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The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders
Riverhead Trade
Riverhead Trade
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"-not to mention an official Genius-a trade paperback original and his first nonfiction collection ever. George Saunders's first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature,...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Best American Nonrequired Reading)
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
"This great volume highlights the very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and more" (OK!). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, it is thoroughly "entertaining and...
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
Editors of New York Magazine
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Random House Trade Paperbacks
The magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence,...
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
John Gardner
Vintage
Vintage
"John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook,...
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Borderlands/La Frontera, The New Mestiza: Third Edition
Gloria Anzalda
Aunt Lute Books
Aunt Lute Books
Rooted in Gloria Anzalda's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of...
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In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki
Leete'S Island Books
Leete'S Island Books
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and...
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