19th Century American Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
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'47 The Magazine of the Year (November)
Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc., November 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Featuring 'Must Marriage Be for Life?,' a cover story by Margaret Mead and contributions by Herman Wouk, Nathaniel Benchley, M.F.K. Fisher, Irwin Shaw and Jean-Paul Sartre. More
America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
University of Texas Press, November 2019. Hardcover. The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States..... More
Andrew Marvell: A Critical Anthology (Penguin critical anthologies)
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
The Beckett Studies Reader
University Press of Florida, April 1993. Hardcover. "A distinguished gathering of Beckett commentary. . . . All of the critics in Gontarski's collection excel."--Melvin J. Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Original, well thought out, and unique contributions to the field of Beckett scholarship."--Brian Finney, University of Southern California For fifteen..... More
Conversations with Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
Conversations with Tom Wolfe (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, April 1990. Trade Paperback. "Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronicler of his times," and "champion of realism" are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is..... More
George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative ...
Random House, October 2008. Hardcover. Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York's East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address..... More
The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939-1961
Yale University Press, July 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
Arcade Publishing, July 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. *2016 Edgar Award Finalist* *2016 Anthony Award Finalist* *2016 Macavity Award Finalist* In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two..... More
My Ideal Bookshelf
Little, Brown and Company, November 2012. Hardcover. The books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books..... More
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
Melville House, July 2020. Paper Back. "Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only..... More
Collected Poems: A. E. Housman
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. More
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Homo Irrealis: Essays
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2021. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that..... More
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next? (Slay in Your Lane)
Fourth Estate, February 2021. Hardcover. An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British..... More
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
Lyons Press, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing--whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence..... More
Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life's Changes
Ballantine Books, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love..... More
Death in the FUNhouse: John Barth and Poststructuralist Aesthetics (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory)
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Harper Perennial, February 2021. Paper Back. There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women "Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart..... More
Bullies
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Victor in the Rubble
Smiling Hippo Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down the terrorist Omar al-Suqqit, who is looking to launch..... More
Reading My Father: A Memoir
Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More
Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
