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  Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)

  by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin

  This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the present,... (more)
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  The Night of the Gun

  A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.

  by David Carr

  Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun , David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times . Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The... (more)