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On Art (Essays) I

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At the Lightning Field

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Betwixt-and-Between

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Social Poetics

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The Blue Girl

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Word Group

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Unbearable Splendor

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The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

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HOMES

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Whorled

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A Robber in the House

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Relational Ethics and Epics

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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard

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The Architecture of Language

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The History of the Future: American Essays

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Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong

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Girl Reel

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Hyper

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Camanchaca

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Gold Cure

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Sansei and Sensibility

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THRESHOLES

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The Breaks

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A Collapse of Horses

Open Letter

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A Complex Sentence

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Ada

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The Intangibles

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Cant Be Wrong

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The Meat and Spirit Plan

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Socialist Realism

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Fog & Car

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Truth, War, and the Dream-Game

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Spring 2022 Subscription

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Spring 2021 Subscription

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A Toast to St Martirià

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Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time

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Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms by Shellye Archambeau

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So What So That

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The Plotinus

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The Aquatics

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The Revolutionaries Try Again

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The Story of My Teeth

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Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay

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darkacre

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Groundglass

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Audition

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The Song of Percival Peacock

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Fall 2023 Subscription

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A Strange Commonplace

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Green Is for World

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The Artist's Library

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The Deep Zoo

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Search History

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The Devil of the Provinces

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Voice-Over

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The Wet Hex

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American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion

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Unlocking the Exits

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On Art (Novels)

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The Malevolent Volume

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Routine Disruptions

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Avalanche

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The Sprawl

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Click and Clone

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Karen Tei Yamashita: The Novels

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How We Speak to One Another

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Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow

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The Remainder

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’66 Frames

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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

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The Way of the Dog

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Working Words

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Screaming Monkeys

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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book

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Things to Make and Break

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Last Days

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Stephen Florida

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I Hotel (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

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Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things