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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
More Pricks Than Kicks
Samuel Beckett
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
More Pricks Than Kicks
Samuel Beckett
May 2013
15
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The Great Frustration
Seth Fried
April 2013
22
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The Phantom Tollbooth
April 2013
21
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
April 2013
13
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Samuel Beckett, S.E. Gontarski
April 2013
2
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Nog
Rudolph Wurlitzer
March 2013
25
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Proust
Samuel Beckett
March 2013
22
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Cynthia Ozick
March 2013
19
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The Dalkey Archive
Flann O'Brien
March 2013
3
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Cane
Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd
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The Writer on Her Work
Janet Sternburg
March 2013
2
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Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett
February 2013
17
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The Complete Dramatic Works
Samuel Beckett
February 2013
2
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Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman
January 2013
26
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Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Annette Lavers
January 2013
25
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The Conversions
Harry Mathews
January 2013
23
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Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright
January 2013
20
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The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!
Marty Beckerman
January 2013
10
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Rivers and Mountains
John Ashbery
January 2013
7
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The Portable Curmudgeon
Jon Winokur
December 2012
17
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Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris
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Raintree County
Ross Lockridge
November 2012
17
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A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald
October 2012
30
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Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides) (English and French Edition)
Charles Baudelaire, Wallace Fowlie
October 2012
29
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Cobralingus
Jeff Noon
October 2012
27
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Myself and Fellow Asses
Thomas Temple Hoyne
October 2012
21
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Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Ira Silverberg
October 2012
20
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Every Thing on It
Shel Silverstein
October 2012
12
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Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo
October 2012
6
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The Atrocity Exhibition
Ana Barrado, Phoebe Gloeckner, V. Vale, Andrea Juno, J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs
September 2012
28
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Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
September 2012
23
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Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser
September 2012
18
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Anthology of Black Humor
André Breton, Mark Polizzotti
August 2012
31
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I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams
Mark Dery
August 2012
8
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Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
August 2012
5
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Jailbird
Kurt Vonnegut
July 2012
17
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Donald Antrim
July 2012
13
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The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
July 2012
1
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Amateurs
Donald Barthelme
June 2012
29
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Roadside Picnic
Olena Bormashenko, Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Ursula K. Le Guin
June 2012
25
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A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers
June 2012
22
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Sadness
Donald Barthelme
June 2012
18
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The Father Costume
Ben Marcus, Matthew Ritchie
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Shatterday
Harlan Ellison
June 2012
15
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
June 2012
2
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City Life
Donald Barthelme
May 2012
29
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Splendide-Hôtel
Gilbert Sorrentino
May 2012
28
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Outliers: The Story of Success
May 2012
21
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Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
Donald Barthelme
May 2012
18
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Willful Creatures
Aimee Bender
May 2012
15
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Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Etgar Keret
May 2012
12
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Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Riverside Editions)
Walt Whitman, James E. Miller Jr.
May 2012
10
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Collected Stories
Roald Dahl, Jeremy Treglown
May 2012
1
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Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters
Paul Maher, Jr.
April 2012
30
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Ship of Fools
Sebastian Brant, Edwin H. Zeydel (Translator)
April 2012
29
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Endgame
Samuel Beckett
April 2012
15
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Richard Fariña
April 2012
14
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
March 2012
23
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The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation)
March 2012
22
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The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life (Irish Literature Series)
Flann O'Brien, Patrick C. Power, Ralph Steadman
March 2012
21
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Heart of Darkness
March 2012
19
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Impossible Stories
Zoran Živković, Paul Di Filippo, Alice Copple-Tošić
March 2012
15
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Cosmos
Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt
March 2012
13
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Collected Poems (The Penguin Poets)
James Joyce
March 2012
12
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Chamber Music
James Joyce
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Bugf#ck: The Worthless Wit and Wisdom of Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
March 2012
10
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Hidden Camera
Zoran Živković, Alice Copple-Tošić
March 2012
8
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The Eater of Darkness
Robert M. Coates
March 2012
7
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The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.: The Tweets of Steve Martin
Steve Martin
March 2012
6
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Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott
March 2012
4
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The Metamorphoses
Ovid
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
February 2012
28
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Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
February 2012
27
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Nadja
André Breton, Richard Howard
February 2012
19
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1Q84
February 2012
12
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The Paris Review Interviews, II
Harold Bloom, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Philip Gourevitch, The Paris Review, Eudora Welty, John Gardner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Peter Carey, Robert Lowell, William Gaddis, James Thurber, Philip Larkin, Gabriel García Márq
