San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler writes with a deliberately un-gussied-up and nearly hardboiled verse style about fringe existence in America. In SLEEPING IT OFF IN RAPID CITY, Kleinzahler's topics include drunks, strip mall employees, fast food, butter, and various low pleasures. Despite this ... Read more

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In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."In poems com... Read more

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Newbery Award-winning writer Paula Fox recollects the tragedy of her upbringing in this woeful memoir. With an alcoholic father and a mother who aggressively rejected her, Fox was raised by a collection of diversely irresponsible parties whose eccentricities and cruelties she had to find ways to ove... Read more

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Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism. ... Read more

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In this ninth book by Gluck, a previous Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize recipient, her straightforward and haunting voice approaches autobiographical material, delving into questions about her own past. Gluck's older sister features importantly in this volume. Named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angel... Read more

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Traces the bluegrass country music achievements of the Carter family, from their early playing for self-entertainment and discovery by a New York record maker to their rise to stardom and eventual breakup, noting their influence on the careers of top performers. ... Read more

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"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . [These] pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation to their thought; various species of the avant-garde from Pierre de Ronsard to Degas... Read more

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In this 1986 novel, Roth's perennial antihero and alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, travels to Israel (among other places) and discovers that a price must be paid if he is going to fulfill the dream to change his life--to find for himself a "counterlife" that will be more fulfilling and vital t... Read more

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A new collection of stories by the celebrated author of Love Invents Us introduces a new cast of characters who search for love and satisfaction in a difficult and painful world. ... Read more

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The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed recreates the trials and tribulations of Albany life between world wars by following Roscoe, chief architect of Albany's notorious political machine, as his attempts to quit politics forever are thwarted by new political wars, a mysterious death, se... Read more

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In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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