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  • The Pushcart Prize XLII (Best of the Small Presses 2018 Edition) by Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize Editors, 9781888889840
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  • Inheriting the War (Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees) by Laren McClung, Yusef Komunyakaa, 9780393354287
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  • How Lovely the Ruins (Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times) by Annie Chagnot, Emi Ikkanda, Elizabeth Alexander, 9780399592836
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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Essays) - 9781250160652 by Joan Didion, 9781250160652
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  • Sometimes I Think About It (Essays) by Stephen Elliott, 9781555977757
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  • Where the Past Begins (A Writer's Memoir) - 9780062688194 by Amy Tan, 9780062688194
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  • Courage Is Contagious (And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama) by Nick Haramis, Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner, Joana Avillez, 9780399592614
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  • The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 (1940-1956) by Sylvia Plath, 9780062740434
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  • Where the Past Begins (A Writer's Memoir) by Amy Tan, 9780062319296
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  • This Is the Place (Women Writing About Home) by Margot Kahn, Kelly McMasters, 9781580056687
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  • We Wear the Mask (15 True Stories of Passing in America) by Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page, 9780807078983
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  • A Lowcountry Heart (Reflections on a Writing Life) - 9780385343534 by Pat Conroy, 9780385343534
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  • On the Unexplained by Arthur Conan Doyle, 9781843916239
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  • Ordinary Beast (Poems) by Nicole Sealey, 9780062688804
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  • Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300) (Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014) by Philip Roth, 9781598535402
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  • This Old Man (All in Pieces) by Roger Angell, 9781101971390
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  • Senior Moments (Looking Back, Looking Ahead) by Willard Spiegelman, 9781250141187
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  • The Book of Calamities (Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning) by Peter Trachtenberg, 9780316158794
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  • Tell You What (Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017) by Susanna Andrew, Jolisa Gracewood, 9781869408602
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  • Against Everything (Essays) - 9781101971741 by Mark Greif, 9781101971741
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  • Seven Pleasures (Essays on Ordinary Happiness) by Willard Spiegelman, 9780312429676
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  • How to Go to the Movies by Quentin Crisp, 9780312299941
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  • Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe, 9780312420239
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  • False Papers (Essays on Exile and Memory) by André Aciman, 9780312420055
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  • Off Ramp (Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere) by Hank Stuever, 9780312424886
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  • The Collected Prose by Robert Lowell, Robert Giroux, 9780374522674
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  • Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody by Ian Frazier, 9780312422851
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  • Where the Stress Falls (Essays) by Susan Sontag, 9780312421311
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  • The Essays of Leonard Michaels - 9780374532260 by Leonard Michaels, 9780374532260
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  • Tales from the Times (Real-Life Stories to Make You Think, Wonder, and Smile, from the Pages of The New York Times) by The New York Times, Lisa Belkin, 9780312312336
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  • Preoccupations (Selected Prose, 1968-1978) by Seamus Heaney, 9780374516505
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  • Alibis (Essays on Elsewhere) by André Aciman, 9781250013989
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  • Myself with Others (Selected Essays) by Carlos Fuentes, 9780374522377
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  • This Is Running for Your Life (Essays) by Michelle Orange, 9780374533328
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  • Access All Areas (Selected Writings 1990-2011) by Sara Wheeler, 9780865478770
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  • Radio On (A Listener's Diary) by Sarah Vowell, 9780312183011
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  • Untold Stories by Alan Bennett, 9780312426620
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  • Marking the Sparrow's Fall (The Making of the American West) by Page Stegner, Wallace Stegner, 9780805062960
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  • American Studies - 9780374529000 by Louis Menand, 9780374529000
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  • Under the Sign of Saturn (Essays) by Susan Sontag, 9780312420086
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  • Collected Prose (Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews: Expanded Edition) by Paul Auster, 9780312429928
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  • lost in language & sound (or how i found my way to the arts: essays) by Ntozake Shange, 9781250035561
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  • The Devils and Canon Barham (Ten Essays On Poets, Novelists and Monsters) by Edmund Wilson, 9780374526696
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  • The Irresponsible Self (On Laughter and the Novel) by James Wood, 9780312424602
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  • The Bit Between My Teeth (A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965) by Edmund Wilson, 9780374506247
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  • Too Soon To Tell by Calvin Trillin, 9780374529864
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  • The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (Essays) by Megan Stielstra, 9780062429209
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  • Classics and Commercials (A Literary Chronicle of the Forties) by Edmund Wilson, 9780374526672
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  • City Lights (Stories About New York) by Dan Barry, 9780312538910
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  • Today's Best Military Writing (The Finest Articles on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Military) by Walter J. Boyne, 9780765308887
