The Very Last Interview
By: David Shields
3.74
Format: 120 pages, ebook
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1. A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Jonathan Lethem , L.J. Davis
3.60
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life , is a blistering black comedy about the American quest … read more
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2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
4. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
By: Anne Carson
4.18
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memor… read more
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- nonfiction
"Everything is a naked thought that strikes."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
5. Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock
4.33
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more
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"He lives at Balbec?"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختناش مشکلتر است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازهای برخوردا میکند"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
6. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Journalist and the Murderer
By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack
3.84
Format: 135 pages,
In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more
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9. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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10. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
11. The Captain Lands in Paradise
By: Sarah Manguso
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia,… read more
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12. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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13. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
14. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
By: Edith Wharton , Laszlo Kubinyi
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the tradi… read more
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15. Leaving the Atocha Station
By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more
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16. Contempt
By: Alberto Moravia , Tim Parks , Angus Davidson
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Contemptis a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European l… read more
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17. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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18. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
19. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
20. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
21. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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22. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
23. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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24. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- nonfiction
25. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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26. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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27. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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28. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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29. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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30. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
By: Geoff Dyer
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more
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- memoir
31. The Very Last Interview
By: David Shields
3.74
Format: 120 pages, ebook
In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger, David Shields has compos… read more
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