19th Century American Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
Fantasia, 1976. Soft Cover. Quarto No text on spine. More
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
Library of America, October 2020. Hardcover. A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets..... More
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
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Akashic Books, August 2017. Trade Paperback. Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018's Books All Georgians Should Read! Kenji Jasper's "A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House" nominated for a 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story! "Atlanta has its share, maybe more..... More
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
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write..... More
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. "To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had..... More
New Directions, November 2019. Paper Back. Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and..... More
Fantagraphics, June 2009. Hardcover. In 1907, at the tender age of 22, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Flo Ziegfeld dressed his dancers as "Brinkley Girls," in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three popular songs were written..... More
McSweeneys, June 2007. Trade Paperback. This book is perfect for people who are funny and for those who aren't funny (thus it is marketable to 100 percent of the population). As we all know, true creativity comes from simple formulas and the memorization of data. This new bible makes the..... More
Little, Brown and Company, April 2020. Hardcover. This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We..... More
University Press of Mississippi, October 1987. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
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
Harry N. Abrams, April 2018. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to..... More
Mondadori, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Very minor shel wear on the cover. More
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Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, August 1983. Trade Paperback. More
University Alabama Press, January 2017. Hardcover. Eugene O'Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright's life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O'Neill. Known principally as the author of some..... More
Harcourt Trade Publishers, April 1992. Trade Paperback. The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son relationships; with works by eighty poets, including Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes. More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the..... More
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
Pantheon, January 1943. First American. Hardcover. Jacket chipped. Lovely woodcuts throughout by Frans Masereel. More
The Franklin Library, January 1978. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Marbled endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. More
Yale University Press, July 1987. Trade Paperback. More
The Franklin Library, January 1981. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Marbled endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. More
Open Court, July 2010. Trade Paperback. Arguably the most important pop-culture import from the East to the West, manga is a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Yet just as much as it is a source of visual splendor and riveting storylines, manga -- the herald of the exotic..... More
La Fabrica, January 2006. Paper Back. Small quarto. More
McSweeney's, August 2003. Leather. Issue 11 features contributions by many of your favorite McSweeney's writers, as well as a chorus of new voices. Contributors include: Tom Bissell, Sean Warren, Samantha Hunt, Robert Olmstead, T.C. Boyle, Â David Means, Doug Dorst, Joyce Carol Oates, A.G. Pasquella, Brent Hoff, Stephen Elliott, Daphne..... More
McSweeney's, January 2005. Hardcover. McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best and largest-circulation literary journals, committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. Unread. Still in shrink warap. More
McSweeneys, June 2005. Novelty. Now in its 16th issue, McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best and largest-circulation literary journals, committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but under-appreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. 3 volume set in a wrap..... More
McSweeney's, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient mists, and possibly some kind of poster, Issue 30 warrants every ounce of attention and..... More
McSweeney's, June 2011. Trade Paperback. Issue 38 is due to be a real beauty, with stories pulled in from all over the world--a grand tour, in prose, of a dozen places you have perhaps neglected to visit, up to now. There is Ariel Dorfman in Paris, with one eye on..... More
McSweeney's, December 2017. Hardcover. Issue 51 features eighteen brand-new stories so compelling that you'll read through the night and far into the next day, until your boss calls and warns you that you're on thin ice, buddy, and better get to the office right the {expletive} now--but we swear it's..... More
McSweeney's Books, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
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N/A, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Foxing; cover wear. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2018. Trade Paperback. The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works. As always, the..... More
Oscar Baradinsky/Alicat Bookshop, January 1947. Stapled Soft Cover. Much wear and several tears to wrapper. Inside pamphlet is in very good+ condition: without markings or tears. More
Soft Skull Press, March 2003. Trade Paperback. On a daily basis police save lives, take lives, and risk their own lives. This is the first collection that allows us to see this: police officers not just as brutalisers or heroes but as complicated human beings in a position that is..... More
Penguin Classics, November 2020. Cloth. The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world A Penguin Classics Hardcover This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods..... More
Penguin Classics, November 2020. Cloth. The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world A Penguin Classics Hardcover This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods..... More
Penguin Classics, July 2020. Paper Back. An essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combination of poetry and prose A Penguin Classic The prose poem has proven one of the most..... More
Grafton, January 0001. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Alyson Books, February 2004. Trade Paperback. Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person. Clint Catalyst ("Cottonmouth Kisses") and Michelle Tea ("The Chelsea Whistle") bring together what can only be described as a dream cast of literature's new avant-garde, sandwiched with a few writers appearing..... More
Harvest Books, October 2007. Paper Back. William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests--for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love--that's thrilling and timeless. Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible--inconceivable, even--to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2005. Trade Paperback. An annual collection of more than sixty of the prior year's top selected short stories, essays, and poems as published in literary magazines and small presses, 'The Pushcart Prize 2006' is complemented by an index to the series and a listing..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1989. Trade Paperback. Well worn; dog earred from top right corner. Complete number line. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1990. Trade Paperback. Mild shelfwear. Complete number line. More
