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May We Be Forgiven

Your brother's children's keeper.

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Indecision

Twenty's the new twelve, or something.

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A Farewell to Arms

And that's all he wrote.

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Girlchild

It ain’t easy being a girlchild.

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The Vices

Life’s a mystery in a world without Vice.

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Immobility

What’s cooler than being cold? Cryogenically frozen.

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Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia

No rest for the weary and wordy.

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Zazen

A dystopian vision matched by a dark new voice in… >>

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The Great Night

The mortal world collides with the immortal.

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A Widow’s Story

Oates on her late husband and literary collaborator, Raymond J.… >>

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Kitchen

Two stories about two sets of mourners don’t quite make… >>

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By Nightfall

A middle-aged man discovers the beastly truths of beauty when… >>

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The Safety of Objects

Homes stuns with bleak visions of American life.

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Great House

Four narrators and zero climax make for a tedious portrayal… >>

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Like You’d Understand, Anyway

Legendary Greeks and young American geeks come alive under the… >>

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Jernigan

Misery never sounded as good as it does in this… >>

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Palo Alto

Not as bad as you’d think… sorry, schadenfreuders.

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Self Portraits: Fictions

A surreal and tender collection narrating all the lives a… >>

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Stories in the Worst Way

A wordsmith cobbles together awe-inspiring sentences but sometimes falls short… >>

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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

Not quite attuned to the true voices of Generation Y.

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The Quick and the Dead

Charmingly morbid young girls’ lives tangle strangely following the deaths… >>

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Thumbsucker

A thumb-sucking, pill-popping, Bible-toting joyride through middle-American ennui.

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The Shawl

Ozick contributes a dense and accomplished gem to the Jewish-American… >>

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The History of Love

Love and literature are the life-blood of this remarkable novel.

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Super Sad True Love Story

A super funny, not-quite sad love story for the Facebook… >>

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Joyce Carol Oates

A tirelessly prolific American writer.

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

A demon child acts as her sister’s keeper in… >>

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The Sweet Hereafter

A small town grieves after a tragic bus crash.

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Jesus’ Son

Mind-altering drugs take center stage in this boozy collection of… >>

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Willoughby & the Moon

An eye-popping kid-tested, parent-ogled picture book.

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Tinkers

Filigreed sentences mark each minute of this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale… >>

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What He's Poised to Do

Snail mail makes a comeback in these short stories.

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Giovanni’s Room

A wonderfully compressed vision of a man destined for loneliness.

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Joshua Ferris

A straight shooter unafraid of addressing the big bad malaises… >>

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The Abyss of Human Illusion

Sorrentino’s last work is poisoned by its own sting.

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

A sad little world in which the only requirements for… >>

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American Pastoral

A New Jersey golden boy loses hope when his daughter… >>

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William S. Burroughs

Burroughs challenged the machinations of literature itself.

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J. D. Salinger

Salinger wrote the most influential coming-of-age novel in American literature,… >>

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David Foster Wallace Author

A wildly influential American author known for his innovative, occasionally… >>