Verso, February 2001. Hardcover. Many see the meeting between literature and politics as fraught. In this engagement with novels and their authors, Christopher Hitchens takes inspiration from Shelley's description of the poet as an unacknowledged legislator and shows, that while the encounter between writers and those in power is not..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves--and our world today. LONGLISTED..... More
W. W. Norton, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, Cultural Amnesia illuminates, rescues..... More
MTV, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Read the cult-favorite coming-of-age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas and his companions in search of "the choice of life." Its charm lies not in its plot, but rather in its wise and humane look at man's constant search for..... More
Henry Holt and Co., May 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. With the publication of Wormholes, Fowles's legion of readers can feast on another aspect of his literary achievement. While his nonfiction writings are less well known than his novels - in part because their appearance has been scattered in ephemeral periodicals..... More
Vintage, February 2007. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will..... More
Penguin Classics, September 2009. Trade Paperback. The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, June 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket clipped. More
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. "The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement."--Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth "A powerful and moving account of the..... More
Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part of the country that nonetheless remains a world unto itself. More
New Press, The, August 2010. Hardcover. Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles's profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and..... More
Hyperion, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of 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
Penguin Group USA Inc, September 1997. Paper Back. A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of..... More
Vintage, October 1989. Trade Paperback. A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A...... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, October 1998. Trade Paperback. An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, December 1997. Trade Paperback. What does our country sound like? There are approximately 502 million radios in America alone. Radios in cars, in kitchens, in malls, playing in elevators and beauty shops. Sarah Vowell listened to the radio for one year and wrote down her impressions. More
Harper, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett's prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2003. Trade Paperback. From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described "history nerd" Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the..... More
Harper Perennial, December 1989. Trade Paperback. The award-winning writer recalls his youth in this bestselling memoir, which is also a major Warner Brothers film starring Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, and Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Tobias. More
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American--"in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself" (NPR) - CELEBRATING OVER..... More
The Modern Library, February 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of letters by the editor of the New Yorker details the birth of the magazine and its early days. {6&1/2' x 8&1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Previous owner's name inked ffep. Stated, First Edition with this number line '2 4..... More
Tarcher, September 1987. Trade Paperback. The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament.--Philip Toynbee. More
Anchor, October 1995. Trade Paperback. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas..... More
