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New Orleans as It Was - Charles "Pie" Dufour, Henry C. Castellanos
New Orleans as It Was
Charles "Pie" Dufour, Henry C. Castellanos
New Orleans after the Civil War - Justin A. Nystrom
New Orleans after the Civil War
Justin A. Nystrom
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (complete: First & Second Series) - Isabella Augusta Persse (Lady Gregory)
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (complete: First & Second Series)
Isabella Augusta Persse (Lady Gregory)
Bright Dead Things: Poems - Ada Limon
Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limon
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
Desire: Poems - Frank Bidart
Desire: Poems
Frank Bidart
Selected Poems 1976-2012 - Jorie Graham
Selected Poems 1976-2012
Jorie Graham
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry - Wes Davis (Editor)
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
Wes Davis (Editor)
I Am An Executioner: Love Stories - Rajesh Parameswaran
I Am An Executioner: Love Stories
Rajesh Parameswaran
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Little Red Chairs - Edna O'Brien
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Little Red Chairs - Edna O'Brien
text: Atrocity Porn
It’s not a spoiler to say this novel ends with a stirring and poetic image: voices in 35 languages singing the word home in a...
The Little Red Chairs - Edna O'Brien
December 2016
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David Sedaris is pitching this disturbing novel on his book tour and reports he was tipped to it by John Waters, so I absolut...
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
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Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
December 2016
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men David Foster Wallace
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
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Touchy Subjects: Stories - Emma Donoghue
Touchy Subjects: Stories Emma Donoghue
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Classic Irish Short Stories, Vol. 1 - George Augustus Moore
Classic Irish Short Stories, Vol. 1 George Augustus Moore
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The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World - Thomas Keneally
The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World Thomas Keneally
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The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson
The Lost Weekend Charles Jackson
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The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction - Mary Gehman, Lloyd Dennis
The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction Mary Gehman, Lloyd Dennis
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square - Ned Sublette
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square Ned Sublette
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The Louisiana Irish - Margaret Varnell Clark
The Louisiana Irish Margaret Varnell Clark
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Matter of Fact: Poems - Eamon Grennan
Matter of Fact: Poems Eamon Grennan
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Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems - Eamon Grennan
Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems Eamon Grennan
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Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century - Thomas Ruys Smith
Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century Thomas Ruys Smith
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The Infinitesimals - Laura Kasischke
The Infinitesimals Laura Kasischke
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The Gap of Time - Jeanette Winterson
The Gap of Time Jeanette Winterson
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Slade House: A Novel - David Mitchell
Slade House: A Novel David Mitchell
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Thirteen Ways of Looking - Colum McCann
Thirteen Ways of Looking Colum McCann
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Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories - H.P. Lovecraft, Naxos AudioBooks, William Roberts
Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories H.P. Lovecraft, Naxos AudioBooks, William Roberts
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics - Stephen Coss
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics Stephen Coss
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What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell
What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell
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Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.E. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.E. Vance
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The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel - Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Colson Whitehead
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien
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New Orleans: Facts and Legends - Raymond J. Martinez, Jack D.L. Holmes
New Orleans: Facts and Legends Raymond J. Martinez, Jack D.L. Holmes
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Middle Earth: Poems - Henri Cole
Middle Earth: Poems Henri Cole
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The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories - Joy Williams
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories Joy Williams
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My Tender Matador: A Novel - Pedro Lemebel, Katherine Silver
My Tender Matador: A Novel Pedro Lemebel, Katherine Silver
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Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer
Here I Am Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans - Michael D. Pierson
Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans Michael D. Pierson
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The Irish in New Orleans - Laura Kelly
The Irish in New Orleans Laura Kelly
December 2016
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reviewed: Fingersmith
To call Fingersmith a lesbian love story is a disservice on many levels. Never mind that the novel is full of titillation (p...
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
December 2016
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Salman Rushdie
December 2016
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reviewed: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
This is a breezy, well-written, non-academic history of the French Quarter and New Orleans generally -- literary equivalent p...
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld - Herbert Asbury
November 2016
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reviewed: Garden Time
This slim volume of Merwin's work contains certain gems. I was struck by "The Sound of It," a poem lamenting (or maybe just ...
Garden Time - W.S. Merwin
November 2016
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reviewed: Christodora: A Novel
This is an epic history of some of the residents of an East Village building known as the Christadora superimposed on some of...
Christodora: A Novel - Tim Murphy
November 2016
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The Stone Of Truth, And Other Irish Folk Tales - Douglas Hyde
The Stone Of Truth, And Other Irish Folk Tales Douglas Hyde
November 2016
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Best Gay Stories 2016 - Steve Berman
Best Gay Stories 2016 Steve Berman
November 2016
06
reviewed: Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends
This is a delightful modern but faithful retelling of the main legends of Irish literature. Heaney has a breezy, action-driv...
Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends - Marie Heaney
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Night Sweats - Tom Cardamone
Night Sweats Tom Cardamone
October 2016
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reviewed: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
This Booker prize short listed novel is a story of fragments and shards, stops and starts, texts and copies, mathematics and ...
Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
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