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Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories by Jerome Stern Publisher Comments Ten years ago, Jerome Stern, director of the writing program at Florida State, initiated the World's Best Short Short Story Contest. Stories were to be about 250 words long; first prize was a check and a crate of oranges. Two to three thousand stories... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike and Katrina Kenison From Powells.com Since its debut volume 85 years ago, publication of The Best American Short Stories has been a regular literary event, providing an annual showcase for America's greatest established writers and consistently discovering and introducing the best... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology by Paul Hoover Publisher Comments Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and the editors of the award-winning iconoclastic magazine McSweeney's comes this collection of never-before-published stories from America's most popular and innovative writers reinventing the genres they love.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Poetry 2010 (Best American Poetry) by Amy Gerstler Publisher Comments Amy Gerstler's commitment to innovative poetry that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Short Stories, Masterpieces by Raymond Carver Publisher Comments This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”-and... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Hint Fiction (11 Edition) by Robert (ed.) Swartwood Publisher Comments The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's possibly apocryphal six... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Short Story by Dana Gioia and R.S. Gwynn Publisher Comments From Chinua Achebe and Sherwood Anderson to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, The Art of the Short Story presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 classic, contemporary and new voices. No other collection of short stories encompasses such a vast and... (read more) List Price $20.40 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing by Kenneth Koch Publisher Comments Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including translations of poems by five European poets.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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From Totems to Hip Hop: Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 by Ishmael Reed Publisher Comments In this broad survey of American poetry since 1900, the editor shows that American literature, from the very beginning, has been as miscegnated as this hemisphere, influenced by a mixture of cultures, nations, and races.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Best American Short Stories) by Salman Rushdie Publisher Comments This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized. With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume by Sarah N Lawall Publisher Comments Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe by Miguel Algarin Publisher Comments Compiled by poets who have been at the center of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, Aloud! showcases the work of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from around America.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best Loved Poems of the American People by Hazel Felleman Publisher Comments More than 1,500,000 copies in print! Over 575 traditional favorites to be read and reread. Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first line, this is a collection that will be treasured.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine with DVD-ROMs by New Yorker Staff Pick The title says it all. This superb — nay, essential — set of eight DVD-ROMs includes everything ever printed in every issue of the New Yorker, right down to the vintage advertisements. The content is searchable in every way possible from your... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories about People Who Know How They Will Die by Ryan North and Matthew Bennardo and David Malki Publisher Comments The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. No dates, no details. Just a slip of paper with a few words spelling out your ultimate fate — at once all-too... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Norton Book of Light Verse by Russell Baker Publisher Comments Bestselling author Russell Baker presents a wonderful collection of poems, limericks, ballads, and lyrics.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (Vintage Originals) by Carolyn Choa Publisher Comments David Su Li-Qun and Carolyn Choa introduce nineteen of China's most enthralling writers-to date largely unknown outside their native land. From Shanghai to Beijing, we meet people whose lives have been transformed by their country's turbulent recent... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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