Sula
Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story spans several decades and explores the complex relationship between two Black-American women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
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Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme
His scrambled visions of history yield unexpected insights. And his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, was for him a guiding light. Delight in his frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring like a well-marbled ribeye.
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Entropy
explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party; other stories included in the volume
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Bad Monkey
_Bad Monkey_ is a wacky romp of a satirical detective story.
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Oh, William!
On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together. William uncovers a hitherto unknown relation…
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Oranges
… a comprehensive exploration of the orange farming and processing business. The book offers a detailed and informative look at the history, science, and economics behind the cultivation, harvesting, and distribution of oranges.
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Both Flesh and Not
Apart from the essay on Roger Federer, the rest are Wallace hitting serves past the line.
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A Confederate General from Big Sur
Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.
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Exhalation - Stories
Chiang's collection tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
_Cloud Cuckoo Land_ is the story of five characters spanning eight centuries.
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Ravelstein
The novel is a roman à clef written as a memoir. The narrator is in Paris with Abe Ravelstein, and Ravelstein, who is dying, asks the narrator to write a memoir about him after he dies.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The novel is about a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he encounters in a depression-era town in Georgia.
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Who Goes There?
The story revolves around a group of scientists in Antarctica, who discover an alien life form trapped in the ice.
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A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin's classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Warlock
Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot
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Motherless Brooklyn
The novel tells the story of Lionel Essrog, a private detective with Tourette's syndrome
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
A disastrous job interview and a confrontation with the police force Ignatius to find real work as a hotdog vendor.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
A post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.
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Why I Live at the PO
a first-person narrative that revolves around the character known as Sister. She recounts the events leading up to her decision to leave her family home.
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Ragtime
_Ragtime_ combines fictional narratives with real-life events, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Think Zelig.
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White Noise
Professor Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a small liberal arts college in rural New York…
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Year of the Monkey
a collection of reality-blended fictional picaresque essays that only Patti Smith can write… totally my jam
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Humboldt's Gift
explores the changing relationship between art and power in a materialist America. This theme is addressed through the contrasting careers of two writers…
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A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
Close readings of a selection of Russian short stories
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The Sportswriter
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people—men, mostly—who live entirely within themselves.
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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Readers as diverse as TS Eliot and Lou Reed appreciated Delmore Schwartz's work.
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Cathedral
his third collection of stories and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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Flying to America
published in 2007, this book presents all of Barthelme’s previously unpublished and uncollected short fiction
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Running Dog
follows Moll Robbins, a New York City journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator