Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com ...
 Literate Personal Story from inside Amazon.com Little sizzle: 'amazonia' by former amazon.com senior editor James Marcus is a memoir of that company's fifty-fifth employee, hired just a few months after the company moved from founder Jeff Bezos' garage [... more]
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Birds of America: Stories
From Amazon.com: Lorrie Moore made her debut in 1985 with Self-Help, which proved that she could write about sadness, sex, and the single girl with as much tenderness--and with considerably more wit--than almost any of her contemporaries. She followed [... more]
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Body Artist
From Amazon.co.uk: In The Body Artist, Don DeLillo sacrifices breadth for depth, narrowing his focus to a single life, a single death. The protagonist is Lauren Hartke, who we see sharing breakfast with her husband, Rey, in the opening pages. This 18- [... more]
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More Matter: Essays and Criticism
From Amazon.com: Ever since he made his two-pronged prose debut in 1959 with The Poorhouse Fair and The Same Door, John Updike has delivered approximately one work of fiction per year. Few modern novelists have approached this level of productivity, [... more]
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Ulysses
From Amazon.com: Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States-- [... more]
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Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
From Amazon.com: For more than a decade following the end of World War II, Eric Newby toiled away in the British fashion industry, peddling some of the ugliest clothes on the planet. (Regarding one wafer-thin model in her runway best, he was reminded of & [... more]
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Group Therapy
From Amazon.com: Jim McNeely cut his teeth with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra in the late 1970s, and has been the pianist of choice for any number of big bands since then. Yet Group Therapy, recorded with McNeely's own crack 10-piece unit, suggests [... more]
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Swim-Two-Birds
From Amazon.com: In a 1938 letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was At Swim-Two-Birds--and if we take queer to mean diabolically eccentric, [... more]
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Penguin Lives Marcel Proust
From Amazon.com: Marcel Proust documented his existence so lavishly--albeit in fictional form--that many of his biographers have functioned as little more than code-breakers, doggedly translating art back into life. It's a great pleasure, then, to [... more]
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The Hundred Days
From Amazon.com: The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks. How? For [... more]
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The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time
From Amazon.com: "For a long time I used to try to read Proust," recalls Phyllis Rose, evoking both the somnolent opening salvo of Remembrance of Things Past and her own resistance to that mighty, melancholic masterpiece. Happily, she did get [... more]
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Open City: Seven Writers in Post-War Rome
From Amazon.com: Traddutore, traditore, goes the old Italian proverb: To translate is to betray. But William Weaver, who has assembled a fine anthology of contemporary Italian prose in Open City: Seven Writers in Postwar Rome, is anything but treacherous [... more]
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