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Irvine Welsh: Skagboys

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Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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Megan Mayhew Bergman: Birds of a Lesser Paradise

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Scott Hutchins: A Working Theory of Love

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Ian Frazier: The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

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Margaret Talbot: The Entertainer

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Marcus Samuelsson: Yes, Chef

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Cassie J. Sneider: More Fine Fine Music

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Sam Sax: Memorized Poems

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Colin Meloy: Under Wildwood

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William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor

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Paul Auster: Winter Journal

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Nate Waggoner: April 3rd 2012

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Diana Salier: Letters from Robots

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D.W. Lichtenberg: Our Generation is One of Moving Back in with Your Mother

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Alli Warren: Chapbook Poems

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Andrea Kneeland: People Who Are Good People

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Molly Ringwald: When It Happens to You

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Cassie J. Sneider: Fine Fine Music

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John Brandon: A Million Heavens

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David Rakoff: Half Empty

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Rob Reid: Year Zero

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Cheryl Strayed: Tiny Beautiful Things

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Karen Thompson Walker: The Age of Miracles

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Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters Remix

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Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

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Sapphire: The Kid

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Rosecrans Baldwin: Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

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Joan Frank: Make It Stay

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Wendy McClure: The Wilder Life

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Jenny Lawson: Let's Pretend This Never Happened

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Delia Ephron: The Lion Is In

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Jim Nisbet: Weight Less Than Shadow

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Eric Erlandson: Letters to Kurt

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Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?

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Miranda Mellis: None of This Is Real

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Doug Mack: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day

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Moshe Kasher: Kasher in the Rye

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Ramona Ausubel: No One Is Here Except All Of Us

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Martha Grover: More from One More for the People

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Matt Ruff: The Mirage

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Ellen Ullman: By Blood

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Trinie Dalton: Baby Geisha

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Krys Lee: Drifting House

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Martha Grover: One More for the People

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Nathan Englander: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

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Blake Nelson: Dream School

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Ryan Boudinot: Blueprints of the Afterlife

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Leigh Stein: The Fallback Plan

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Ellis Avery: The Last Nude

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Tea Obreht: The Tiger's Wife

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Joshua Mohr: Damascus

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Ismet Prcic: Shards

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Anisse Gross: Last Year's Snow

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Peter Orner: Love and Shame and Love

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John Jeremiah Sullivan: Pulphead

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Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries

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Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus

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Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

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Ann Joslin Williams: Down from Cascom Mountain

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Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot

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Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones

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LitCrawl Event Preview: Lisa Brown: Baby, Be Of Use

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Michael David Lukas: The Oracle of Stamboul

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Alice LaPlante: Turn of Mind

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Charles Warnke: I Have A Few Last Words

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Justin Torres: We The Animals

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Lizzy Acker: Monster Party

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Ben Loory: More from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

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Ben Loory: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

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Grace Krilanovich: The Orange Eats Creeps

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S.G. Browne: Fated

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Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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Jesse Ball: The Curfew

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Oscar Hijuelos: Thoughts without Cigarettes

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Francine Prose: My New American Life

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Daniel Orozco: Orientation

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Keetje Kuipers: Beautiful in the Mouth

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Francisco Goldman: Say Her Name

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Chris Adrian: The Great Night

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Michelle Tea: Black Wave

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Sloane Crosley: How Did You Get This Number

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Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

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Blake Butler: There Is No Year

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Gabrielle Hamilton: Blood, Bones and Butter

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Terry Castle: The Professor

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Neil Strauss: Everyone Loves You When You're Dead

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story

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Kristin Kimball: The Dirty Life

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Benjamin Hale: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

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Jasmin Darznik: The Good Daughter

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Wesley Stace: Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

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Mira Bartok: The Memory Palace

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Karen Russell: Swamplandia!

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Colm Toibin: The Empty Family

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Heidi Durrow: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

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David Levithan: The Lover's Dictionary

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Vivek Shraya: God Loves Hair

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Tom Rachman: The Imperfectionists

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Christie Hodgen: Elegies for the Brokenhearted