Literary Collections
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What the House Knows
$21.00 Add to cartWhat the House Knows is an anthology of 116 poems by 116 poets, poets such as Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Billy Collins, Tracy K. Smith, Jan Beatty, and George Bilgere. Each poem features a house. Throu
- Author: Lockward, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1947896784
- Language: English
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Letters from Congo
$11.00 Add to cartLETTERS FROM CONGO, a powerful collection by Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros Georges, invites readers to journey every air mile traveled by a family trying to survive the perpetual uncertainty o
- Author: Georges, Danielle Legros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1941604056
- Language: English
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Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming
$30.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.
Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James B
- Author: Fleming, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 63299186
- Language: English
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
$18.99 Add to cartDuring childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with p
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105046
- Language: English
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I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
$26.99 Add to cartA debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman–an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the po
- Author: Kreizman, Maris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063305828
- Language: English
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I’ve Tried Being Nice: Essays
$28.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary- Author: Leary, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1982120347
- Language: English
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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime Ne… [more below]
- Author: Trillin, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593596463
- Language: English
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Run the Song: Writing about Running about Listening
$18.00 Add to cartA revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers
Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bron- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453282
- Language: English
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Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth
$19.95 Add to cartWater Bodies consider what becomes endangered when we lose sight of the power of water.
The human experience has always been shaped by water, by its absence and its abundance. Now, as the climate cris- Author: Paskus, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890920072
- Language: English
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Is This My Final Form?
$20.00 Add to cartA poet renowned for her “wit and complexity” (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date
Aren’t we all shape-- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Gerstler, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138480
- Language: English
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I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating collection of questions and answers–about courtship, marriage, love, and sex–from a seventeenth-century periodical
The Athenian Mercury–a one-page, two-sided periodical published in- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0691253994
- Language: English
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That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today
A cri- Author: Young, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593317114
- Language: English
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McSweeney’s Issue 77 (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern)
$22.00 Add to cartMcSweeney’s three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 77th issue, a lovely back-to-basics paperback introducing our new editor: Rita Bullwinkel.
Ever changing, each issue of- Series: McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1952119979
- Language: English
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The Buddhist Years
$35.00 Add to cartA brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinking
From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always consid
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1644284618
- Language: English
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Worthy of the Event: An Essay
$19.95 Add to cartA trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence
Move over Michel de Montaigne, there’s a new girl in town
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- Author: Blaxell, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1964322995
- Language: English
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Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Carpenter, Nora Shalaway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1961853078
- Language: English
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Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Fuhrman, Cmarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456524
- Language: English
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This Place the Gods Touched Earth
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Montana Arts Council
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1940527058
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.00 Add to cartA landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore’s translation o- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022660442X
- Language: English
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
$26.00 Add to cartYiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. “There is no go- Author: Li, Yiyun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 374617317
- Language: English
