully
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The Book of Beginnings and Endings begins with the perfect visual complement on its cover: an installation by Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers. An egg is a literal, biological, and metaphorical beginning. But an eggshell is an ending; emptied of its... (read more)

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