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| Kim Addonizio The Palace of Illusions |
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| Ken Babbs Grog All Around |
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| J. T. Barbarese Super 8 |
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| Rick Bass Midland |
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| Rick Bass The Diezmo, Part One |
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| Rick Bass The Diezmo, Part Two |
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| Rick Bass The Diezmo, Part Three |
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| Richard Bausch Sixty-five Million Years |
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| Ann Beattie Just Going Out |
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| Ann Beattie The Rock |
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| Nicky Beer The Word |
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| Mermer Blakeslee Leenie |
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| T. Coraghessan Boyle Shorty’s Paradise |
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| Wesley Brown Women from Mars |
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| Craig Bueltel Uncle Peter |
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| Chandler Burr You, or Someone Like You |
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| Gary Buslik Don’t Open That Door |
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| Elea Carey First Love, Last Love |
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| Ron Carlson The N |
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| Jeffrey Colvin Fathers and Sons |
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| David Corbett Sin Vergüenza |
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| Lacy Crawford Refinement |
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| Michael Croft Lester Leaps In |
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| Michael Croley Promises |
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| Bridgett M. Davis Rae Rae |
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| Ree Davis Watermark |
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| E. L. Doctorow Emily |
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| Darrach Dolan Riot |
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| Pia Z. Ehrhardt Famous Fathers |
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| Pia Z. Ehrhardt Tell Me in Italian |
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| Cai Emmons The Stylist |
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| Don Evans Whatever’s Left of Normal |
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| Charlotte Forbes Parasols 1934 |
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| Lynn Freed This Flesh, This Ghost |
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| Abby Frucht Is Glistening |
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| Abby Frucht Rehearsals |
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| Alma García The Great Beyond |
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| Alicia Gifford Toggling the Switch |
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| Golda Goldbloom Wyalkatchem Stories |
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| Tom Grimes Redemption Song, Part One |
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| Tom Grimes Redemption Song, Part Two |
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| Tom Grimes Redemption Song, Part Three |
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| Ron Hansen The Wreck of the Deutschland |
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| Skip Horack Bluebonnet Swamp |
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| James D. Houston Daily Evangelism |
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| Laura Jamison Latinera |
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| Charles Johnson Night Watch, 500 BCE |
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| Ward Just Florette |
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| James Kaplan Blind Date |
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| X. J. Kennedy Grinder |
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| Steve Kistulentz Reykjavík the Beautiful |
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| Don Lee Diplomacy |
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| Min Jin Lee Axis of Happiness |
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| Min Jin Lee Free Food for Millionaires |
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| Edan Lepucki Animals |
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| Douglas Light Echo Chamber |
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| Lorraine Lopez The Threat of Peace |
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| Twister Marquiss Road to Somewhere Else |
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| Kent Meyers The Car That Loved Water |
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| Carol Moldaw The Widening |
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| Joyce Carol Oates Between Us There’s a Secret |
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| Ann Pancake The End of the World in Slow Motion |
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| Sameer Pandya Patrick Ewing’s Father |
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| Jayne Anne Phillips Language Immersion Seoul |
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| Hannah Pittard Pretty Parts |
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| Padgett Powell Three Short Pieces |
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| Emily Rapp November |
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| Shann Ray Mrs. Secrest |
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| Debra Spark A Wedding Story |
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| Terese Svoboda Africa |
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| Terese Svoboda Nothing Bad Had Happened Yet |
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| Bryan Swan Warm Milk |
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| Robin Troy Liberty Lanes |
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| James Warner Gwendolyn, Or Shame Intruding Briefly on Guilt |
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| Don Waters The Bulls at San Luis |
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| Josh Weil Mirza |
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| Tobias Wolff Übermensch |
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| Krystn Lee Yang The Salaryman |
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| Tiphanie Yanique Where Tourists Don’t Go |
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| Claudia Zuluaga Okeechobee |
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| Michelle Bitting Little Gifts |
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| Amy Knox Brown Aeneas Leaves Kansas |
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| Robert Olen Butler Weegee Stories |
