19th Century American Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
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'47 The Magazine of the Year (November)
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
America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
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
Andrew Marvell: A Critical Anthology (Penguin critical anthologies)
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
The Beckett Studies Reader
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
Conversations with Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
Conversations with Tom Wolfe (Literary Conversations Series)
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
George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative ...
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
The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939-1961
Yale University Press, July 1987. Trade Paperback. More
My Ideal Bookshelf
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
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
Penguin Books, December 2019. Paper Back. This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama Defined by waves of idealism and doubt, progress and destruction, the twentieth century and the first decades of..... More
The Social History of Language (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture)
Cambridge University Press, October 1987. Trade Paperback. In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists have been discovering the 'historical dimension' and historians of language the 'social dimension'. They have become interested in language both as..... More
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
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
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923
Pegasus Books, August 2020. Hardcover. From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror writers from 1852-1923. While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the success of her immortal Frankenstein undoubtedly inspired dozens..... More
Collected Poems: A. E. Housman
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. More
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. *2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The..... More
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2018. Paper Back. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clich s around marriage--eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates--leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep..... More
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
Lyons Press, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing--whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence..... More
Death in the FUNhouse: John Barth and Poststructuralist Aesthetics (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory)
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist
Vintage, October 2019. Paper Back. "To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of a century that forgives nothing." In 1957, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus gave a speech entitled "Create Dangerously," effectively a call to..... More
Trillion Year Spree: History of Science Fiction
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
Bullies
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Victor in the Rubble
Smiling Hippo Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down the terrorist Omar al-Suqqit, who is looking to launch..... More
The Primary Colors: Three Essays
Henry Holt & Co, April 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Reading My Father: A Memoir
Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More
