Library of America, October 2021. Hardcover. Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, July 2021. Paper Back. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry..... More

Oxford University Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and..... More

Duke University Press Books, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the..... More

PAJ Publications, July 2001. First Trade. Trade Paperback. This is the definitive text on the radical contributions of Futurism in theatre, dance, radio, cinema, music, and scenography. It includes thirteen manifestos (such as The Art of Noise, The Futurist Synthetic Theatre) by Marinetti, Prampolini and Russolo, and forty-eight performance texts..... More

Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1982. Trade Paperback. The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis has never been one of equals. Traditionally (particularly in American tradition), literature has been relegated to the position of foil for its more abstract counterpart - a mere body of language to be explained through the..... More

Octagon Pr, June 1991. Hardcover. This volume offers a collection of Middle Eastern stories which reveal the wealth of traffic between the East and the West. For example, excerpts from Western travellers' tales are contrasted with comments by the East on the West - often with hilarious results. Two very..... More

Algonquin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In this ninth volume of "New Stories from the South, " you'll find characters you wish you knew, along with others you'll be glad you don't: a boy who wears his mother's shoes as his father lies dying, a young mother dying of cancer..... More

Liveright, October 2021. Hardcover. "When you look over your own library, who do you see?" Since founding the beloved Well-Read Black Girl book club in 2015, Glory Edim has emerged as a literary tastemaker for a new generation. Continuing her life's work to brighten and enrich American reading lives through..... More

Feral House, October 2004. Hardcover. "What most distinguished these paperbacks wasn't their narratives but their frequently amazing covers, swashes of erotic eye-candy that, as surely as a Warhol soupcan, now define an era. And so the emphasis in this first-rate celebration is on the covers, with hundreds reproduced in what..... More

New York Signet 1961. October 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. Movie tie-in edition with Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page on the cover. Black & white stills from the film in photo insert. Cover has a couple of creases and a sticker removal scar at top corner of front cover, below the..... More

Random House Trade, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming. This Is Not Chick Lit is..... More