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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. At less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety... (read more)

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Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (00 Edition)
Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (00 Edition)
by Mark Strand
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Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, The... (read more)

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The Best American Short Stories 2012
The Best American Short Stories 2012
by Tom Perrotta
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The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more)

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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project
by Dave Isay
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“Heartfelt and ever-endearing – equal parts information and inspiration. This is a book to keep by your bedside and return to often.” -- Amy Dickinson, nationally syndicated advice columnist "Ask Amy" After a chance encounter... (read more)

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Short Takes : Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction (05 Edition)
Short Takes : Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction (05 Edition)
by Judith Kitchen
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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.... (read more)

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Great Short Stories by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions)
Great Short Stories by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Candace Ward
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Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.... (read more)

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The Portable Sixties Reader
The Portable Sixties Reader
by Ann Charters
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From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of... (read more)

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The Top 500 Poems
The Top 500 Poems
by William Harmon
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Here, for the first time, is our generations' definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on... (read more)

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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
by Michael Chabon
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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)

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
by J. D. McClatchy
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From Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and reshaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender,... (read more)

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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
by Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha
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My favorite collection of short fiction to come along in some time. Many of the stories I've gone back to again and again over the years, and plenty more I've discovered here for the first time. The book has been on my end table for a month now, and it... (read more)

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Art of Personal Essay : an Anthology From the Classical To the Present (94 Edition)
Art of Personal Essay : an Anthology From the Classical To the Present (94 Edition)
by Phillip (ed.) Lopate
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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)

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New European Poets
New European Poets
by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer
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New European Poets is a collection whose publication is long overdue. Where else can you read contemporary poetry from Malta, Hungary, Iceland, and Belarus, not to mention Ireland, Italy, and Poland, all between the same two covers? The editors have done... (read more)

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Good Poems
Good Poems
by Garrison Keillor
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Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... (read more)

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The Portable Beat Reader
The Portable Beat Reader
by Ann Charters
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... (read more)

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Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers (08 Edition)
Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers (08 Edition)
by Vendela Vida
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This collection of conversations between writers and their mentors includes Zadie Smith with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer with Edward P. Jones; and Dave... (read more)

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This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers
by Elizabeth Merrick
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New short stories from: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aimee Bender, Judy Budnitz, Jennifer S. Davis, Jennifer Egan, Carolyn Ferrell, Mary Gordon, Cristina Henriquez, Samantha Hunt, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Dika Lam, Caitlin Macy, Francine Prose, Holiday Reinhorn,... (read more)

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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
by Dave Eggers and Suzanne Kleid and John Warner and Lee Epstein and Kevin Shay
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The fine people of "McSweeney's" have put together a preposterously funny collection that offers a wealth of useful information--a consistently hilarious selection of brainy, wild humor from one of America's most popular literary magazines.... (read more)

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The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
by Donald Merria Allen
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With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in... (read more)

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Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels (Penguin Classics)
Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels (Penguin Classics)
by J Randolph Cox
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A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era Dime novels ?as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz?were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early... (read more)

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