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The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass  Publisher Comments A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the...
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories
by David Sedaris 
Publisher Comments From the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim comes a collection of the short stories David Sedaris loves most. Containing the work of both contemporary and classic writers, Children Playing Before a...
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Burned Children of America
by Zadie Smith Synopsis This volume brings together the most promising young American authors, with a penchant for writing about such slippery subjects as snakes, letter-writing dogs, chicken livers and indoor shopping malls....
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project
by Dave Isay Publisher Comments Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones. In its two permanent public...
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
by John Updike
Publisher Comments 'Since the series\' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our...
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Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999
by Lisa (edt) Grunwald Publisher Comments Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen, write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens...
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A Century of Great Western Stories
by John Jakes Publisher Comments John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning...
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You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe
by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard Publisher Comments Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most....
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The Future Dictionary of America
by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss and the staff of McSweeney's Publisher Comments This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the mix-tape of writing! Twenty-five pieces of fiction, nonfiction, humor, and alternative comics, come together in one literary compilation. Nonrequired Reading presents a refreshing selection from a diverse group of writers and publications...
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Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Best American Nonrequired Reading)
by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and...
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
by Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher Comments "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you...
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments "How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be...
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
by Paul Auster
Publisher Comments The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the...
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Contemporary Fiction 50 Short Stories Since 1970
by Lex Williford and Michael Martone Publisher Comments Selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors....
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
by Matt Groening Publisher Comments The eclectic new volume in the annual series presents the finest literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, TV writing, and alternative comics by Judy Budnitz, George Packer, The Onion...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2002)
by Dave Eggers Review "[T]he most grown-up young adult fiction excerpts ever compiled." --Allegra Muzzillo, Black Book"If only this book were mandatory in schools...
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Here and Somewhere Else (2x2)
by Grace Paley Publisher Comments Here two writers married to each other employ dramatically different narrative styles and voices to write politically. Often seriocomic, Grace Paley's short fiction, including a previously uncollected New Yorkerstory, features characters "talking in...
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Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction
by Delia Poey Publisher Comments With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, this important anthology of contemporary fiction represents the wide range of cultures and experiences that mark the diverse ethnic groups of the Latino community....
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