Literary collections

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Avoid the Day Avoid the Day Jay Kirk
The Personals The Personals Brian O’Connell
Essays One Essays One Lydia Davis
Make It Scream, Make It Burn Make It Scream, Make It Burn Leslie Jamison
The Collector of Leftover Souls The Collector of Leftover Souls Eliane Brum
Thin Places Thin Places Jordan Kisner
Just Us Just Us Claudia Rankine
The Best of Me The Best of Me David Sedaris
Coventry Coventry Rachel Cusk
Homo Irrealis Homo Irrealis André Aciman
Approaching Eye Level Approaching Eye Level Vivian Gornick
The Celestial Hunter The Celestial Hunter Roberto Calasso
The Book Collectors The Book Collectors Delphine Minoui
Busted in New York and Other Essays Busted in New York and Other Essays Darryl Pinckney
Screen Tests Screen Tests Kate Zambreno
I Will Take the Answer I Will Take the Answer Ander Monson
The Undying The Undying Anne Boyer
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey Ikpi
Unfinished Business Unfinished Business Vivian Gornick
Silences So Deep Silences So Deep John Luther Adams
Awards
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
Soldier's Heart Soldier's Heart Elizabeth D. Samet
Citizen Citizen Claudia Rankine
Lamentations of the Father Lamentations of the Father Ian Frazier
The Undying The Undying Anne Boyer
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels John Connolly
Coyote V. Acme Coyote V. Acme Ian Frazier
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Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton Richard Horan
Eating the Dinosaur Eating the Dinosaur Chuck Klosterman
Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother Barbara Graham
Rough Likeness: Essays Rough Likeness: Essays Lia Purpura
You're Married to Her? You're Married to Her? Ira Wood
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food Wendell Berry
Resnick on the Loose Resnick on the Loose Mike Resnick
Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself Lewis Grizzard
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Barbara Kingsolver
And the Heart Says Whatever And the Heart Says Whatever Emily Gould
Hemingway on Hunting Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway
I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama Carroll Dale Short
City Parks City Parks Catie Marron
Bad Feminist Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
An Archaeology of Yearning An Archaeology of Yearning Bruce Mills
Writing Past Dark Writing Past Dark Bonnie Friedman
Possibility: Essays Against Despair Possibility: Essays Against Despair Patricia Vigderman
Totem and Taboo Totem and Taboo Sigmund Freud
Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton Bob Blaisdell
Tremendous Trifles Tremendous Trifles G. K. Chesterton
New releases
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Homo Irrealis Homo Irrealis André Aciman
Homo Irrealis Homo Irrealis André Aciman
True North True North Kathryn Olmstead
The Decameron Project The Decameron Project The New York Times
The Best of Me The Best of Me David Sedaris
The Book Collectors The Book Collectors Delphine Minoui
Keep Moving Keep Moving Maggie Smith
Silences So Deep Silences So Deep John Luther Adams
The Writer's Library The Writer's Library Nancy Pearl
The Writer's Library The Writer's Library Nancy Pearl
Just Us Just Us Claudia Rankine
White Hot Light White Hot Light Frank Huyler
Resuming Maurice Resuming Maurice Philip Mosley
Appalachian Fall Appalachian Fall Jeff Young
Appalachian Fall Appalachian Fall Jeff Young
The Unreality of Memory The Unreality of Memory Elisa Gabbert
My Life as a Villainess My Life as a Villainess Laura Lippman
My Life as a Villainess My Life as a Villainess Laura Lippman
How Life Imitates Sports How Life Imitates Sports Ira Berkow
To the Lake To the Lake Kapka Kassabova