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Words are how Arcade make her living—brilliant torrents of words that rush and flow and settle into illuminating inquisitions on the world in which we live. “I’m a truth-teller, which is problematic in a world of hypocrisy,” she has said. In addition to appearing in Warhol’s 1971 film, Women in Revolt, her stage works, including Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! and Bad Reputation, have come to be seen as landmarks of New York’s avant-garde. Below are Penny Arcade’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. See the full list...

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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince will be on many peoples best loved book lists. I first read this at 14 and the anarchic wisdom of this book with it's delicate philosophy of the outsider influenced my own thinking about the pitfalls of trading childhood wonder for adulthood,but most of all it taught me about accepting other's differences and the fragile nature of relationship. "That which is essential is invisible to the eye"

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The Prophet

Kahil Gibran

This book will be on many peoples best loved book lists. I read this at 14 and it gave me my first overview of the elements of life, love and society. This book contains ruiminations if not answers on what it means to be fully human.

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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence

Adrienne Rich

I discovered this book by the poet Adreienne Rich in the now long gone Feminist Book Store in NY's Greenwich Village when I was 25 years old. The title called out to me and became the basis for how I formed my relationship to my own authenticity and how I have approached relationships with other people for my entire life.
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Alan Hollinghurst
$171.79
The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Edmund White
$168.85
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan
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Sarah Waters
$141.81
The Talented Mr Ripley

Patricia Highsmith
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Justin Vivian Bond
$169.79
Eustace Chisholm And The Works

James Purdy
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Frank Rich
$156.47
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow

John Cheever
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Erica Jong
$173.73
To the End of the Land

David Grossman