American - 21st century
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
$16.95 Add to cartW. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.
- Author: Fleischmann, T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895472
- Language: English
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The Faraway World: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023
From the a- Author: Engel, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1982159537
- Language: English
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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
$29.00 Add to cartFrom a “born storyteller” (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.
When Brian Doyle passed away at- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0316492892
- Language: English
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Smile: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cart* A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post‘s Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence *
From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize f- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1982150955
- Language: English
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Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences
$20.00 Read more“You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, ‘What’d you do with your life?’ And me being lik… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Matthew J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: January 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389352
- Language: English
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Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
$18.00 Add to cartNamed for the anarchist utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction classic The Dispossessed, Dispatches from Anarres embodies the anarchic spirit of Le Guin’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, while p… [more below]
- Author: DeFreitas, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1942436483
- Language: English
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Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention
$26.00 Add to cartPeggy Rowe is at it again–this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career.
Peggy Rowe has been writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write–even through t- Author: Rowe, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1637630999
- Language: English
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Land of Big Numbers: Stories
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama – NPR – The Washington Post – The Philadelphia Inquirer – Esquire – Kirkus Reviews – Chicago Public Library – Electric Literature
Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book
- Author: Chen, Te-Ping
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0358272556
- Language: English
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From Scarsdale: A Childhood
$16.95 Add to cartFrom Scarsdale is an evocative and lyrical memoir of a haunted childhood in Scarsdale, New
York.With a cancer diagnosis in his early forties, the author is compelled to revisit and resolve the mystery
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1628975482
- Language: English
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
$18.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Mag… [more below]
- Author: Keegan, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1476753911
- Language: English
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Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
$17.99 Add to cart“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre…It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times
A gripping colle
“One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post- Author: Ballingrud, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 1534449930
- Language: English
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Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
$26.00 Read moreFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her life
Five months pregnant and s- Author: Novak, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220765
- Language: English
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How to Communicate: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartFormally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms i
- Author: Clark, John Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 6, 2022
- ISBN10: 132403534X
- Language: English
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My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera
$30.00 Read morePaper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates–we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart’s memoiristic expl
- Author: Kephart, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923949
- Language: English
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a “dazzling” (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) m
- Author: Doerr, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 10, 2008
- ISBN10: 141657316X
- Language: English
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Best Debut Short Stories 2023: The Pen America Dau Prize
$16.95 Read moreThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature
Selected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising- Series: Pen America
- Author: Rogers, Sarah Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222016
- Language: English
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The Wolfe at the Door
$29.99 Read moreAn all new collection from an American literary icon
The circus comes to town… and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens- Author: Wolfe, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 125084620X
- Language: English
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Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
$17.00 Add to cart“This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along fo
- Author: Purnell, Brontez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0374612692
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
$28.00 Add to cartThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called “an American virtuoso of the short story fo- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0312655398
- Language: English
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The Consequences: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Shimmering stories set in
Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize
Finalist for the 2023 Balcones Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Story Prize- Author: Mu?oz, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452065
- Language: English
