Random House, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer--author of Joe Gould's Secret and Up..... More
Harvard University Press, February 1991. First Edition. Cloth. "The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity, is to an incalculable extent a history of error." So writes Frank Kermode of a history to which..... More
Harper, February 2020. Hardcover. "Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist."--Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner..... More
Distributed Art Pub Inc, September 1997. Trade Paperback. "Air Guitar" is Dave Hickey's "memoir without tears"--a journey through the vernacular cultural landscape of the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Looking back from the vantage-point of his adopted hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, Hickey speculates on..... More
McSweeney's, August 2014. Trade Paperback. "The read of the year." --Junot Díaz White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Women 16 years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender..... More
FSG Originals, August 2013. Trade Paperback. Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays Wayne Koestenbaum has been described as "an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag" (Bidoun). In My 1980s and Other Essays, a...... More
Red Planet, October 2019. Paper Back. The True Performing Of It places the two writers side by side and examines the resultant analogies in their work that spring from this positioning. After a teasing prologue, the book begins by reflecting on the significance of Dylan's remarks on Shakespeare when accepting..... More
Harvest Books, November 1990. Trade Paperback. A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. Wartime Writings recounts some of his aviation exploits. More
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1949. Cloth. 2nd printing in dust jacket darkened at spine & at margins. NOT price clipped. Original English price on flap. Orange cloth with gold lettering. More
Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering. Complete number line. Clean & sound. Brown end pages. More
Grove Press, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dust jacket with darkening to spines, soiling & one dark sticker stain/scar. NOT price clipped with original price of $6.95. Olive green cloth with white lettering. More
Knopf, January 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. A dazzling new collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass's lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work..... More
St Martins Pr Special, October 2003. Trade Paperback. From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry..... 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
Penguin Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Mad Creek Books, February 2019. Trade Paperback. David Shields's The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a...... More
Broadway, May 2003. Hardcover. One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 One of the best books of the year as selected by The Washington..... More
Grand Central Publishing, November 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between..... More
