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13.

Abominations : selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction

Shriver, Lionel, author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Book

Call Number

828 SHR

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SD_ILS:656729

14.

Still no word from you : notes in the margin

Orner, Peter, author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Book

Call Number

814.6 ORN

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SD_ILS:658095

15.

A place in the world : finding the meaning of home

Mayes, Frances, author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Book

Call Number

813.54 MAY

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SD_ILS:656324

16.

Maybe it's me : on being the wrong kind of woman

Pollack, Eileen, 1956- author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Book

Call Number

814.6 POL

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SD_ILS:646019

17.

Black folk could fly : selected writings

Kenan, Randall, author.

Publication Date

2022

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Book

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813.54 KEN

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SD_ILS:656295

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Fire season : selected essays 1984-2021

Indiana, Gary, author.

Publication Date

2021

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814.54 IND

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SD_ILS:673062

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Let me tell you what I mean [large print]

Didion, Joan, author.

Publication Date

2021

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814.54 DID

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SD_ILS:594126

20.

The golden age of the American essay : 1945-1970

Lopate, Phillip, 1943- editor.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

814 GOL

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SD_ILS:618194

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Seeing differently : The Phillips collects for a new century

Smithgall, Elsa, editor.

Publication Date

2021

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700.411 SEE

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SD_ILS:607998

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Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays

Ellis, Helen, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

814.54 ELL

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SD_ILS:610184

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These precious days [large print] : essays

Patchett, Ann, author.

Publication Date

2021

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Book

Call Number

814.54 PAT

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SD_ILS:636059

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The long slide : thirty years in American journalism

Carlson, Tucker, author.

Publication Date

2021

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Book

Call Number

302.230973 CAR

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Didion, Joan.

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Kenan, Randall.

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Roth, Philip.

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Mason, David, 1954- author.

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Adler, Renata.

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Als, Hilton, author of foreword.

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Anderson, Laurie, 1947- artist, author.

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Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988, artist.

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Bass, Rick, 1958- author.

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Baumgartner, Karen, author of essay.

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Bell, Madison Smartt, editor.

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Bird, Andrew, 1973-

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Bowen, Kevin, 1947- editor.

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Buchhart, Dieter, 1971- organizer, editor, author.

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Buckley, Christopher, 1952-

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Carlson, Tucker, author.

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Carroll, Jonathan, 1949- author.

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Claerbaut, A. Alyce, editor.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Donald Trump is shocking, vulgar, and right.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Eat, memory.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Eugenics, American style.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. League of extraordinary gentlemen.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Mr. Smith goes third party.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. New Democrat.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Pimp my ride.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Tucker Carlson's diary.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. Unflappables.

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Container of (work) : Carlson, Tucker. When the fun stopped.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Art of losing friends and alienateing people.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Fine bromance.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Game of crones.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Men explain the wire to me.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- My father's bar.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Natural selection.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Revered ware.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Swing, interrupted.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Thirty-first stocking.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Tweety bird.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Waco kid.

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Container of (work) : Lippman, Laura, 1959- Whole 60.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- All of us, we are all Arameans.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Didn't anyone tell you.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Friendly book of facts for boys and girls.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Hallucinations.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- HoJo's.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- House of the world.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- How sweet the sound.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- I tried to raise a Jew and he turned out a communist.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Jewish Shah.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Maybe it's me.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- One a day.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Pigeons.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Ranch house.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Righteous gentile.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Thin air.

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Container of (work) : Pollack, Eileen, 1956- Young friends pleasure and benefit society.

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Currid, Brian, translator.

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Delany, Samuel R.

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Didion, Joan. Book of common prayer.

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Didion, Joan. Play it as it lays.

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Didion, Joan. Run, river.

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Didion, Joan. Slouching towards Bethehem.

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Didion, Joan. White album.

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Dukin, Kerry, narrator.

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Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995, author.

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Ellis, Helen, author.

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Ephron, Delia.

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Ephron, Nora.

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Evans, Richard Paul, author, narrator.

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Franzen, Jonathan, author.

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Glück, Louise, 1943- author.

