American - 21st century
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300 Arguments
$16.00 Add to cart“Jam-packed with insights you’ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin….A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.”–Celeste Ng, author of Littl
- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977642
- Language: English
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Blinking with Fists: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe hit poetry collection from the creative force behind The Smashing Pumpkins
Having risen to fame during the grunge era in the early nineties, Billy Corgan is among the most respected figures of th- Author: Corgan, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0571211704
- Language: English
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Model Citizen
$18.00 Add to cartThe intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr–writer, father, alcoholic, addict.
Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of m- Author: Mohr, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829488
- Language: English
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Breaking Into the Backcountry
$16.95 Add to cartWriting with an elegant simplicity and resilient reverence, Edwards proves to be an astute and passionate observer of both human and Mother Nature.–Carol Haggas, Booklist Online
In 2001 Steve Edwards
- Author: Edwards, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803226535
- Language: English
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
$34.99 Add to cartA haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
- Author: Vuong, Ocean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: June 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1556595859
- Language: English
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
$35.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. – A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe–and… [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club 2.0
- Author: Strayed, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0307592731
- Language: English
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
$15.99 Add to cart“This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending,” writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to… [more below]
- Author: McCracken, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0316027669
- Language: English
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Misssettl
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry
Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism i
- Author: Hilliard, Kamden Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621408
- Language: English
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It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility
$19.99 Add to cartThese stories are about identity, relationships, and community. They’re about hope, acceptance, affirmation, and joy. And most of all, in a time when uncertainty feels inescapable and overwhelming, th
- Author: Oliveira, Isabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1736618202
- Language: English
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Book of My Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man’s life is about America- Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250043549
- Language: English
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Bad Kansas: Stories
$26.95 Add to cartThe eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country’s most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous colle
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #89
- Author: Mandelbaum, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351288
- Language: English
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Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life
$14.95 Add to cartWhen his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn’t quite two. His mother packed up his father’s belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The “man in a box” remained a my… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803238398
- Language: English
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For a Little While
$24.99 Add to cartLong considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have t… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0316381144
- Language: English
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Surrender
$18.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Brian O’Hare’s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday n
- Series: Veterans Writing Award
- Author: O’Hare, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611501
- Language: English
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Growing Things and Other Stories
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award
“One of the best collections of the 21st century.” — Stephen King
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from t
- Author: Tremblay, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062906682
- Language: English
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Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories
$19.95 Read moreThis collection of essays and stories by Lambda Award-winning novelist and UCLA scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba focuses on issues of identity, art and language.
- Author: De Alba, Alicia Gaspar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1558859578
- Language: English
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Wild Milk
$16.95 Add to cartA genre-expanding collection of stories that Publishers Weekly calls “perplexingly captivating” and “astonishing.”
Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme … [more below]- Author: Mark, Sabrina Orah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0997366680
- Language: English
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Socialist Realism
$18.00 Add to cartMoving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Low, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895510
- Language: English
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2
$17.95 Add to cartRichard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short-story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta Books published in 1992.
It became the definitive
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 786
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1847080405
- Language: English
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Boundless Deep, and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartNamed a Public Picks 2023 by Public Books
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite ev- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: del Raye, Gen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496237455
- Language: English