Routledge, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture. Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges..... More
Tin House Books, September 2020. Paper Back. With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The..... More
The Easton Press, 1976. Leather. Beautiful leather binding with gold gilt lettering and designs. Silk endpapers. Only flaw is a shadow on the front pastedown endpaper where an ex-libris plate used to be. More
Modern Library, November 1951. Hardcover. More
Riverhead Trade, February 2001. Trade Paperback. Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'Farrell Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both sides of the Atlantic, Speaking with the Angel is a fresh and funny collection..... More
Currency Press Pty Ltd, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Asylum seekers and refugees are at the vanguard of some of today's most pressing international challenges, their perilous journeys mapping the borderlines of a world in which the right to enter and remain in safe and secure living spaces is zealously guarded..... More
Dark Horse, February 2014. Paper Back. Unable to kill the Master--the powerful vampire behind the epidemic infesting New York City, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather begins to self-destruct as battle lines are drawn. It's now up to a handful of humans, an ailing pawnbroker, an exterminator, a scientist, a gangbanger, and an..... More
Poetry@tech, September 2016. Paper Back. More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z--Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder--with work in between by Jericho..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z--Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder--with work in between by Jericho..... More
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
University of Michigan Press, December 1997. Trade Paperback. In the Fall of 1992, Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, won England's prestigious Evening Standard award as the season's Best Play. By the Spring of 1993, Millennium had come to Broadway and won its highest honor..... More
Random House Inc. Mass Market PaperBack. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2020. Paper Back. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who..... More
McSweeney's, February 2008. Hardcover. On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Brooklyn leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the largest borough in New York City, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include writers, fashion designers, comedians, shop owners, chefs, club owners, literary agents and barbers..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, December 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Charleston leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the South Carolina city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include author Pat Conroy, chef Sean Brock, mayor Joe Riley, novelist Josephine Humphreys, artist Becca Barnet, anthropologist Ade..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2017. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Los Angeles leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Jedediah Jenkins, chef Nancy Silverton, punk musician Alice Bag, surf legend Dick Metz, casting executive Jennifer..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the one-of-a-kind Louisiana city, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include journalists, chefs, jazz musicians, shop owners, historic preservationists, fishermen, politicians and artisans, among others. Topics..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2013. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: San Francisco leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Chris Colin, baker Chad Robertson, artist Zio Zeigler, novelist Julie Orringer, winemaker Andrew Mariani, and poet..... More
Fantagraphics Books Inc., 1995. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Clean & sound. More
Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Limited edition. More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. More
University of Washington Press, June 1961. Cloth. Blue cloth with brown lettering. Price clipped dust jacket. Clean & sound. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
W. W. Norton, March 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. David Kalstone says, "The poems are, by and large, tough or wry meditations, striking out into strange landscapes, dreams or nightmares, which are seen with entire clarity, no blurring, as if this were the only way the mind could be unwound on..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1995. Trade Paperback. Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems--following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage--that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked..... More
Arden, November 1981. Trade Paperback. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Much Ado About Nothing provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes..... More
Liverpool University Press, March 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with..... More
Twayne Publishers, January 1966. Hardcover. Maroon fabric covered boards stamped with gold lettering on spine & front panel. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Red end pages. Some underlining. More
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
Back Bay Books, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
The Dial Press, January 1954. Hardcover. Oblong octavo in torn/frayed dust jacket. More
Anchor, October 1994. Trade Paperback. "A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the..... More
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
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
Picador, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller..... More
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
Grove Press, January 2021. Hardcover. Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria though an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton..... More
Top Shelf Productions, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Top Shelf Productions is proud to represent the publications of the dynamic and extremely talented Israeli team, Actus Tragicus. Five outstanding cartoonists (Rutu Modan, Yirmi Pinkus, Mira Friedmann, Batia Kolton, & Itzik Rennert), who pool their talents annually to produce something simply amazing..... More
J&L Books, May 2001. Trade Paperback. J&L Illustrated #1. Fiction by 8 authors. Drawings by 27 artists. The vibrant beauty of this red and green paperback (the edges of the pages are a bright chalky red) will stimulate you to read all of the stories, by writers named Sam Lipsyte..... More
Ballantine Books, June 1997. Trade Paperback. "IRRESISTIBLE!" --The Boston Globe Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for..... More
Anchor, March 2014. Trade Paperback. From the award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun--the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the..... More
Mariner Books, October 2018. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." --George Saunders "Dark and captivating and essential . .... More
Overlook Hardcover, May 2002. First Edition. Cloth. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets. 12mo. (5 inches x...... More