An anthology of top-selected fiction and non-fiction entries by forefront literary contributors includes Bill Buford's memories of a wild night, Jonathan Safran Foer's vision of a transplanted mythical Sixth Borough and Marie Winn's answer to Holden Caulfiend's question about where ducks go when the pond freezes. Original.
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Henny on the Couch
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Successful shop-owner, Kara Caine Lawson confronts the choices she's made in life and worries about the difficulties her daughter, Henny, is currently having, as she tries to juggle lost library books, entitled customers and date nights with her husband. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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In what many perceive as a coldly relentless digital age, Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Russo has teamed up with his daughter, artist Kate Russo, to present this tribute to the printed book. This handsome and inventive format—four individually bound volumes gathered in a slipcase—combines the previously unpublished novella “Intervention” with three shorter works, two of which have not been published in book form. The four tales in Interventions crackle with Russo’s perceptive wit…
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Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir
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Her mother, Gloria, was a brainy knockout whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was James Jones, the award-winning author of From Here to Eternity and other acclaimed novels of World War II . Kaylie Jones grew up amid such family friends as William Styron, Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, and Willie Morris, and socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Kurt Vonnegut. When her father died from heart failure complicated by years of drin…
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Sea Change: Poems
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A new volume by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dream of the Unified Field and The End of Beauty explores a metaphorical threshold at which civilization as it is known becomes unsustainable in the face of unrealized passions, regrets, and limited prospects. Original.
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Brings together the 100 best stories from the online experiment Significant Objects, in which authors write stories about souvenirs and novelty items to see if the story increases the objects' value in online auctions, in a book that includes contributions by William Gibson, Meg Cabot, Colson Whitehead, Sheila Heti, Jonathan Lethem and others. Original.
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Some Girls: My Life In a Harem
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At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace …
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In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge fund manager flees the country. An Iraq War vet seeks revenge. And an angry young extremist plots a major catastrophe.The City is many things: a proving ground, a decadent carniva…
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Forced to hide her grief when her married lover dies unexpectedly, museum curator Catherine Gehrig works in solitude to restore a 19th-century automaton and finds comfort in the journals of its adventurous commissioner. By the two-time Man Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda. 50,000 first printing.
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Explores how New Orleans has become a center of American reinvention in the years since Hurricane Katrina, documenting the contributions of urban planners, celebrities, anarchists and politicians who have advanced competing visions of recovery. By the author of How Lincoln Learned to Read. 25,000 first printing.
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The Taste of Salt
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When Josie Henderson's brother Tick arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past and her own patterns of addiction.
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A New York Times political cartoonist and writer presents a collection of his most popular essays and drawings about life and government hypocrisy, exploring the darkly comic aspects of such topics as falling in love with unlikeable people, managing a friend with outspoken political views and reacting to a long acquaintance's sex-change operation. By the creator of The Pain--When Will It End?
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Witches on the Road Tonight
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As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley's quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother's witchcraft. But when he's visited by a writer and glamorous photographer researching American folklore for the WPA, the spell of his mother's unorthodox life is violently disrupted, and Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town.He leaves for New York and becomes a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. Thoug…
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In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan, where civilian team member Mark Spitz works to eliminate remaining infected stragglers and remembers his horrifying experiences at the height of the zombie plague. By the Whiting Writers' Award-winning author of Sag Harbor.
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