Blair&#039;s Reviews

Wit to match the Brits/
all-American style/
Ms. Parker writes fire.

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Blair

The Portable Dorothy Parker: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)

By Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade (Introduction by), Seth (Illustrator)

$24.00

ISBN: 9780143039532

Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days

Published: Penguin Classics - March 28th, 2006

The Graduate by Charles Webb

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Simon&Schuster

Mrs. Robinson/

a scandalized SoCal town/

disaffection reigns.

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The Graduate (Paperback)

By Charles Webb

$17.99

ISBN: 9780743456456

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Published: Washington Square Press - April 2nd, 2002

Look At Me by Jennifer Egan

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RandomHouse

Model's face burns off/
eighty screws can't fix her life/
but coming home might.

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Blair

Look at Me: A Novel (Paperback)

By Jennifer Egan

$19.00

ISBN: 9780385721356

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Anchor - October 8th, 2002

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Nonfiction from the 2014 Summer Newsletter

Race, class, sex and guilt/

a liberal college town/

Middlemarch re-vamped.

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Blair

On Beauty: A Novel (Paperback)

By Zadie Smith

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143037743

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Published: Penguin Books - August 29th, 2006

The Faraway Nearby

Rebecca Solnit’s writing is so effortlessly loose and lovely that she could make one want to read about almost any subject. This book, a meditation on the way stories can tangle together, offers up reflections on her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease, Iceland, and Frankenstein. But the real meaning can be found in the way Solnit gracefully connects all these seemingly disparate entities.

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The Faraway Nearby (Paperback)

By Rebecca Solnit

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143125495

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Published: Penguin Books - April 29th, 2014

Z by Therese Anne Fowler

Spring Reading, 2014

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One can only guess as to how many talented women remain forever anonymous due to the cruel nature of history. Zelda Fitzgerald, at least, is not one of those women, though she is often overshadowed by her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel gives a new voice to the witty, troubled writer who was so much more than her husband’s muse. Z is a fun reimagined romp through the literary world of the Jazz Age.

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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (Paperback)

By Therese Anne Fowler

$17.99

ISBN: 9781250028662

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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - March 4th, 2014

The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan

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Much is being written right now about the dangers and potential of media and technology, but this timeless collage of trippy images and quotes from famous media theorist Marshall McLuhan is really the definitive book on the subject. On top of that, it manages to do what so many professors fail at--making theory fun.

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The Medium Is the Massage (Paperback)

By Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (Other)

$13.95

ISBN: 9781584230700

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Published: Gingko Press - August 1st, 2001

I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

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Full of hilarious personal tales about bosses from hell, an embarrassing drawer full of toy ponies, and killing off middle school math teachers one by one on computer game The Oregon Trail, these essays are perfect reading material for fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey, and Nora Ephron.

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I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Paperback)

By Sloane Crosley

$17.00

ISBN: 9781594483066

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Published: Riverhead Books - April 1st, 2008

The White Album by Joan Didion