Counterpoint LLC, January 2023. Trade Paperback. In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creative process step-by-step, guiding the reader through a practical course in how to begin and end a work of literature, whether fiction or nonfiction, poetry, or prose The distinguished author of..... More
Yale University Press, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1993. Trade Paperback. Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come. More
Vintage, February 2001. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. - From the bestselling author of The Circle. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of..... More
Vintage, September 2015. Trade Paperback. From the Nobel Prize winner--"our greatest contemporary short story writer" (USA Today)--comes a selection of her most accomplished and powerfully affecting short stories from the last two decades. Here is a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994. These stories encompass the fullness..... More
Houghton Mifflin, April 2001. Trade Paperback. More
Ballantine Books, March 2012. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley--from the author of Love and Ruin and When the Stars Go Dark "A beautiful portrait of..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Breathtaking in range, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion and encompasses the entire arc of his career: reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends, meditations on youth and old age, whimsical songs..... More
Harper Perennial, July 2005. Trade Paperback. The acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller. "Not bad for a 24-year-old wordsmith: being compared to J.D. Salinger."-- "The Philadelphia Inquirer" "Hard as it is to write about youth when you're young, Chabon has done it brilliantly."-- "Cosmopolitan" More
Harper Perennial, November 2015. Trade Paperback. THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the..... More
University of California Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of..... More
Gotham, April 2006. Trade Paperback. The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world--period. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She..... More
NYRB Classics, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former..... More
QBP, March 1993. Trade Paperback. Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself, " highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. More
Harper Perennial, August 2011. Trade Paperback. "Jeff Pearlman has captured the swagger of the '86 Mets. You don't have to be a Mets fan to enjoy this book--it's a great read for all baseball enthusiasts." --Philadelphia Daily News Award-winning Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time..... More
Verso, 1985. Trade Paperback. Critically analyzes Benjamin's themes of the Baroque allegory, aura and commodity, and history, tradition, and revolution as well as probing the nature of his revolutionary criticism. More
Verso Books, July 1986. Trade Paperback. These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences. Eagleton's combative intelligence here explores the encounter between Marxism..... More
Verso, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2002. Trade Paperback. The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that..... More
University of Illinois Press, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Red Diapers is the first collection of autobiographical writings by children of American communists. These first-person memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect red diaper baby experiences spanning generations, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and geographical areas. This multi-author account of how it felt..... More
Wiley-Blackwell, February 2011. Trade Paperback. The Future of Christian Theology represents a personal manifesto from one of the world's leading theologians, exploring the ways Christian theology in the twenty-first century has been, and can now continue to be, both creative and wise. Represents an outstanding and engaging account of the..... More
IVP Academic, September 2020. Trade Paperback. Christian Book Award(R) program Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Outreach Resources of the Year Christianity Today Book Award The Gospel Coalition Book Award Emerging Public Intellectual Award Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair..... More
Anchor, January 1995. Trade Paperback. For more than four hundred years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguished from the formal essay by its..... More
HarperOne, August 2013. Trade Paperback. By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are..... More
NYRB Classics, September 2020. Oversize Softcover. A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. Juan Eduardo Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation..... More
