NYU Press, July 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller..... More
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Indiana University Press, April 1998. First American. Cloth. For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to..... More
Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2022. Hardcover. This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2022. Hardcover. This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to..... More
Wayne State University Press, January 1962. Trade Paperback. This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of..... More
Mariner Books, June 2022. Hardcover. "An intense look at the high-stakes world of a NYC paramedic in the months before and after COVID-19 altered our landscape."--Damon Tweedy, MD, author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine The education of a New York City..... More
Excelsior Editions, September 2009. Hardcover. Once an Engineer is a funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of a dozen years spent growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. The tail end of the sixties finds Joe and his younger brother, Mike, living with their divorced and unemployed father in a...... More
Viking, January 1987. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth spine with silver lettering & grey paper covered boards with sunned edges. Foxing to textblock edges. Unmarked text. Tight binding. Review copy: with (4' x 5&1/2') Viking Review Copy slip laid in. More
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2009. Hardcover. Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe s earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose, this book shows the path that..... More
Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More
Picador, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Short, witty observations by a commentator for National Public Radio's program, All Things Considered, assesses the creeping inanity of American politics and culture and treats the birth of new nations, whales, food, and sundry other topics. Reprint. NYT. More
Random House Inc, September 1993. Hardcover. Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured..... More
Beacon Press, January 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of..... More
Harcourt, December 2002. Paper Back. Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, "Wind, Sand and Stars" is unsurprassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure - through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts..... More
Picador USA, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in The New Yorker and were anthologized in Best American Essays, Antrim explored his intense..... More
NYRB Classics, February 2022. Paper Back. A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah..... More
Penguin Books, August 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The Liffey Press, November 2005. Paper Back. James Joyce's Ulysses, arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, has been the subject of scandal from first publication in 1922. When Bruce Arnold's The Scandal of Ulysses first appeared, twelve years ago, it was described as the sensational life of a...... More
Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. 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
University Of Iowa Press, August 2012. Paper Back. The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Contents Preface Introduction 1. Unpacking Abjection 2. A Cultural History of Abjection 3. Recovering the Sacred: The Abject Body 4. Abjection in the Visual Arts 5. The Formless 6. Abjection and Film 7. Abjection in Literature Concluding Remarks. A few marginal ink markings... More
