University of Georgia Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it..... More
Other Press, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage a union of impossible odds and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is destined to be misunderstood..... More
NYRB Classics, October 2019. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo's..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1982. Hardcover. Faintest trace of jacket wear. More
Columbia University, August 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Politics and the Novel clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's The Red and the Black..... More
Atheneum, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Sligo Press, 2000. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on title page by J. Michael Lennon. Inked marginalia on several pages; else, very good. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2016. Trade Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - From the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features "Family Treasures,"..... More
Penguin Books, May 2015. Trade Paperback. In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson's four children have grown from savages into full-fledged..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1933. Cloth. Maroon cloth without jacket. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. More
Indiana University Press, Bloomington and London. Cloth. Edgeworn dust jacket with tanned spine. Non-authorial inscription. More
Graywolf Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to..... More
NYRB Classics, January 2020. Paper Back. The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, a French radio station commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a...... More
University of Illinois Press, January 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Les Fleurs de Tarbes, ou la terreur dans les lettres, first published as a single volume in 1941, was considered by Jean Paulhan to be the furthest-reaching expression of his thinking about literature and language. It is now recognized as a...... More
Ballantine Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence. Goop Book Club Pick - "Essential . . . We need more voices like Toni Jensen's, more books like..... More
Wiley, August 2010. Trade Paperback. An intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scam Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton..... More
Sternberg Press, September 2019. Paper Back. Collected texts by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston. Jill Johnston--cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon--began her career at the Village Voice as a critic of dance and performance, writing about Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, the activities at Judson Church, Allan Kaprow..... More
Jaded Ibis Press, October 2014. Trade Paperback. "Audacious and fearless, lyrical and brilliant." Joe Milazzo's debut novel Crepuscule W/Nellie explores, via imagined as well as reimagined circumstances and incidents, the relationships between jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, his wife Nellie, and his patron and confidante, the Baroness Pannonica De..... More
St. Martin's Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Picador USA, December 2001. Trade Paperback. With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease." Elegy for Iris" is a story about the ephemeral beauty of..... More
The Cuala Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Number 167 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Printed boards in cloth back. Paper spine label. Glassine wrap. Pages unopened along top. More
Random House, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and edge wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
Harper Perennial, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through..... More