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| Alma García Letter to El Mateo |
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| Barry Gifford Door to the River |
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| Robin Hemley All Good Things Are Surprises |
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| Brandon Hobson A Place for Us |
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| Robert Garner McBrearty Teach Us |
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| Susan Moldaw Certainty |
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| Liesl Wilke How It Is |
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| Frank Conroy with Lacy Crawford |
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| Shannon Ravenel with Lacy Crawford |
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| Jack Shoemaker with Lacy Crawford |
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| Geoffrey Wolff with Lacy Crawford |
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| Alan Ziegler with Lacy Crawford |
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| Lynn Ahrens One-man Show |
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| N. E. Anderson A Soldier’s Lover |
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| Bill Barich A Real Writer |
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| Bill Barich Houseboys |
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| Bill Barich True Believers |
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| Rick Bass Shy |
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| Roy Blount Jr. Oysters |
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| Abraham Brennan Where the Rubber Meets the Road |
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| Scott Cohen Senior-Year Psychology |
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| Pia Z. Ehrhardt What Would You Have Me Do? |
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| Gail Godwin Solo Notes |
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| Donald Hall Eleven Days |
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| Saidiya Hartman A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route |
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| Olivia Chia-lin Lee Pimp |
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| Dahlma Llanos Figueroa Cuban Portraits |
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| Joyce Carol Oates A Fragmented Diary in a Fragmented Time |
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| Ned Parker After Saddam |
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| Ned Parker On to Baghdad |
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| Ned Parker The Oil Sheikh |
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| Roberta Payne Victoria |
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| James and Kay Salter Life Is Meals |
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| Wendy Sanford Bodies |
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| Jane Smiley Pagentry, Intrigue, Contemplation, Mystery |
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| Robert Stone Riding the Dawg |
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| Michael Wolff A Model Prisoner |
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| Michael Wolff Letter from Mexico |
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| Katayoon Zandvakili The Arrest |
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| Alan Ziegler Eight Stories, Based on a True Life |
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| Michael Wiegers Poetry Editor’s Note |
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| Michael Dickman Returning to Church |
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| Sascha Feinstein Plutonium |
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| Dan Gerber Three Poems |
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| David Guterson Three Poems |
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| Jim Harrsion Two Poems |
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| Ted Kooser An Old Sidewalk |
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| Sarah Lindsay Song of a Spadefoot Toad |
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| Lisa Olstein Two Poems |
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| Benjamin Alire Sáenz Confessions |
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| Arthur Sze Grand Bay |
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| Ann Beattie with Lacy Crawford |
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Narrative Reading, Seattle with MacKenzie Bezos, Charles D’Ambrosio, and Rick Bass |
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Narrative Night, Denver with Carol Edgarian, James and Kay Salter, and Rick Bass |
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Narrative Reading, NYC with James Salter, Min Jin Lee, and Pia Z. Ehrhardt |
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Tom Jenks Introduction to Narrative Reading
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Min Jin Lee Free Food for Millionaires
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Pia Z. Ehrhardt Famous Fathers
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| Saul Bellow Leaving the Yellow House |
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| Gina Berriault The Woman in the Rose-Colored Dress |
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| Elizabeth Bowen Notes on Writing a Novel |
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| Frank Conroy Gossip |
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| Andre Dubus A Father’s Story |
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| Donald Hall Poetry and Ambition |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne My Kinsman, Major Molineux |
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| V.S. Pritchett Blind Love |
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| Jean Stafford An Influx of Poets |
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| Peter Taylor A Spinster’s Tale |
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| Ivan Turgenev Bezhin Meadow |
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Robin TroyMontana
|Sameer PandyaNew York City
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Krystn LeeSeoul
|Seth FishmanTexas
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Matt PiepenburgFrance
|Craig BueltelColorado
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Mark MacNamaraMorocco
|Chris McClellandFlorida
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R. Z. ChewLos Angeles
|Jay KatsirManhattan
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Jeannette TysonTexas
|Tina NettesheimCalifornia
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Amy BeckerLondon
|Barbara BaerIstanbul
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Lisette MendezMiami Beach
|Alita AndersonSavannah
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Shelley BinkleyGlenwood Springs
|Robert PerkinsNorthwest Territory
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Mark YakichBelgium
|Tara LumpkinNamibia
