The Art of Paul Verlaine
New York University Press, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
Fiction & Literature
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Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2008. Hardcover. Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch--"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)--has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today. Sure..... More
John Le Carre: The Biography
Harper Paperbacks, November 2016. Trade Paperback. An insightful and highly readable portrait of a writer and a man who has often been as elusive and enigmatic as his fictional heroes." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from..... More
Boswell's Presumptuous Task (American)
Farrar Straus Giroux, August 2001. First American. Hardcover. A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself was regarded..... More
Fortune Smiles: Stories
Random House, August 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The National Book Award-winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master's Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. "MASTERFUL."--The Washington Post "ENTRANCING."--O: The Oprah Magazine "PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE."--The New York Times Throughout these six..... More
Hot Pink
McSweeney's, March 2012. Hardcover. Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds, shaken snow-globes of..... More
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2012. Trade Paperback. The Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world's most mysterious dictatorship. "Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting..... More
Parasites Like Us
Viking, August 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Times are changing in South Dakota. Birds are disappearing. Dogs are turning on mankind. Hogs are no more. Anthropologist Hank Hannah has a hope: that by studying all of the lost civilizations of human history, he may finally come to understand the hearts of..... More
Angelino Heights
Summerfield Publishing d.b.a. New Plains Press, April 2020. Trade Paperback. When Dalton Everest, a naive school teacher with a crackerjack, free-form way of expressing himself, forms a fast friendship with Nathan Lyme, a charmer who's cagey about his employment, everything Dalton knew of his previous life is swiftly upended. Set..... More
Manga and Philosophy: Fullmetal Metaphysician
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
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