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Likes crustaceans. You can preorder my new poetry collection DEATH EGG, out in early September: https://t.co/RzydOaOJvi

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Book Cover for: Ulysses, James Joyce

Ulysses

James Joyce
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Felt good reading excerpt about James Joyce describing him as a monstrous drinker who also frequently underwent periods of temperance, unable to balance either extreme, feel justified in having a couple beers after work because of this, I'm like, yeah, I'm like Ulysses...

Paperback, 1990

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Everything Is Totally Fine, Zac Smith

Everything Is Totally Fine

Zac Smith
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Several ending lines from Everything Is Totally Fine by Zac Smith that I particularly enjoyed https://t.co/mIfirSbQd7

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Book Cover for: Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson
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Insane-seeming passages from the book Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson https://t.co/NDPbq3KFe0

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Book Cover for: Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis
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New blogpost on the type of bestselling novel I'd like to write, with options ranging from Kafkaesque-style book to Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero-style book to Ryū Murakami Almost Transparent Blue-style book https://t.co/2NaX3ufDgj

Paperback, 1998

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Underworld, Don Delillo

Underworld

Don Delillo
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Gf's 7-year old's baseball game reminded me of the masterful opening sequence of Don DeLillo's Underworld in which the Giants pull a shocking comeback win against the Dodgers

Paperback, 1998

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dogwalker: Stories, Arthur Bradford

Dogwalker: Stories

Arthur Bradford
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@hopes_revenge only able to finish 'big ones' cuz I trained my brain to view them as like, turning on a sitcom and tuning out. I'm mostly into short story collections so your mileage may vary but I remember Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford being good and fucked

Paperback, 2002

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace is one of the few works whose themes endure even in a modern context, the moral of most books is some Moby Dick shit like 'don't chase an immortal fantasy whale' whereas Tolstoy's lessons -- the Russian invasion of Ukraine is moral and justified -- stay relevant

Paperback, 1993

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Ulysses

Joyce James
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Felt good reading excerpt about James Joyce describing him as a monstrous drinker who also frequently underwent periods of temperance, unable to balance either extreme, feel justified in having a couple beers after work because of this, I'm like, yeah, I'm like Ulysses...

Paperback, 2017

$25.20$12.60 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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I Like To

Library for All
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My favorite place to be registered to vote is my parent's town, I like to vote on all the spending initiatives that increase their taxes, I wish I could vote for the million dollar library this year

Paperback, 2021

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Desperate Characters, Paula Fox

Desperate Characters

Paula Fox
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Reading Desperate Characters (a Novel) by Paula Fox. Jonathan Franzen says that the first time he read Desperate Characters he...fell in love with it https://t.co/l5BNM75BMv

Paperback, 2015

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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