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  • Time is a Toy

    The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt

    Edited by John Gallaher, Laura Boss ...
    Michael Benedikt (1935–2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, as well as James Tate and Russell Edson, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential The Prose Poem (1976) and The Poetry of Surrealism (1974). This collection brings together for the first time work from all five of those long out-of-print ... Read more

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  • Future Visions on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics 1

    A Liber Amicorum in Memory of Swamy Laxminarayan

    Edited by Lodewijk Bos, Denis Carroll, Luis Kun, Andrew Marsh, Laura M. Roa ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Swamy Laxminarayan was an outstanding researcher active in many diverse fields of science and technology. This liber amicorum in memory of Swamy Laxminarayan collects Medical and Biological Engineering and Informatics contributions to the Safety and Security of Individuals and Society. The authors are renowned scientists and the aim of their writing is to recall the enormous personal and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Art of Memoir

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    Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed ... Read more

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  • The Hero of This Book

    A Novel

    by Elizabeth McCracken ...
    Named a Top Ten Best Book of the Year by Time and PeopleNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * New Yorker * Chicago Public Library * NPR * Oprah Daily * Philadelphia EnquirerA taut, groundbreaking, and highly acclaimed novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother—a... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Andrew's Brain

    A Novel

    by E.L. Doctorow ...
    This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE TELEGRAPHSpeaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, ... Read more

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  • Disquiet, Please!

    More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much more**,** it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fraud

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    by David Rakoff ...
    From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Best American Essays 2020

    Edited by André Aciman ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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  • Fierce Pajamas

    An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S. Kaufman, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Peter De Vries ... Read more

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  • The Professor of Desire

    A Novel

    by Philip Roth ...
    “Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time.” —Village Voice“A thoughtful … elegant novel…. A fine display of literary skills.” —New York Times Book ReviewPhilip Roth's profound and often hilarious novel—the central book in Roth’s Kepesh trilogy—about where we seek pleasure and why we flee it.As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among s... ... Read more

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  • Forty Stories

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    Witty, surreal, and endlessly inventive, Forty Stories is Barthelme at his finest—dismantling convention, bending language, and turning fiction into pure mischief.Donald Barthelme is a master of the unexpected, a writer who bends fiction into strange and exhilarating shapes. In Forty Stories, the companion to Sixty Stories, he delivers a dazzling collection of tales—each one a collision of wit, ... Read more

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  • The Roominghouse Madrigals

    Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly.Drawn from his raw, prolific period between 1946 and 1966, this is the early work of a cult classic author ... Read more

    $14.99 USD