Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1972. Reprint. Cloth. Well worn, stained dustjacket with scotch tape repaired/reinforcements. Flaps not clipped. Verso heavily darkened. hocolate brown cloth covered boards with worn/faded edges. Gold lettering on spine, beginning to fade. Rubbing along spine. Sapphire blue end pages. Previous owner's name & address and a...... More
Penguin Books, February 2013. Trade Paperback. "Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber..... More
Belknap Press, December 1999. Hardcover. To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is..... More
Picador, January 1997. Trade Paperback. This work takes the reader on a literary tour of Russia from the streets of Bulgakov's Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy which can be read as an overview of Russian literature or used as a guide to a trip around Russia. Beginning with..... More
University of Wisconsin Press, February 2020. Paper Back. In this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from..... More
Dey Street Books, June 2022. Paper Back. The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's..... More
University of Washington Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with silver lettering spine edge. Nice map of Dublin end pages. Binding solid, tight at bottom and a bit pulled at top. Bottom spine edge is slightly bruised. No markings in..... More
University Press of Kentucky, November 2021. Paper Back. What does a writer do when he has a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, 1960s hippies, a Dutch..... More
Little, Brown and Company, July 2022. Hardcover. "Hilarious, wrenching, and achingly tender"memoir of one wildly unconventional family that gains new meaning with each newly discovered member (Susan Orlean). What is a "normal family," and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton's magnetic, larger-than-life mother, Debra, yearned to have..... More
Graywolf Press, August 1996. Trade Paperback. When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors. For this provocative launch..... More
McSweeney's Books, April 2012. Trade Paperback. In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the..... More
Harcourt, Brace & World/ Harbinger, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo in worn, creased cover. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Unmarked interiors. [243 pages]. More
St. Martin's Press, June 2022. Hardcover. An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey--from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom--and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle..... More
University of Michigan Press, August 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading..... More
Random House, March 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part--and a woman's struggle to go forward in the face of loss--that "enriches the reader's life with urgency and gratitude" (The Washington Post) "A..... More
Random House, March 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part--and a woman's struggle to go forward in the face of loss--that "enriches the reader's life with urgency and gratitude" (The Washington Post) "A..... More
Vintage, December 2021. Paper Back. America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction. In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a...... More
Seabury Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Modest cover wear and aging; faint pencil notes and marks scattered throughout. More
Simon & Schuster, June 2000. Hardcover. At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring. Some inked underlining in prologue. More
Chelsea House Pub, March 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the French writer. {5' x 9 & 1/2'} Pictorial boards issued without dustjacket. Like new. Tightly bound. Complete number string. [295 pp.]. More
Harvard University Press, February 1989. Hardcover. Discusses the concept of the sacred and the secular in western literature, and agrues that poetry cannot be judged by socially constructed criteria. More
Riverhead Books, October 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today..... More
Cornell University Press, June 1971. Trade Paperback. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive..... More
Plume Books, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Mary Blume brings her insight, humor, and unique perspective to bear on the French in this collection of thirty-three years of International Herald Tribune columns. A trusted insider in an exclusive world, Blume is also the quintessential American in Paris. Francophiles will love her..... More
Da Capo Press, April 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In The Sibling Society, Bly turns to stories as unexpected as Jack and the Beanstalk and the Hindu tale of Ganesha to illustrate and illuminate the troubled soul of our nation itself. What he shows us is a culture where adults remain..... More
