Picador, July 2022. Paper Back. The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading. Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting -- and frighteningly near-death -- experiences including encounters with..... More
Grove Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny. More
Little, Brown and Company, June 2022. Hardcover. "It's quite a life, Patterson's, and this fizzing, funny, often deeply moving memoir is a perfect way to understand the dizzying world of a best-selling writer." --Daily Mail "Damn near addictive. I loved it . . . that Patterson guy can write!" -Ron..... More
Henry Holt & Co, November 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling, still, a solid copy. More
Atheneum, January 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inked on title page. Gilt-titled blue cloth binding is clean and square. Edges are foxed. Jacket is toned, chipped along edges, with several small closed tears. Brodart protected. More
University of Chicago Press, May 1990. Hardcover. Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, amusical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication. "A..... More
Ballantine Books, May 1994. Trade Paperback. "I woke up with a start at 4:00 one morning and realized that I was very, very pregnant." So begins novelist Aniie Lamott's journal of the birth of her son, Sam, and their first year together. She must face complicated circumstances of heroic proportions..... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Two lightly bumped corners on the boards. Lightly bruised at the ends of the spine. Jacket has minor shelf wear. More
Harper, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in..... More
Metropolitan Books, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the..... More
Indiana University Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry. --Library Journal [Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our..... More
Vintage, July 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Flatiron Books, May 2022. Hardcover. The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the..... More
Biblioasis, April 2022. Paper Back. The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release..... More
Vintage, September 2004. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking In this arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of..... More
New York Review Books, April 2022. Hardcover. With original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait. Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I'm alive and that no..... More
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, one of TIME's Most Influential People of 2022, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of..... More
Knopf, June 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; spine leaning; moderate shelfwear; jacket badly worn and torn. Mylar wrapped to prevent further damage. More
Picador, January 2022. Paper Back. A vivid and elegant memoir of a family's season abroad by the author of the Outline trilogy. When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2009. Trade Paperback. First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual..... More
Dey Street Books, June 2022. Paper Back. The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's..... More
Melville House, June 2022. Paper Back. The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much..... More
Scribner, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Over half a million copies sold! From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture--set in Chuck Klosterman's den and your own--covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2010. Trade Paperback. The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called "On Robustness and Fragility." A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal..... More
