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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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T I T L E S   O F   U N W R I T T E N E S S A Y S   J O T T E D   D O W N W H I L E   L I V I N G   I N P R A G U E   I N   T H E   9 0 s . BY RACHEL CARPENTER - - - - Older American Dudes and Their Younger Czech Babes American Education: An Oxymoronic Phrase I Stop Drinking Twice, or, Why Does Seltzer Cost More Than Beer Here? The Most Frequently Overheard Complaints of English Speakers The Most Frequently Overheard Banalities of English Speakers "Pulp Fiction" and Its Unfortunate Validating Effect on the American Dudes of Prague The Prevalence of Alcohol Why All These Dudes Should Just Go to Dental School, and Home Cheap Beer Attracts Them, or, College Never Ends I Am Almost Thirty! I Am the Only American Here Who Is Not Annoying! The Unspoken Contract: You Pretend I Have a Real and Exciting Job, and I'll Pretend You Do, Too My Sister Is Having a Baby! My Visiting Friend Is Not Impressed by My Broken Czech: You Have, He Says, Been Living Here for Three Years American Dudes Wanting It Both Ways and Getting It, or, A 90s Man Leads a 50s Life My Boyfriend Stops Bathing Thrown from a Horse Named Izak, I Break My Collarbone The American Writer Dude's Bookshelf, or, Why the Complete Works of Kafka but no Woolf? The Expat in His Subletted Apartment: His Neighbors Hate Him, but He Thinks This Builds Character With a Healing Collarbone, and under the Influence of Painkillers, I Begin Dating Someone I Shouldn't The Gap Has Arrived! The Gap Is Prohibitively Expensive! I Drop My Film off at the Drugstore, and the Next Week It Closes Because of Technical Problems and Never Reopens Am I Becoming Bitter?   MORE LISTS

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