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Reality Check 
by David Brin
Free

The Giving Plague 
by David Brin
Free

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young 
by Kurt Vonnegut 
$0.99

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 
by Eudora Welty 
$1.99

The Stories of Paul Bowles 
by Paul Bowles 
$1.99

Stardust 
by Neil Gaiman 
$1.99

Fire in the Hole: Stories 
by Elmore Leonard 
$1.99

Underworld 
by Don DeLillo 
 $1.99

The Tree 
by John Fowles 
$1.99

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 
by Susan Cain 
$2.99

If on a winter's night a traveler 
by Italo Calvino 
$2.99

A Passage to India 
E.M. Forster 
$3.99

Asst. Malcolm Gladwell 
$3.99

Arc: Volume 1 
$4.99

Ray Bradbury on literary influences

"Eudora Welty... has the remarkable ability to give you atmosphere, character, and motion in a single line. In one line! You must study these things to be a good writer. Welty would have a woman simply come into a room and look around. In one sweep she gave you the feel of the room, the sense of the woman’s character, and the action itself. All in twenty words. And you say, How’d she do that? What adjective? What verb? What noun? How did she select them and put them together? I was an intense student. Sometimes I’d get an old copy of [Thomas] Wolfe and cut out paragraphs and paste them in my story, because I couldn’t do it....  I’d retype whole sections of other people’s novels just to see how it felt coming out. Learn their rhythm. "

-- Ray Bradbury from a Paris Review interview