Ancient Evenings
N/A, March 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition; black cloth with gold & red lettering & design. Signed by Mailer on front (orange) end page. More
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The Golden House
Random House, September 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR... More
Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews
Chicago Review Press, July 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. John Coltrane grew up "under the spell," as he put it, of Charlie Parker. But he needed to create a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and risky. Nevertheless... More
Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis (Revised and Expanded)
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2000. Paper Back. This new edition, revised and expanded to discuss all of Kubrick's films including Eyes Wide Shut again received the approval of the reclusive director, who before his death allowed the use of illustrations taken directly from his films' frames. The result... More
The Timeless Way of Building
Oxford University Press, July 1979. Cloth. The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that... More
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
Liveright, March 2014. First Thus. Hardcover. Although Soren Kierkegaard's death in the fall of 1855 foreshadowed a lasting split between conservative Christians and young contemporaries who saw him as a revolutionary thinker, it was not until the turn of the twentieth century--and beyond the borders of his native Denmark--that his... More
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Belknap Press, April 2014. Hardcover. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find... More
At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis
Harper Perennial, May 2008. Trade Paperback. At the Center of the Storm is a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence organization in the world during the most challenging times in recent history. Based on his unparalleled access to both the highest echelons of government and... More
The Art Forger: A Novel
Algonquin Books, May 2013. Trade Paperback. Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--still the largest unsolved art theft in history--one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain... More
The Imperfectionists: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
Dial Press Trade Paperback, January 2011. Trade Paperback. From the author of The Italian Teacher, this acclaimed debut novel set in Rome follows the topsy-turvy lives of the denizens of an English language newspaper. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times... More
Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah
Verso, August 2007. Trade Paperback. In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the "Party of God," burst into the spotlight of the Western media -- cast, almost inevitably, as an even more dangerous incarnation of Osama bin... More
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Anchor, October 2011. Trade Paperback. In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he... More
The Trial of Socrates (book club)
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
The Shi'is of Iraq
Princeton University Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to... More
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Tarcher, December 2007. Trade Paperback. In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare... More
Steppenwolf
Henry Holt & Company, June 1990. Trade Paperback. "Steppenwolf" is the profoundly memorable and affecting story of Harry Heller which embodies one of Hesse's most personally felt themes -- the wrenching conflict between the needs of the flesh and of the spirit. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946... More
Story of the Eye
City Lights Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds... More
Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition (Vintage International)
Vintage, December 1997. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, this striking novel, set in Victorian England and Australia but told with a contemporary perspective, depicts the fatal and unrequited love shared by two remarkable misfits. More
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Atria Books, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! In this "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves... More
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
William Morrow Paperbacks, October 2015. Trade Paperback. Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things--which includes a never-before published American Gods story, "Black Dog," written exclusively... More
The Liberal Tradition in America
Harvest, July 1991. Trade Paperback. Hartz's influential interpretation of american political thought since the Revolution. He contends that americanca gave rise to a new concept of a liberal society, a "liberal tradition" that has been central to our experience of events both at home and abroad. New Introduction by Tom... More
Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World
Simon & Schuster, April 2001. Trade Paperback. A wickedly funny collection of personal essays from popular NPR personality Sarah Vowell. Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice -- caustic and sympathetic, insightful and double-edged -- that has attracted a loyal following... More
Pigs in Heaven
Harper Perennial, June 1994. Trade Paperback. A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, "Pigs in Heaven" continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in "The Bean Trees" More
The Whore's Child: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Vintage, July 2003. Trade Paperback. To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles... More
Subtly Worded (Pushkin Collection)
Pushkin Press, December 2014. Trade Paperback. A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the... More
