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Heavy Bored — 163 episodes

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**UNLOCKED** #13 John O'Hara's Butterfield 8

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#124 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 10) **PREVIEW**

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Heavy Bonus: Ben Lerner Gives an Interview...

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#123 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 9)

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#122 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 8) **PREVIEW**

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**UNLOCKED** #61 Fierce and Dangerous Love w/ Steven Powell

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#121 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 7)

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#120 Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2012 w/ Damon Moore (part 5)

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#119 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 6) **PREVIEW**

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**UNLOCKED** #52 Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation w/ Sam Fakahany

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#118 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 5)

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#117 Holes in the Earth w/ Brad Kelly

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#116 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 4) **PREVIEW**

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#115 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 3)

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#114 Feminine Goodness w/ Audrey Lee

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#113 Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2012 w/ Damon Moore (part 4) **PREVIEW**

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#112 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 2) **PREVIEW**

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#111 John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire w/ Erik **PREVIEW**

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**UNLOCKED** Heavy Bored Christmas Special 2023

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#110 Olympic Gold w/ Joe Battaglia

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#109 The Last American Sitcom: Modern Family w/ Erik (part 1)

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#108 AI Ethics w/ Mark Peres

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#107 Occult Revival w/ Brad Kelly

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#106 Dark Academia Fantasies w/ Heather Colley

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#105 Cutting Through Cataclysms w/ Stephanie Yue Duhem

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#104 Moving to the City w/ Maxine Rosaler

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#103 American Swamp: Aaron Burr & Donald Trump w/ Dennis A. Brennan

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#102 John Irving's The Cider House Rules w/ Erik

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#101 Writing While Underage w/ Heather Ogden

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#100 Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2012 w/ Damon Moore (part 3)

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#99 Bites of Flesh w/ Aaron Barry (aka Jasper Ceylon)

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#98 Doing It for the Enjoyment w/ Claire Isenthal

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#97 John Irving's The World According to Garp w/ Erik (part 2) **PREVIEW**

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#96 John Irving's The World According to Garp w/ Erik (part 1) **PREVIEW**

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#95 Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2012 w/ Damon Moore (part 2) **PREVIEW**

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#94 Mysterious Fiction w/ Veronica Leigh

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#93 John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany w/ Erik

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#92 Tragic Comedies w/ Leslie Rasmussen

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#91 Prep School Boys w/ Thomas Cullen

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#90 Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2012 w/ Damon Moore (part 1)

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#89 Projecting the Universe w/ A.O. Wagner

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#88 Eroding Masculinity w/ Gary E Smith

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#87 Monitoring the Dream Situation w/ Ron Richard

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#86 In the Fires of Joy w/ Tara Heaton

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Heavy Bonus: Ghost Craft w/ Meg Hamand (preview)

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#85 Midwestern Romanticism w/ Meg Hamand

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#84 Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain w/ Maggie Zhu

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#83 The Great Poetry Hoax w/ Jasper Ceylon

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#82 Tom Clancy's Without Remorse w/ James Gregory

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Heavy Bonus: Dream Situations w/ Josh Mendoza (preview)

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#81 Sitting in the Sci-fi Section w/ Josh Mendoza

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Heavy Bonus: Dogs vs Cats w/ Paris Heart (preview)

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#80 Making Love Vibes w/ Paris Heart

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#79 George Oppen: New Collected Poems w/ Damon Moore

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Heavy Bonus: White Lies, Faith, and Indie Publishing w/ Becky Bell (preview)

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#78 Telling Fibs w/ Becky Bell

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#77 Sleep Paralysis w/ Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown

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JerkShop #10 | Writing Workshop Stories

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#76 Killing a Bull Moose w/ Michael Fedor

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Christmas Special 2024: It's A Jimmy Stewart Christmas w/ Erik

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Heavy Bonus: Collaborative Art w/ Sasha Saidman (preview)

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#75 Adopting Imagination w/ Sasha Saidman

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Heavy Bonus: Football Girl w/ Amy Daughters (preview)

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#74 Funny Girl w/ Amy Daughters

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Heavy Bonus: Building Schools w/ Doug Villhard (preview)

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#73 The Business of Fiction w/ Doug Villhard (preview)

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JerkShop #9 w/ Stephen Harrison (preview)

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#72 Editing the Internet w/ Stephen Harrison

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#71 Ethical Arson w/ Nick Flynn

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#70 Parenthood Poems (preview)

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#69 Book Branding w/ James R. Gregory

