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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in TH…
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The Trees Witness Everything
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker
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*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Public Library
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Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.
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Modern Poetry: Poems
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude―has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its …
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Cathedral
Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.
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Franny and Zooey
‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or somethi…
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Reasons to Live
It is always "earthquake weather" in Amy Hempel's California, a landscape where everything can change without warning. Traditional resources—home, parents, lovers, friends, even willpower—are not depe…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short-story writers in American literature—a haunting me… -
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West…
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