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The Prince of los Cocuyos The Prince of los Cocuyos Richard Blanco
The Copenhagen Trilogy The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen
Sontag Sontag Benjamin Moser
Poets in Their Youth Poets in Their Youth Eileen Simpson
One Writer's Beginnings One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty
In the Land of Men In the Land of Men Adrienne Miller
Not Just Jane Not Just Jane Shelley DeWees
Mother Winter Mother Winter Sophia Shalmiyev
The Last Love Song The Last Love Song Tracy Daugherty
The Bughouse The Bughouse Daniel Swift
Tinderbox Tinderbox Megan Dunn
In the Great Green Room In the Great Green Room Amy Gary
Out of Sheer Rage Out of Sheer Rage Geoff Dyer
The Real Lolita The Real Lolita Sarah Weinman
Between Them Between Them Richard Ford
The Age of Disenchantments The Age of Disenchantments Aaron Shulman
Welcome Home Welcome Home Lucia Berlin
Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh Philip Eade
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You Aleksandar Hemon
A Dream Called Home A Dream Called Home Reyna Grande
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De Kooning's Bicycle De Kooning's Bicycle Robert Long
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies John Carey
Prairie Fires Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks John Curran
The Memory Palace The Memory Palace Mira Bartok
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare James Shapiro
My Father's Fortune My Father's Fortune Michael Frayn
Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
The Nightmare of Reason The Nightmare of Reason Ernst Pawel
James Tiptree, Jr. James Tiptree, Jr. Julie Phillips
Sontag Sontag Benjamin Moser
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Who Wrote Shakespeare? Who Wrote Shakespeare? James Shapiro
Limbo Limbo A. Manette Ansay
More Lives Than One: The Remarkable Wilde Family through the Generations More Lives Than One: The Remarkable Wilde Family through the Generations Gerard Hanberry
A Second Wind A Second Wind Philippe Pozzo Di Borgo
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir The Distance Between Us: A Memoir Reyna Grande
East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg Gordon Ball
The Autobiography of Mark Twain The Autobiography of Mark Twain Charles Neider
Singing My Him Song Singing My Him Song Malachy McCourt
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies John Carey
My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father Hanif Kureishi
A Better Woman A Better Woman Susan Johnson
The Source of All Things The Source of All Things Tracy Ross
Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder Penelope Niven
The Red Shoes The Red Shoes Rosemary Sullivan
Joseph Conrad: A Biography Joseph Conrad: A Biography Jeffrey Meyers
The Bradbury Chronicles The Bradbury Chronicles Sam Weller
Baseball Love Baseball Love George Bowering
Bradbury Speaks Bradbury Speaks Ray Bradbury
Cousins: A Memoir Cousins: A Memoir Athol Fugard
Alice Munro Alice Munro Brenda Pfaus
New releases
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Tennessee Williams 101 Tennessee Williams 101 Augustin J Correro
Leo Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity Leo Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity Gilbert K. Chesterton
Childhood Childhood Tove Ditlevsen
The Copenhagen Trilogy The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen
Youth Youth Tove Ditlevsen
Dependency Dependency Tove Ditlevsen
The Copenhagen Trilogy The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen
Featherhood Featherhood Charlie Gilmour
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume One The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume One Samuel Johnson
Cincinnati’s Literary Heritage Cincinnati’s Literary Heritage Kevin Grace
That Time of Year That Time of Year Garrison Keillor
Sometimes You Have to Lie Sometimes You Have to Lie Leslie Brody
One Writer's Beginnings One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty
Fire in the Straw Fire in the Straw Nick Lyons
The Reacher Guy The Reacher Guy Heather Martin
The Mutual Admiration Society The Mutual Admiration Society Mo Moulton
Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell Ian S. MacNiven
The Mystery of Charles Dickens The Mystery of Charles Dickens A.N. Wilson
My Life as a Villainess My Life as a Villainess Laura Lippman
The Mystery of Charles Dickens The Mystery of Charles Dickens A.N. Wilson