Cloud Tectonics
By: José Rivera
4.30
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
During a record-breaking Los Angeles deluge, a man gives shelter to a beautiful, pregnant hitch-hik…
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1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more
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"Honey: I know these people ..."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. Topdog/Underdog
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more
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5. Fefu and Her Friends
By: María Irene Fornés
4.00
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more
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6. Suddenly Last Summer
By: Tennessee Williams
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic vo… read more
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7. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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8. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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9. The Birthday Party
By: Harold Pinter
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more
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10. The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comi… read more
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12. Rat Bohemia
By: Sarah Schulman
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat … read more
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13. Zoot Suit
By: Luis Valdez , None , None
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. This bilingual edition combines the original English-language version… read more
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14. August: Osage County
By: Tracy Letts
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage Countyis a … read more
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15. Vile Bodies
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more
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16. Indecent
By: Paula Vogel
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more
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"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."-Paula Vogel, Indecent
17. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By: Jane Alison
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more
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"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
18. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
19. Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
By: Kira Jane Buxton
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a gen… read more
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"Penguins, it turns out, are pretty fucking delightful."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
"Murders are forever, and what happens to one happens to all."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
"The woods carry sounds in their slow rhythms, sounds that only a heart can hear."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
"And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
20. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
21. Cloud Tectonics
By: José Rivera
4.30
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
During a record-breaking Los Angeles deluge, a man gives shelter to a beautiful, pregnant hitch-hik… read more
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