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Robert BeattyBig Sur
|Amy PetersTelluride
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Caroline LedeboerCedar Falls
|Paula SpeckMexico City
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Christian LewisManhattan
|Debra HughesWhite Sands
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Mimi KuschAlbuquerque
|Cory McAlisterPortland
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Robert BeattyColorado
|Scott McCabeBoston
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Li Miao LovettChina
|Janel MosesIsrael
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David SnyderTexas
|Erika TeschkeWashington State
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Alicita RodríguezColorado
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Victoria GomelskyNew York City
|Abby FruchtFlagstaff
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Emily BainesRome
| AnonymousWatertown
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Margaret WatersAustin
|Marc PetersenSan Francisco
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William MalesSweden
|Karen PetersonDurango
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Michele F. CooperProvidence
|Laura RosePennsylvania
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Bruce DodsonRio de Janeiro
|Reese KwonNew York City
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Mahbub ShansabKabul
|Katie GutierrezLaredo
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Carolyn BriggsIowa
|Mike DiCoccoConnecticut
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Kate McGovernEast Harlem
|John Douglas MarshallSeattle
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Julie DearbornMonterey, California
|Dallas GarredIxtapa, Mexico
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Hauquan ChauNagoya, Japan
|Lisa Ohlen HarrisAmman, Jordan
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Penny DyerChattanooga, Tennessee
|F. B. ReedDel Mar, California
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| Will Allison What You Have Left: A Novel |
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| Steve Almond The Evil B. B. Chow and Other Stories |
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| William Benton Madly |
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| Wendell Berry The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays |
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| Larry Brown Facing the Music |
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| Lawrence Buell The American Transcendentalists |
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| Carmen Callil Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland, and Vichy France |
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| Evan Connell Mrs. Bridge |
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| Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent |
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| Joan Didion Play It As It Lays |
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| E. L. Doctorow Reporting the Universe |
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| Pia Z. Ehrhardt Famous Fathers and Other Stories |
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| Deborah Eisenberg The Twilight of the Superheroes |
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| Percival Everett Erasure |
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| E. M. Forster Howards End |
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| Lynn Freed Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home |
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| Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory |
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| Zona Gale Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories |
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| Gail Godwin The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963 |
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| Jim Harrison The Summer He Didn’t Die |
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| John Heilpern John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man |
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| Rachel Ingalls Times Like These |
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| Min Jin Lee Free Food for Millionaires |
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| Richard Lingeman Double Lives: American Writers’ Friendships |
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| Beryl Markham West with the Night |
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| William Maxwell Time Will Darken It |
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| Jill McCorkle Crash Diet |
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| Russell McCormmach Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist |
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| John McPhee The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed |
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| Iréne Nèmirovsky Suite Francaise |
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| V. S. Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival |
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| R. K. Narayan Malgudi Days |
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| Lewis Nordan Wolf Whistle |
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| Michael Ondaatje Coming Through Slaughter |
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| Peter Orner Esther Stories |
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| Matt Pavelich Our Savage |
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| Robert Phelps Colette: Earthly Paradise |
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| Reynolds Price A Long and Happy Life |
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| Barry Raine Where the River Bends |
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| Peter Rock The Bewildered |
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| Philip Roth The Ghost Writer |
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| Edward Said On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain |
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| James Salter Gods of Tin |
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| James Salter Last Night |
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| W. G. Sebald The Emigrants |
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| Cynthia Shearer The Celestial Jukebox |
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| William Styron A Tidewater Morning |
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| Leo Tolstoy Childhood, Boyhood & Youth |
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| Victoria Vinton Jungle Law |
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| Eudora Welty One Writer’s Beginnings |
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Geoffrey Wolff Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby |
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| Tobias Wolff The Barracks Thief |
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