Scribner, July 2013. Hardcover. From New York Times bestselling author, "one of America's top cultural critics" (Entertainment Weekly), and "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine, comes a new book of all original pieces on villains and villainy. Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he..... More
Harvest/HBJ, October 1969. Paper Back. A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, Shakespeare's Final Period and English Letter Writers. Index. Octavo. Sunned spine. Previous owner's name in ink first inside page. [296 pages]. More
Harvest/HBJ, October 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to Strachey's Literary Essays. Index. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [295 pages]..... More
Trinity University Press, September 2007. Trade Paperback. In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers..... 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
Random House, May 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A "lyrical" (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. "Mesmerizing . . . a master..... More
Black Sparrow Pr, February 1991. Hardcover. Pictorial boards bound in green cloth back with paper cover label. Glassine jacket. Book and jacket have moderate shelf wear. Number 111 on an edition limited to 125 copies numbered and signed by John Sanford. More
University of Toronto Press, 1984. Paper Back. Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discusses significant viewpoints on metaphor held by writers in various disciplines. These include linguistics and semantics, the philosophy of language, literary..... More
Knopf, October 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... More
University of California Press, October 1988. Reprint. Paper Back. A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art..... More
Peregrine Smith Books, May 1988. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous owner's name in ink title page. Mild user wear. [143 pages]. More
Vintage, October 1994. Trade Paperback. In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City--The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In elegant, finely honed prose (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary..... More
