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with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins. co-host @youretallpod.

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Book Cover for: A New Hope: Star Wars: Episode IV, George Lucas

A New Hope: Star Wars: Episode IV

George Lucas
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watching the "Silver Screen Edition" of Star Wars. it sucks that George Lucas made a perfect movie that then ruined all our lives

Paperback, Mass Market, 1986

$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Vineland, Thomas Pynchon

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon
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@bureaucatliu wish I could say more but the limits of my capacity as a literary critics are reached here. but you know it when you see it. Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, to me, is the canonical example

Paperback, 1997

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, Mark McGurl

Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

Mark McGurl
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Mark McGurl dedicating The Program Era to "the institution of Sianne Ngai" makes me want to become a celebate monk

Paperback, 2011

$27.00Member price:$27.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko
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the first novel I ever close read as a grad student was Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. it will also be the last.

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bridge: A Poem (Revised), Hart Crane

Bridge: A Poem (Revised)

Hart Crane
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2023 reads, no. 3: The Bridge by Hart Crane

Paperback, 1992

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro
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2022 reads, no. 30: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Paperback, 1990

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Man I Never Met, Adam Schefter

Man I Never Met

Adam Schefter
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Adam Schefter the NFL reporter married a woman whose husband died on 9/11 and then wrote a book about it called "The Man I Never Met"

Paperback, 2019

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century, Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century

Jean-Luc Godard
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I don't think it's an exaggeration to say I wouldn't be the person I am without Jean-Luc Godard. As they've done for so many, his films taught me what cinema could be (and what it couldn't), opening up a whole world and provoking encounters with so many new thoughts. RIP.

Hardcover, 2000

$150.00Member price:$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: McTeague, Frank Norris

McTeague

Frank Norris
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2023 reads, no. 1: McTeague by Frank Norris

Paperback, Mass Market, 2011

$7.95Member price:$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11, Lindsay Thomas

Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11

Lindsay Thomas
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I've got a review in the new issue of NOVEL, of Lindsay Thomas's Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11: https://t.co/nMR5I1NFK0

Paperback, 2021

$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)