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The Portable Beat Reader
$24.00 Add to cartBeginning in the late 1940’s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was “beat.” Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the America
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437530
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
$27.43 Add to cartIrreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook–an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race–contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #2
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0520242459
- Language: English
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Uncollected Works: Oscar Acosta
$14.95 Read moreThis milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the e… [more below]
- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1558850996
- Language: English
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The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years
$27.50 Read moreIn 1988, Timothy Fay published the very first issue of the Wapsipinicon Almanac at his Route 3 Press in Anamosa, Iowa. Fay’s goal was to offer a journal somewhat outside of mainstream Iowa journalism…. [more below]
- Series: Bur Oak Book
- Author: Fay, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388879
- Language: English
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Hemingway on Fishing
$30.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
The first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings on America’s great passion–fishing–introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1476716412
- Language: English
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Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction
$19.95 Read moreAt a time when the American publishing industry increasingly perceives fiction lovers as rather delicate creatures–easily offended, allergic to ambiguity, afraid to venture outside their comfort zone
- Author: Schweizer, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988717300
- Language: English
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Add to cartA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels
$19.95 Add to cartDavid Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating” and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallac… [more below]
- Author: Markson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027143
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (Loa #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories
$35.00 Read moreBefore winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his bri… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1598531506
- Language: English
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Voices from the Rust Belt
$16.00 Read more“Timely . . . the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”–Booklist
The ess- Author: Trubek, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250162971
- Language: English
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Dark Soil
$26.00 Add to cartEight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small.
Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Y- Author: Sijun Lou, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1566896878
- Language: English
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Read moreA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing
$20.00 Read moreAs Kurt Vonnegut, Indiana’s most famous writer, once remarked, “Wherever you go, there is always a Hoosier doing something important there.”
A Flame Called Indiana features 65 writers of fiction, nonfi
- Author: Case, Doug Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066808
- Language: English
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
$14.99 Add to cartIn the underground labyrinths of New York City’s subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged yellowish-brown paper rolled tightly into a ca… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1416516328
- Language: English
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In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
$19.95 Add to cart“In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: October 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0826348165
- Language: English
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
$24.99 Add to cartWhere do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers,… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0316182400
- Language: English
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Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNorth American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By settin… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Teuton, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0199944520
- Language: English
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Thinking in Indian
$19.95 Add to cartThese essays, produced and published over thirty years, are prescient in the prophetic tradition yet current. They reflect consistent engagement in Native issues and deliver a profoundly indigenous an… [more below]
- Author: Barreiro, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1555917380
- Language: English
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Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (Loa #174): On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome Traveler / Journal Selections
$45.00 Add to cartThe raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words o… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: September 06 2007
- ISBN10: 1598530127
- Language: English
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Connecticut Characters: Profiles of Rascals and Renegades
$21.95 Add to cartConnecticut Characters is a collection of the most popular profiles and colorful accounts written by long-time columnist Randall Beach. His columns were written over a span of 40 years and are fondly
- Author: Beach, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071815
- Language: English
