The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
Author: Nicholson Baker
From the bestselling author of Vox comes a collection of quirky, brilliant essays that turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. The essays, some of which have been published in The New Yorker, celebrate the joy–and exquisite details–of everything from library card catalogs and reading aloud to the significance of wine stains on a tablecloth…..Read More
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From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural Heritage Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Russian Fiction, Translations Into English, United States
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BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED.Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In English American Writers 1945 1999 Texts, History Of Biblical Events, Suspense Fiction
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Saturday
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