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  • The Size of Thoughts (Essays and Other Lumber) by Nicholson Baker, 9780679776246
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  • Pragmatism (A Reader) by Louis Menand, 9780679775447
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  • Latin American Writers at Work by Paris Review, George Plimpton, Derek Walcott, Ronald Christ, Pablo Neruda, 9780679773498
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  • Beneath Mulholland (Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts) by David Thomson, 9780679772910
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  • Family (American Writers Remember Their Own) by Sharon Sloan Fiffer, 9780679772743
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  • Home (American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own) by Sharon Sloan Fiffer, Steven Fiffer, 9780679768852
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  • Art Objects (Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery) by Jeanette Winterson, 9780679768203
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  • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder (Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology) by Lawrence Weschler, 9780679764892
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  • Reasonable Creatures (Essays on Women and Feminism) by Katha Pollitt, 9780679762782
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  • Letters from London by Julian Barnes, 9780679761617
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  • Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison, 9780679760009
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  • Six Myths of Our Time (Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More) by Marina Warner, 9780679759249
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  • The Heart That Bleeds (Latin America Now) by Alma Guillermoprieto, 9780679757955
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  • Sidetracks (Explorations of a Romantic Biographer) by Richard Holmes, 9780679757719
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  • Heart Of The Land (Essays on Last Great Places) by Joseph Barbato, Lisa Weinerman, 9780679755012
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  • Salvador by Joan Didion, 9780679751830
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  • Vamps & Tramps (New Essays) by Camille Paglia, 9780679751205
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  • Meditations from a Movable Chair (Essays) by Andre Dubus, 9780679751151
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  • Passionate Minds (Women Rewriting the World) by Claudia Roth Pierpont, 9780679751137
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  • The Purloined Clinic (Selected Writings) by Janet Malcolm, 9780679748106
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  • The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings) by Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Sutin, 9780679747871
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  • The Cabin (Reminiscence and Diversions) by David Mamet, 9780679747208
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  • Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, 9780679746317
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  • After Henry by Joan Didion, 9780679745396
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  • Migrations to Solitude (The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World) by Sue Halpern, 9780679742418
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  • Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power (Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality) by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky, 9780679741459
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  • Passions of the Mind (Selected Writings) by A. S. Byatt, 9780679736783
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  • This Quiet Dust (And Other Writings) by William Styron, 9780679735960
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  • Metaphor & Memory by Cynthia Ozick, 9780679734253
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  • Freud's Vienna & Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim, 9780679731887
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  • Bachelor Girls by Wendy Wasserstein, 9780679730620
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  • The Vintage Mencken (The Finest and Fiercest Essays of the Great Literary Iconoclast) by H.L. Mencken, Alistair Cooke, 9780679728955
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  • Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov, 9780679726098
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  • A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul, 9780679724889
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  • Forewords and Afterwords by W. H. Auden, 9780679724858
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  • The Dyer's Hand by W. H. Auden, 9780679724841
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  • Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein, 9780679724643
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  • Playwrights at Work by Paris Review, George Plimpton, John Lahr, 9780679640219
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  • Hell's Angels (A Strange and Terrible Saga) - 9780679603313 by Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, 9780679603313
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  • God In All Worlds (An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing) by Lucinda Vardey, 9780676970029
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  • Best African American Essays 2010 by Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Nikki Giovanni, Dorothy Sterling, Chris Abani, 9780553385373
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  • Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins, 9780553383539
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 9780553213881
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  • The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin, 9780553210750
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  • Ideas And Opinions by Albert Einstein, 9780517884409
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  • Self-Reliance (The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living) by Richard Whelan, 9780517585122
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  • Thinking Out Loud (On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private) by Anna Quindlen, 9780449909058
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  • Let the Word Go Forth (The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedy 1947 to 1963) by Theodore Sorensen, 9780440504061
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  • Arguably (Essays) by Christopher Hitchens, 9781455502783
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  • A Mencken Chrestomathy (His Own Selection of His Choicest Writings) by H.L. Mencken, 9780394752099
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  • The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky, James Peck, 9780394751733
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  • Two Towns in Provence (Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town, A Celebration of Aix-en-Provence & Marseille) by M.F.K. Fisher, 9780394716312
