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Book Cover for: How Strange a Season: Fiction, Megan Mayhew Bergman

How Strange a Season: Fiction

Megan Mayhew Bergman
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The Review's sixth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contest starts TODAY! This year’s judges are Megan Mayhew Bergman in fiction, Major Jackson in poetry, and Alexander Chee in creative nonfiction. https://t.co/Hosm7wJsWV https://t.co/mlhlKx1z71

Hardcover, 2022

$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Three Women, Lisa Taddeo

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo
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The Sewanee Review honors the best work published in the magazine’s pages every year. The Robert B. Heilman Award for the best review published in 2019 is awarded to @smdanler for “Her Kind: A Reaction to Lisa Taddeo's Three Women” @lisadtaddeo . . . https://t.co/KKwrfqVy2c

Paperback, 2020

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Ninth Hour, Alice McDermott

The Ninth Hour

Alice McDermott
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Congrats to Alice McDermott, whose novel The Ninth Hour is a finalist for a 2017 @bookcritics Award! Read McDermott's essay "Only Connect," which won the 2017 Monroe Spears Prize, given to the best nonfiction published in SR last year: https://t.co/bLvbKTljzA https://t.co/BWOT2uxhw8

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Metamorphoses, Ovid

Metamorphoses

Ovid
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Read poetry by @VChangPoet and @PBW_Poet; fiction by @bukusarkar, @TarynBowe, and @jenloganmeyer; nonfiction by #RyanBradley; with a new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by @samccart1; a craft essay by @alienvsrobbins; and more. #SRSummer2021 #NewSince1892 https://t.co/t3QMcCuSVN

Paperback, 2004

$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews

A Complicated Kindness

Miriam Toews
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Today on the blog Assistant Editor Annie Adams reviews two novels by Miriam Toews! On 'A Complicated Kindness': "Its wit is of the sharp, raucous, nearly cruel variety perfected by teenagers." https://t.co/DrzBzpsb3P https://t.co/TR9doUwNDN

Paperback, 2019

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Snow, Joan Clark

Snow

Joan Clark
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This week on The Conglomerate, @kara_olso—the poetry winner of 2020's contest, whose poem “Last Night” appears in our Winter 2021 issue—examines “Snow” by Jim Moore. https://t.co/E1s4BE25UA https://t.co/vWeLQB7Jwu

Paperback, 2019

$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Why Visit America: Stories, Matthew Baker

Why Visit America: Stories

Matthew Baker
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In this episode, assistant editor Luke Gair talks with @mwektaehtabr about his most recent story collection, WHY VISIT AMERICA. Baker’s stories investigate questions of consumerism, technology, and identity. Head to the link in our bio to listen to the full episode. https://t.co/hirrlBizwZ

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Book Cover for: Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation, Ovid

Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation

Ovid
The Sewanee ReviewThe Sewanee Review

Read poetry by @VChangPoet and @PBW_Poet; fiction by @bukusarkar, @TarynBowe, and @jenloganmeyer; nonfiction by #RyanBradley; with a new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by @samccart1; a craft essay by @alienvsrobbins; and more. #SRSummer2021 #NewSince1892 https://t.co/t3QMcCuSVN

Hardcover, 2016

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Overstory, Richard Powers

The Overstory

Richard Powers
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More congratulations to 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction, Richard Powers, for The Overstory. https://t.co/AGOkbP7kZy Read a review of the winning novel by @DavveroDomini here: https://t.co/wgHloug627

Paperback, 2019

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Guillotine: Poems, Eduardo C. Corral

Guillotine: Poems

Eduardo C. Corral
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For our Stanzas web feature, we ask writers to introduce us to their favorite poets by way of a handful of lines. This week, @michaelprior06, whose poem “Palinode” appears in our Spring 2021 issue, takes a closer look at “Guillotine” by @EduardoCCorral. https://t.co/q4v6nbyPmZ https://t.co/CFb1WdbfG1

Paperback, 2020

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book