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  • One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey, 9780805006032
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  • A Defense of Ardor (Essays) by Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh, 9780374529888
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  • The Perpetual Orgy (Flaubert and Madame Bovary) by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane, 9780374520625
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  • A Plea for Eros (Essays) by Siri Hustvedt, 9780312425531
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  • Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas by Alan Trachtenberg, 9780809065738
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  • Durations (A Memoir and Personal Essays) by Carolyn Osborn, 9781609405441
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  • Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays by Paul Kingsnorth, 9781555977801
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  • Hometown Tales (Recollections of Kindness, Peace, and Joy) by Philip Gulley, 9780061252297
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  • Front Porch Tales (Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love) by Philip Gulley, 9780061252303
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  • A Window on Russia (For the Use of Foreign Readers) by Edmund Wilson, 9780374511418
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  • A Paris All Your Own (Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light) by Eleanor Brown, 9780399574474
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  • Hunger (A Memoir of (My) Body) by Roxane Gay, 9780062362599
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  • France…Really!!! by Dale Gershwin, 9780889627963
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  • Hungry Heart (Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing) - 9781476723426 by Jennifer Weiner, 9781476723426
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  • Blind Spot by Teju Cole, Siri Hustvedt, 9780399591075
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  • The Maximum Security Book Club (Reading Literature in a Men's Prison) - 9780062384348 by Mikita Brottman, 9780062384348
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  • Little Houses, Big Forests (Desire Is No Light Thing) by Siouxzi Connor, 9781910924990
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  • Shaw and His Comtemporaries (Theatre Essays) by Ronald Bryden, 9780889627918
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  • Hogs Wild (Selected Reporting Pieces) - 9781250132154 by Ian Frazier, 9781250132154
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  • Scream (A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction) - 9780062391315 by Tama Janowitz, 9780062391315
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  • The Earth Remembers Everything by Adrienne Fitzpatrick, 9781894759908
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  • Kingdom of Olives and Ash (Writers Confront the Occupation) by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, 9780062431783
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  • Far and Away (How Travel Can Change the World) by Andrew Solomon, 9781476795058
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  • The View from the Cheap Seats (Selected Nonfiction) - 9780062262271 by Neil Gaiman, 9780062262271
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  • Letters to a Young Poet - 9780393310399 by Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton, 9780393310399
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  • Independent Spirit (Essays) by Hubert Butler, 9780374527662
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  • The New York Times: Footsteps (From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World) by New York Times, 9780804189842
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  • One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Essays) by Scaachi Koul, 9781250121028
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  • But What If We're Wrong? (Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past) - 9780399184130 by Chuck Klosterman, 9780399184130
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  • Hope Is a Decision (Selected Essays) by Daisaku Ikeda, 9780977924585
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  • The Time of Our Lives (Politics, Passions, and Provocations) by Peggy Noonan, 9781455563135
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  • My Bookstore (Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop) by Ronald Rice, Richard Russo, Leif Parsons, Emily St. John Mandel, 9780316395076
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  • The Triple Thinkers (Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects) by Edmund Wilson, 9780374513221
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  • Too Much and Not the Mood (Essays) by Durga Chew-Bose, 9780374535957
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  • Your Song Changed My Life by Bob Boilen, 9780062344458
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  • The Good Book (Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages) by Andrew Blauner, 9781476789972
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  • A Country too Far (Writings on Asylum Seekers) by Rosie Scott, Tom Keneally, 9780143574132
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  • The Driftless Land by Kevin Koch, 9780982248966
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  • Ten Windows (How Great Poems Transform the World) by Jane Hirshfield, 9780345806840
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  • What the Twilight Says (Essays) by Derek Walcott, 9780374526832
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  • 300 Arguments (Essays) by Sarah Manguso, 9781555977641
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  • South and West (From a Notebook) by Joan Didion, Nathaniel Rich, 9781524732790
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  • Of Other Worlds (Essays and Stories) by C. S. Lewis, 9780062643544
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  • Letters of C. S. Lewis by C. S. Lewis, 9780062643568
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  • Present Concerns (Journalistic Essays) by C. S. Lewis, 9780062643599
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  • The Abundance (Narrative Essays Old and New) - 9780062432964 by Annie Dillard, 9780062432964
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  • Pretend I'm Not Here (How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp) by Barbara Feinman Todd, 9780062445100
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  • CRUSH (Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush) by Cathy Alter, Dave Singleton, 9780062399564
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  • You, Too, Could Write a Poem by David Orr, 9780143128199
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  • Writing in the Dark (Essays on Literature and Politics) by David Grossman, Jessica Cohen, 9780312428600
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