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The best American sports writing 2006
Gritos
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Voices for the land II
This is how
Book of Beginnings and Endings
Under Western Eyes
The best American essays 2000
The encyclopedia of trouble and spaciousness
For the time being
Fraud
The writings of Henry David Thoreau
After Henry
Barrel Fever
The autocrat of the breakfast-table
Gardner's whys & wherefores
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Who is Mark Twain?
The best American nonrequired reading, 2003
Take the cannoli
My study windows
High tide in Tucson
Discontent and its civilizations
Styles of Radical Will
Letter to a future lover
The best American nonrequired reading 2013
In brief
Nature
Stranger Than Fiction
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