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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when publis…
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