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Reading Like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want To Write Them (06 Edition)
by Francine Prose  
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love...
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
by Anne Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and lyrical prose, Eros the...
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Letters From the Earth : Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain (91 Edition)
by Mark Twain
Powells.com Staff Pick If the only Twain you've ever read is Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, or Connecticut Yankee, this collection shall prove much more than surprising (either pleasantly or appallingly, depending on your sensibilities). Published posthumously despite the objections...
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Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
by Louise Gluck
Powells.com Staff Pick These essays share the same deftness, brevity, and perception that make Louise Gluck's poems so remarkable. Ranging from near-memoir to academic writing on past poets to the challenges contemporary poetry face, Proofs and Theories is a wonderful little...
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How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick If Michael Jordan offered a seminar on jumping, you can bet anyone with a pair of Nikes would want to attend. Just so, when Harold Bloom published a book called How to Read and Why it went straight onto the New York Times Bestseller list. As a...
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Orphans: Essays
by Charles D'Ambrosio
Powells.com Staff Pick "Charles D'Ambrosio's essays are excitingly good. They are good and relevant in the way that makes you read sections out loud — to your boyfriend who's trying to read his own book; to three of your friends in a pitch-dark bar, squinting in the light...
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Poetry Slam : the Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (00 Edition)
by Gary Mex (ed.) Glazner
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the really cool elements about this thorough collection of slam celebrities are the many sidebar articles about the logistics and history of the slam. These articles include tips on how to memorize your work, how to do your own spoken word...
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,...
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The Language of Inquiry
by Lyn Hejinian
Powells.com Staff Pick Lyn Hejinian is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary American poetry. Living and writing in the Bay Area for most of her life, she is a professor, translator, poet, etc. Recently she has worked with musician John Zorn on a cross-media...
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The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected...
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As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
by Clive James
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Georgie's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998
by Gary Snyder
Powells.com Staff Pick "Snyder is a poet that, as residents of this continent, we cannot do without. He deserves to be read, to be read carefully, and to be read again and again." Recommended by Chris Faatz, Powells.com (read the entire post on PowellsBooks.blog)...
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Time Out 1000 Books to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides)
by Jonathan Derbyshire
Powells.com Staff Pick Generously illustrated and lovingly compiled, 1000 Books to Change Your Life is a treasure chest of book recommendations. There is no better gift for the book lover in your life. Recommended by Indira, Powells.com...
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Housekeeping vs. the Dirt: Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick Nick Hornby makes lit-crit as entertaining as your favorite novel with this collection of witty and expansive book columns for the Believer magazine. Hornby is open about a book's limitations, and brutally honest about his own, but when he loves a book,...
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Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art
by Peter Davis
Powells.com Staff Pick In the editor's preface, Peter Davis writes: When I was studying for my MFA I was required to read 25 books, of my choosing, per semester. Once, I asked one of my professors to give me some suggestions and she gave me a list of 30 or so writers...
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0 to 9: The Complete Magazine, 1967-1969
by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer
Powells.com Staff Pick Acconci and Mayer published one of the most adventurous outlets for experimental work by writers and visual artists in the late '60s "mimeograph revolution." Printed in small numbers and distributed to bookstores in New York City and to a few...
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On Teaching & Writing Fiction
by Wallace Stegner and Lynn Stegner
Powells.com Staff Pick Wallace Stegner once claimed that "talents are as numerous as salmon eggs, and for the same reason: those that can survive to maturity will be few." Coming from the founder of the Stanford Writing Program and one of the most...
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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture
by Lauraine Leblanc
Powells.com Staff Pick Lauraine Leblanc has done a bang up job; Pretty in Punk is one of the most interesting youth ethnographies to date. Finally, in the wake of many books about girls' self-esteem, here's a publication that describes how some girls resist societal pressures...
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