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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser  Publisher Comments Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he...
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides 
Publisher Comments "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on...
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
by Phillip Lopate Publisher Comments The first anthology devoted to the literary form known as the personal essay. A compilation of more than 60 selections by such masters as Plutarch, Montaigne, Orwell, Baldwin, Tanizaki, and Woolf, as well as contemporary personal essayists from...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
by M C Howatson Publisher Comments From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, the first updating since Sir Paul Harvey's original...
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (McSweeney's #10)
by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore...
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Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories
by Randall (edt) Jarrell Publisher Comments In this engagingly diverse anthology, critic and poet Randall Jarrell illuminates storytelling as a fundamental human impulse. Redefining the story form in this collection of world classics, he sets ballads, poems, parables, anecdotes, fairy tales, and...
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War with No End
by John Berger Publisher Comments John Berger, Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco and others examine the consequences of the "War on Terror." On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair's "War on Terror". Six years on, where...
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Paris Stories (02 Edition)
by Mavis Gallant Publisher Comments A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade. Michael...
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Short Takes : Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction (05 Edition)
by Judith Kitchen Publisher Comments Seventy-five writers including Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, Jerry Tempest Williams, Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, and Jane Brox reflect on the power of short works to move, persuade, and change readers....
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The Slate Diaries
by Michael Kinsley Synopsis "Slate", one of the first online literary magazines, asks a different person to keep a diary each week. This volume is a collection of the best diaries, with contributions from distinguished writers, entrepreneurs, and artists. Illustrations....
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Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories
by James Thomas Publisher Comments In this follow-up to the first "Flash Fiction" anthology, the editors once again tackle the question, "How short can a story be and truly be a story?" Includes stories from Ron Carlson, Robert Coover, Grace Paley, Paul Theroux, and others....
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The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues
by Wendy Lesser Publisher Comments Bharati Mukherjee describes how her family was driven out of her Bengal hometown by the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, and how the experience made the Bangla language all the more important to them, ultimately leaving its mark on her English-language...
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Flash Fiction : 72 Very Short Stories (92 Edition)
by James (ed.) Thomas Publisher Comments How short can a story be and still truly be a story? This volume of 75 very short fictions, none more than 750 words in length, demonstrates that less can be more. Here are short pieces by masters such as Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, and Tim O'Brien,...
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The Apocalypse Reader
by Justin Taylor Publisher Comments These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it...
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Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (2ND 07 Edition)
by Williford Publisher Comments More than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors were surveyed and asked to select the best literature written since 1970. The short stories included in this anthology represent the best short...
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Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge
by Paul Zakrzewski Publisher Comments <p>Funny, raw, dark, sometimes outrageous, the twenty-five contributors to <i>Lost Tribe</i> explore themes such as conflicted identities, sexual fetishes, religious intolerance, and even the troubled legacy of the Holocaust to create a...
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Getting Even: Revenge Stories
by Mitzi Szereto Publisher Comments "These are deliciously wicked stories. Revenge has never been sweeter . . . or sexier."-MJ Rose If you've ever been betrayed, this is the book for you: Getting Evenis a collection of stories about passion and the sweetness of revenge. If you need a...
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When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood
by John Burningham Publisher Comments In John Burningham' s enchanting compendium of childhood, the well-known and the unknown contribute funny, moving, magical, and sometimes dark childhood memories. Among them are Michael Palin' s account of his first family seaside holiday, Donna Tartt' s...
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One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics)
by Robert Diyanni Publisher Comments " One Hundred Great Essays provides that number of the most exemplary and rewarding selections available in the English language. The anthology combines classic essays of great instructional value together with the most frequently anthologized essays of...
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The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985
by Daniel Halpern Publisher Comments Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers--a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world....
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