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  • As They Were (Autobiographical Essays) by M.F.K. Fisher, 9780394713489
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  • The Necessary Angel (Essays on Reality and the Imagination) by Wallace Stevens, 9780394702780
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  • Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe, 9780385721332
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  • Lost Classics (Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission) by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding, 9780385720861
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  • Safekeeping (Some True Stories from a Life) by Abigail Thomas, 9780385720557
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  • I Like Being Married (Treasured Traditions, Rituals and Stories) by Michael Leach, Therese J. Borchard, 9780385502320
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  • Totally, Tenderly, Tragically (Essays and Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies) by Phillip Lopate, 9780385492508
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  • The Grim Reader (Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On) by Maura Spiegel, Richard Tristman, 9780385485272
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  • Night Beat (A Shadow of Rock & Roll) by Mikal Gilmore, 9780385484367
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  • The Art of the Essay, 1999 by Phillip Lopate, 9780385484152
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  • The Anchor Essay Annual (The Best of 1997) by Phillip Lopate, 9780385484138
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  • Portrait of My Body (A Memoir in Essays) by Phillip Lopate, 9780385483773
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  • To Be Real (Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism) by Rebecca Edby Walker, 9780385472623
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  • Palm Sunday (An Autobiographical Collage) by Kurt Vonnegut, 9780385334266
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  • Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons ((Opinions)) by Kurt Vonnegut, 9780385333818
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  • An Invitation to the Opera (The Perfect Companion for Opera Enjoyment, Entertaining and Enlightening to Novices and Aficionados Alike) by John L. Digaetani, 9780385263399
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  • The Rationalists (Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics) by Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz, 9780385095402
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  • The Moth by The Moth, Catherine Burns, Adam Gopnik, George Dawes Green, 9781401311117
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  • Under the Influence (The Literature of Addiction) by Rebecca Shannonhouse, Pete Hamill, 9780375757167
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  • The Fun of It (Stories from The Talk of the Town) by Lillian Ross, David Remnick, E. B. White, James Thurber, John Updike, 9780375756498
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  • The Messenger Reader (Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine) by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West, 9780375755392
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  • The Opportunity Reader (Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine) by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, 9780375753794
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  • Travels in a Thin Country (A Journey Through Chile) by Sara Wheeler, 9780375753657
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  • The Crisis Reader (Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine) by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, 9780375752315
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  • Beat Writers at Work by Paris Review, George Plimpton, Richard Moody, 9780375752155
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  • Here First (Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers) by Arnold Krupat, Brian Swann, 9780375751387
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  • The Last Empire (Essays 1992-2000) by Gore Vidal, 9780375726392
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  • My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell, 9780375726309
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  • Shiksa Goddess ((Or, How I Spent My Forties) Essays) by Wendy Wasserstein, 9780375726033
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  • Somebody Told Me (The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg) by Rick Bragg, 9780375725524
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  • Quarrel & Quandary (Essays) by Cynthia Ozick, 9780375724459
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  • The Philosopher's Handbook (Essential Readings from Plato to Kant) by Stanley Rosen, 9780375720116
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  • A New World Order (Essays) by Caryl Phillips, 9780375714030
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  • Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste (A Lester Bangs Reader) by Lester Bangs, John Morthland, 9780375713675
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  • Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger, 9780375713187
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  • The Weather of Words (Poetic Inventions) by Mark Strand, 9780375709708
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  • Plainwater (Essays and Poetry) by Anne Carson, 9780375708428
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  • Trading Twelves (The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray) by Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, John Callahan, John Callahan, Albert Murray, 9780375708053
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  • Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell, 9780375708046
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  • The Writer and the World (Essays) by V. S. Naipaul, 9780375707308
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  • The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips, 9780375707049
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  • The Peter Matthiessen Reader by Peter Matthiessen, Mckay Jenkins, 9780375702723
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  • Compass Points (How I Lived) by Edward Hoagland, 9780375702402
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  • Always in Pursuit (Fresh American Perspectives) by Stanley Crouch, 9780375701689
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  • Ornament and Silence (Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer) by Kennedy Fraser, 9780375701122
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  • O.K. You Mugs (Writers on Movie Actors) by Lucy Sante, Melissa Pierson, 9780375700927
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  • Reading Dance (A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras) by Robert Gottlieb, 9780375421228
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  • Collected Prose by James Merrill, 9780375411366
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