W. W. Norton & Company, February 2021. Hardcover. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2012. Trade Paperback. How negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D'Agata was approached by Harper's magazine to write an essay for them, one that was eventually rejected due to disagreements related to its..... More
Pantheon Books, March 2003. Hardcover. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--readers learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artistic dilemmas. More
NYRB Classics, May 2022. Paper Back. Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a...... More
University of Illinois Press, January 1961. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with darkened spine and margins. Mild edgewear. Flap is not clipped. DJ verso tanned/darkened. Rough-hewn half inch tear to jacket top of front fold. Boards covered by cedar colored brown with silver lettering on spine and front panel..... More
Penguin Classics, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Giving a voice to a lost generation, this edition features a new introduction by Brittain's biographer. Now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, and Taron Egerton Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we..... More
University of Georgia Press, February 2008. First Edition. Paper Back. Flannery O'Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O'Connor's fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this..... More
Dey Street Books, March 2022. Hardcover. The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. [A] stunning look..... More
Little, Brown and Company, February 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who..... More
University of Georgia Press, April 2011. Trade Paperback. In Haiti, Papa Legba is the spirit whose permission must be sought to communicate with the spirit world. He stands at and for the crossroads of language, interpretation, and form and is considered to be like the voice of a god. In..... More
One World, March 2021. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE - A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness "Brilliant . . . To read this..... 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
Univ of Chicago Press, June 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Sticker removal scar front cover. Underlining & side notes. [164 pp.]. More
John Hopkins, January 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd printing. Octavo. With slight darkening of spine. Some soiling/stains to cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. A few scattered pencil marginal tick marks and underlined words. [310 pp.]. More
College and University Press, January 1961. Paper Back. Octavo. Sunned spine and margins. Sticker residue front cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. [224 pp.]. More
David R. Godine, Publisher, March 2022. Paper Back. More
Noonday Press, December 1995. Trade Paperback. When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still..... More
East African Educational Publishers, December 1983. Trade Paperback. Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in..... More
N/A, December 1998. Trade Paperback. The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such..... More
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reprint. Paper Back. This book takes a critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights from the viewpoint of those whose job it is to give the work life on stage. From personal experience of over seventy productions, from interviews..... 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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2022. Hardcover. Will Jawando's account of mentorship, service, and healing lays waste to the racist stereotype of the absent Black father. By arguing that Black fathers are not just found in individual families, but are indeed the treasure of entire Black communities, Will makes the..... More
Grove Press, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback. Heavily worn along the edges of spine with bottom one-inch stripped of surface layer of paper. Creased corner of back cover. [120 pages]. 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
Grove / Evergreen, January 1960. First Thus. Paper Back. 12mo with considerable shelf wear. More
