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The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats
Allen Ginsberg - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouacs seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching... |
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The Complete Stories
Evelyn Waugh - Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Evelyn Waughs short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waughs novel A Handful of Dust... |
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Fairest: A Memoir
Meredith Talusan - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and genderFairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun... |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International)
James Baldwin - Vintage
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boys discovery of the terms of his identity - told "with vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story" (The New York Times) .Baldwins rendering of his protagonists spiritual,... |
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction"[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange." -- Roxane Gay"In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire.... |
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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Saeed Jones - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power."People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people... |
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman... |
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Format: Book
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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on
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Memorial: A Novel
Bryan Washington - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"This book, in what feels like a new vision for the 21st century novel, made me happy." - Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"This book made me think about the nature of love, and family, and anger, and grief, and love again." - Jasmine Guillory,... |
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Moonglow: A Novel
Michael Chabon - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWall Street Journal's Best Novel of the YearA New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year * A Slate Best Book of the Year * A Christian Monitor... |
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Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
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Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordi |
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One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour... |
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and the basis for director David Lean's Academy Award-nominated film, A Passage to India turns on a tragic clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering... |
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Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories
Patricia Highsmith - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New Yorker The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short... |
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A Single Man: A Novel
Christopher Isherwood - Picador Modern Classics
Format: Hardcover
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Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude... |
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Something to Talk About
Meryl Wilsner - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance.Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called... |
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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
Sappho. - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving... |
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Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean VuongHow else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's... |
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