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Hannah-Jones, Nikole, foreword.

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Hatje Cantz Verlag, publisher.

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Houston, Pam, author.

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Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, author.

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Indiana, Gary, author.

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Jacob, Mary Jane, author of added commentary.

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Jones, Tayari, author of introduction.

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Kenan, Randall, author.

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Kenan, Randall.

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Kirsch, Adam, 1976-

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Kosinski, Dorothy M., writer of preface and introductory essay.

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LaSalle, Peter, author.

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Lennon, Michael, editor.

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Lippman, Laura, 1959- author.

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Lipsyte, Sam, 1968- writer of introduction.

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Lopate, Phillip, 1943- editor.

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Lorentzen, Christian, writer of introduction.

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Lurie, Alison, author.

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Mailer, John Buffalo, editor.

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Mailer, Norman, author.

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Malcolm, Janet, author.

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Maupin, Gregory, narrator.

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Mayes, Frances, author.

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McPhee, John, 1931-

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McPhee, John, 1931- Airplane that crashed in the woods.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Bridges of Christian men.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Extremadura.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Guilt of the U.S. male.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Hitler youth.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Moons of Methuselah.

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McPhee, John, 1931- On the campus.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Thornton Wilder at the century.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Trujillo.

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McPhee, John, 1931- Zoom laude.

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McPhee, John, 1931- author.

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Messud, Claire, 1966- author.

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Nahmad Contemporary (Gallery : New York, N.Y.), host institution.

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Nahmad, Joseph, editor.

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Notaro, Laurie, author.

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O'Brien, Glenn.

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Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019, author.

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Orlean, Susan, writer of introduction.

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Orner, Peter, author.

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Padon, Thomas, author of preface.

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Paglia, Camille, 1947- author.

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Paley, Grace, author.

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Paley, Nora, editor.

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Patchett, Ann, author, narrator.

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Patchett, Ann. Cover stories.

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Patchett, Ann. Eudora Welty, an introduction.

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Patchett, Ann. First Thanksgiving.

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Patchett, Ann. Flight plan.

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Patchett, Ann. How knitting saved my life. Twice.

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Patchett, Ann. How to practice.

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Patchett, Ann. Moment nothing changed.

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Patchett, Ann. My year of no shopping.

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Patchett, Ann. Nightstand.

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Patchett, Ann. Paper ticket is good for one year.

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Patchett, Ann. Paris tattoo.

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Patchett, Ann. Reading Kate DiCamillo.

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Patchett, Ann. Sisters.

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Patchett, Ann. Talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities.

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Patchett, Ann. Tavia.

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Patchett, Ann. There are no children here.

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Patchett, Ann. These precious days.

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Patchett, Ann. Three fathers.

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Patchett, Ann. To the doghouse.

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Patchett, Ann. Two more things I want to say about my father.

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Patchett, Ann. What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death.

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Patchett, Ann. Worthless servant.

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Petkoff, Robert, narrator.

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Phillips Collection, host institution, owner.

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Pollack, Eileen, 1956- author.

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Ratliff, Evan, editor.

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Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

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Rieff, David, editor.

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Robertson, Eric D., (Specialist on African art), author.

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Ross, Lillian, 1918-2017 author.

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Roth, Philip, author.

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Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- writer of foreword.

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Saunders, George, 1958- writer of introductory text.

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Schlesinger, David, 1984- editor.

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Shriver, Lionel, author.

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Smithgall, Elsa, editor.

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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, author.

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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Against interpretation, and other essays.

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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Illness as metaphor.

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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. On photography.

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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Styles of radical will.

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Stackhouse, Christopher, author.

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Stahl, Levi.

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Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, author.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Alone again, naturally.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Gay life, gay death.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Here comes the groom.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- My America.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Politics of homosexuality.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Princess bride.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Quilt.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Taken unseriously.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- Two faces of Bensonhurst.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- When plagues end.

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Sullivan, Andrew, 1963- author.

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Theroux, Paul, author.

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Ulin, David L., editor.

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Westlake, Donald E.

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Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009, artist.

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