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New in August: Best Thought, Worst Thought and The Half-Known World


Cover image of Best Thought, Worst ThoughtBest Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work, and Death
by Don Paterson

Finally, a gift book for those who hate gift books. No deep thoughts, touching anecdotes, or bits of wisdom here. Just "clever, addictive, and funny" aphorisms. (Nick Hornby)
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Cover image of Half-Known WorldThe Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction by Robert Boswell
A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by novelist Robert Boswell, “one of America’s finest fiction writers.” (Tom Perrotta)
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Upcoming Events

Thu, Aug 21st, @12:00am
Robert Boswell Reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury, VT)
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Book: Half-Known World >>

Fri, Aug 22nd, @12:00am
Robert Boswell Reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury, VT)
Author: Robert Boswell >>
Book: Half-Known World >>

Sat, Aug 23rd, @12:00am
Robert Boswell Reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury, VT)
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Book: Half-Known World >>

Sun, Aug 24th, @12:00am
Robert Boswell Reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury, VT)
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Book: Half-Known World >>

Sat, Aug 30th, @5:30pm
Salvatore Scibona Reading at West Tisbury Free Public Library (Tisbury, MA)
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Sat, Aug 30th, @12:00pm
Jeffery Renard Allen Reading at the AJC Decatur Book Festival (Decatur, GA)
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“The wondrous The Maverick Room, Ellis’s opus of sonic site-specific artistry, reminds us of Ralph Ellison’s sampling of Emerson’s observation that ‘geography is fate.’” —Michael Eric Dyson

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Rich in opinion and theory, After Confession offers the first thorough discussion on the lyric "I"—the boundaries between literal and emotional truth, memory and imagination, person and persona, narcissism and revelation.
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