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#68 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet w/ Brendan

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#67 Smiling Crooked w/ Jared Klickstein

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#66 Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence w/ Yeerk

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#65 Fictional Transplants w/ David Weill

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#64 Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons

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#63 Robin Cook's Chromosome 6 w/ Rare Candy

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#62 Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die w/ The Nani State

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#61 Fierce and Dangerous Love w/ Steven Powell

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Heavy Bonus: No One Buys Books (preview)

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#60 Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems w/ Sarah Fletcher (part 1)

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#59 Sharon Olds' Odes

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Heavy Bonus: Jan-March 2024 Reading Roundup (preview)

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Heavy Movies: True Detective 1-4 (part 2)

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Heavy Movies: True Detective 1-4 (part 1)

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#58 Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities (preview)

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JerkShop #8 KDP and Self-Publishing w/ Matt Wall (preview)

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#57 Charles Bukowski's The Pleasures of the Damned w/ Matt Wall

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*UNLOCKED* Louise Bogan's The Blue Estuaries

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JerkShop #7 w/ Sarah Fletcher (preview)

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#56 Berryman Posting w/ Sarah Fletcher

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Heavy Movies: The Sound of Hysteria (preview)

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#55 poetry episode? (preview)

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Heavy Bonus Nov/Dec 2023 Reading Roundup (preview)

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#54 Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter w/ Melly

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Heavy Bored Christmas Special (preview)

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#53 Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind

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JerkShop #6 w/ Sam Fakahany | Writing Workshop Stories

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#52 Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation w/ Sam Fakahany

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Heavy Bonus #7 October 2023 Reading Roundup (preview)

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#51 Frank Bidart's Star Dust (preview)

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JerkShop #5 w/ Valerie Lute | Writing Workshop Stories

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#50 Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms w/ Valerie Lute

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Heavy Bonus #6 Horror Movie Round Up October 2023 (preview)

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#49 Mary Oliver's House of Light

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Heavy Bonus #5 Listener Emails 10/14/2023 (preview)

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#48 Melancholic America w/ Caleb Caudell

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JerkShop #4 w/ Erik | Writing Workshop Stories

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#47 Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe w/ Erik

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Heavy Bonus #3 Listener Emails (preview)

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#46 Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris

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Heavy Bonus #2 August 2023 Reading Roundup (preview)

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#45 Ian Fleming's Casino Royale w/ The Nani State

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JerkShop #3 w/ Matt Wall | Writing Workshop Stories

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#44 Poetic Anarchy w/ Matt Wall (preview)

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JerkShop #2 w/ Cassandra | Writing Workshop Stories

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#43 Richard Siken's Crush w/ Cassandra

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#42 Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain (preview)

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#41 Charles Simic's Scribbled in the Dark

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#40 Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing

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*UNLOCKED* #31 William Faulkner's As I lay Dying

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JerkShop #1 | Writing Workshop Stories

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#39 Gary Snyder's Turtle Island

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#38 Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

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#37 Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems (part 4)

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#36 Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems (part 3)

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#35 Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems (part 2)

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#34 Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems (part 1)

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#33 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

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#32 Olena Kalytiak Davis And Her Soul Out of Nothing

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#31 William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (preview)

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#30 Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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#29 Artistic Visions w/ Lee Matalone

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#28 Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

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#27 Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems

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#26 Zoje Stage's Baby Teeth

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#25 Carl Phillips Coin of the Realm

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#24 Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Heavy Bonus #1 Listener Q&A 09/29/22 (free sample)

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#23 Nick Flynn's The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands

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#22 James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

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#21 Heather Christle's The Trees, The Trees

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#20 Herman Melville's Moby Dick

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*UNLOCKED* #10 Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry

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#19 Jonathan Culler's Theory of the Lyric

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#18 Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn

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#17 Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse

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#16 Stephenie Meyer's New Moon

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#15 Stephenie Meyer's Twilight

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#14 The Essential W. S. Merwin

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#13 John O'Hara's BUtterfield 8 (free sample)

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#12 Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

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#11 Iceberg Slim's Pimp (free sample)

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#10 Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry (free sample)

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#9 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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#8 Louise Bogan's The Blue Estuaries (free sample)

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#7 Joy Williams' The Quick and the Dead

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#6 The Complete John Keats

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#5 Stephen King's The Shining

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#4 Brigit Pegeen Kelly's The Orchard

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#3 Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

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#2 Harold Bloom's The Art of Reading Poetry

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#1 Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

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