February 2012
7
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais, J.M. Cohen
January 2012
29
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The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus
January 2012
23
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The Paris Review Interviews, I
Joan Didion, Jorge Luis Borges, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Robert Stone, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Robert Gottlieb, Philip Gourevitch, Elizabeth Bishop, The Paris Review, Rebecca West, Richard Price, Billy Wilder, Jack Gilbert, James M
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Steps
Jerzy Kosiński
January 2012
17
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The Architect's Brother
Robert Parkeharrison
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Fool
Christopher Moore
January 2012
14
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One-Way Street and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics)
Walter Benjamin, Amit Chaudhuri, J.A. Underwood
January 2012
12
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What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats
Jack Handey
January 2012
8
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The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh
December 2011
31
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Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time with Irish Music
Ciarán Carson
December 2011
29
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The 50 Funniest American Writers: According to Andy Borowitz
Bernie Mac, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, George Saunders, H.L. Mencken, David Rakoff, Susan Orlean, Terry Southern, Jean Shepherd, O. Henry, Wanda Sykes, Hunter S. Thompson, Nora Ephron, Sinclair Lewis, E.B. White, Henry Beard, Bruce Jay Friedman, Roy Blount Jr., James
December 2011
9
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The Dead Father
Donald Barthelme
November 2011
30
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The Dream Songs
John Berryman
November 2011
19
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Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Donald Barthelme
November 2011
18
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The Age of Wire and String
Ben Marcus
October 2011
16
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The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
Edward Lear, Vivien Noakes
October 2011
13
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
October 2011
9
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Snow White
Donald Barthelme
October 2011
2
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Fire the Bastards!
Jack Green
September 2011
14
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The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
September 2011
5
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy
August 2011
26
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The Sky Changes
Gilbert Sorrentino
August 2011
8
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Murphy
Samuel Beckett
July 2011
31
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The Original of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov
July 2011
28
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The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
Christoph Ransmayr, John E. Woods
July 2011
22
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The Instructions
Adam Levin
July 2011
2
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Night
Elie Wiesel, Robert McAfee Brown, François Mauriac, Stella Rodway
June 2011
30
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Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson
June 2011
27
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The Recognitions
William Gaddis
June 2011
6
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The Bomb
Howard Zinn
June 2011
1
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The Little Prince
May 2011
23
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Chicago: City on the Make
Nelson Algren
May 2011
21
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Candide - Voltaire
May 2011
20
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The Use and Abuse of Literature
Marjorie Garber
May 2011
5
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Evening Edged in Gold
Arno Schmidt
April 2011
23
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The Red Book: Liber Novus
C.G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck
April 2011
16
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How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors
Philip Oltermann, Dan Crowe
April 2011
13
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The Writer's Desk
Jill Krementz
April 2011
9
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Guy Deutscher
April 2011
1
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The Torrents of Spring
Ernest Hemingway
March 2011
30
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Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. VIII, #1, Arno Schmidt
John O'Brien, F. P. Ott
March 2011
26
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The Interrogative Mood
Padgett Powell
March 2011
18
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In The Wake Of The Wake
David Hayman, David Hayman
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Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum: An Analysis
Volker Max Langbehn
March 2011
7
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
March 2011
4
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Room: A Novel
March 2011
1
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The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)
Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Nadine Gordimer
February 2011
27
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Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
Tracy Daugherty
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Best European Fiction 2011
Aleksandar Hemon, Colum McCann
February 2011
18
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The Book Of Dead Philosophers
Simon Critchley
February 2011
14
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell
February 2011
7
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
January 2011
31
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The Book of General Ignorance
John Mitchinson, Alan Davies, John Lloyd, Stephen Fry
January 2011
27
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The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
January 2011
17
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Robert Darnton
January 2011
7
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The Tunnel
William H. Gass
December 2010
30
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
David Shields
December 2010
9
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Little Black Book of Stories
A.S. Byatt
December 2010
7
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Paradise Lost
John Milton
November 2010
30
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The Ruined Map
Kōbō Abe, E. Dale Saunders
October 2010
31
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
October 2010
24
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Barry Miles
October 2010
23
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At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
October 2010
7
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
September 2010
14
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The School for Atheists: A Novella-Comedy in 6 Acts (El-E-Phant Books)
Arno Schmidt;John E. Woods
September 2010
5
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Factotum
Charles Bukowski
September 2010
4
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
August 2010
31
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SLEEPERS AWAKE
Kenneth Patchen
August 2010
22
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2666
Now to await the translation of the alleged sixth part…
finished reading:
2666
Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
August 2010
17
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Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
July 2010
28
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Herman Melville
July 2010
19
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)
Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
July 2010
17
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Only Revolutions
This should have been a short story. As a 360 (har har) page novel, it was painfully redundant. Not just because it's essenti...
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Only Revolutions
Mark Z. Danielewski