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  • 6 p.

    By Blood: A Novel by Ellen Ullman (Excerpt)

    The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter. http://us.macmillan.com/byblood/EllenUllman

    Category:Books - FictionReads:172Uploaded:03 / 02 / 2012Add to collection
  • 9 p.

    "Girlchild" by Tupelo Hassman (EXCERPT)

    “This first novel is not like anything you or I have ever read. Something between a shocking exposé, a defiant treatise, a prose poem, and an exuberant Girl Scout manual, it is always formally inventive and bursting with energy. Yes, this is an insider’s report confirming the worst you ever allowed yourself to think about lowdown trailer parks. And yet somehow Tupelo Hassman’s book is also a testament to joy and beauty, and to the saving power of language wherever it gets a foothold. She has irrepressible high spirits, which flow forth in this case as brilliance and lyricism. Tupelo Hassman loves life in spite of everything, and you can’t help loving this novel and her.” —Jaimy Gordon, author of the National Book Award winner Lord of Misrule

    Category:Books - FictionReads:755Uploaded:01 / 17 / 2012Add to collection
  • 38 p.

    The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (EXCERPT)

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MIDDLESEX and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. http://www.fsgbooks.com/themarriageplot All rights reserved 2011 Jeffrey Eugenides.

    Category:Books - FictionReads:2,577Uploaded:09 / 27 / 2011Add to collection
  • 25 p.

    Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill (Three Stories)

    A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill’s southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy’s eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell’s Missouri Ozarks. Read the first three stories from the collection here. http://us.macmillan.com/crimesinsouthernindiana

    Category:ThrillersReads:1,134Uploaded:09 / 15 / 2011Add to collection
  • 23 p.

    Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Excerpt)

    “National Book Award winner Johnson (Tree of Smoke) has skillfully packed an epic tale into novella length in this account of the life of Idaho Panhandle railroad laborer Robert Grainer . . . The gothic sensibility of the wilderness and isolated settings and Native American folktales, peppered liberally with natural and human-made violence, add darkness to a work that lingers viscerally with readers . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred) http://www.fsgbooks.com/traindreams

    Category:Books - FictionReads:983Uploaded:09 / 06 / 2011Add to collection
  • 23 p.

    Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum: That Used to Be Us

    Read the chapter "Shock Therapy" from the new book THAT USED TO BE US: HOW AMERICA FELL BEHIND IN THE WORLD IT INVENTED AND HOW WE CAN COME BACK, written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, Dir. of the Foreign Policy Program at Johns Hopkins. Copyright 2011 by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. All rights reserved. http://www.thomaslfriedman.com

    Category:PoliticsReads:8,329Uploaded:09 / 06 / 2011Add to collection
  • 51 p.

    The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto (A Selection)

    Acclaimed novelist Steve Sem-Sandberg drew on this 6,000 page source for much of his novel THE EMPEROR OF LIES - here you can look at the reality behind his story. Reproduced by permission of Yale University Press: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/home.asp

    Category:HistoryReads:907Uploaded:08 / 30 / 2011Add to collection
  • 54 p.

    The Battle for Wisconsin: Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition by Andrew E. Kersten

    By Andrew E. Kersten, author of the critically acclaimed book CLARENCE DARROW: AMERICAN ICONOCLAST. This excerpt comes from the digital-only release by Hill & Wang, 2011. http://www.andrewkersten.com

    Category:PoliticsReads:974Uploaded:08 / 08 / 2011Add to collection
  • 47 p.

    The Gatsby of New Delhi by Siddhartha Deb

    An Excerpt from THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED: A PORTRAIT OF THE NEW INDIA. Copyright 2011 by Siddhartha Deb, all rights reserved. http://us.macmillan.com/thebeautifulandthedamned

    Category:(not categorized)Reads:4,823Uploaded:08 / 04 / 2011Add to collection
  • 24 p.

    The Chairs Are Where the People Go (EXCERPT) by Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti

    Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn’t making the city more fun for you and your friends a super-noble political goal? Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world?

    Category:PhilosophyReads:1,114Uploaded:06 / 24 / 2011Add to collection