Letters to Emma Bowlcut

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  Actual Air

  David Berman is a young Virginian poet with a sly,
  intense regard for the past. He comes on like a prankster, restocking the imperial orations of Wallace Stevens and the byzantine monologues of John…

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  Aliens & Anorexia

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  No One Belongs Here More Than You

  The creator and star of Me and You and Everyone We Know presents a collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnera…

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  Bluets

  Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
  
  A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as ref…

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  The Argonauts

  An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.
  
  Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce,…

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  Crush

  Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles …

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  The Hearing Trumpet

  Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who made her home in Mexico City, was also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm, and The Hearing Trumpet is…

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  The First Bad Man

  From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny--so Miranda July--r…

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  Distant Star

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  Near to the Wild Heart

  Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday. The novel, written in a stream-of-consciousness style rem…

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  This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in TH…

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  Paradise Rot

  A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery
  
  Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house wi…

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  Train Dreams

  Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twenti…

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  Rejection

  An electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.
  
  Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection i…

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  Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

  After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system. What effects has this “capitalist realism” had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it possibl…

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  Play It As It Lays

  A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and hau…

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  Jane: A Murder

  Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story …

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  The Price of Salt

  Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Mor…

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  Deep Cuts

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  The White Album

  First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the B…

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