Melville House, July 2020. Paper Back. "Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only..... More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, April 2022. Hardcover. "Addictive...Tasha stands as both a cri de coeur and vibrant testament--the painstaking, brave, generous piecing-together of a wildly difficult puzzle." --The Washington Post In the spirit of Fierce Attachments, Bettyville, and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist..... More
Grosset & Dunlap / The Universal Library, January 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn trade paperback. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [114 pages plus two page list of Universal titles.]. More
Crown, April 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth "From toasts to eulogies, from job interviews to social events, this book will help you with ideas..... More
Penguin Group, July 2013. Trade Paperback. Es'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue..... More
Semiotext(e), April 2022. Paper Back. The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female..... More
Semiotext(e), April 2022. Paper Back. The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female..... More
Semiotext(e), April 2022. Paper Back. The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female..... More
Pantheon Books, November 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In 'From the Briarpatch File--a gathering of erudite, provocative, and iconoclastic essays, reviews, and interviews--Albert Murray approaches contemporary America through its artistic expressions of itself and through the inventiveness of his own thinking and experience. He writes about New York in the 1920s..... More
Harvest Books, April 1984. Trade Paperback. A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with..... More
Dey Street Books, March 2022. Hardcover. The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. [A] stunning look..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, May 1994. Hardcover. In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature's great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, August 1984. Hardcover. Some wear and scuff marks to the dust jacket. More
Cambridge University Press, August 2007. Trade Paperback. This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse..... More
Louisiana State University Press, September 1999. Trade Paperback. This work examines the history of Hollins College, which by the 1950s had set itself up as a school with a significant women's writing programme. It examines the influence of the mentors in the 1960s and the writers themselves, such as Lee..... More
Wave Books, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets..... More
Graywolf Press, September 2021. Hardcover. Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian..... More
Oxford University Press, July 1990. Trade Paperback. From Plautus, Cervantes, and Charles Dickens to Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, and Tom Stoppard, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Arsenic and Old Lace and Woody Allen, this concise and readable book provides a thorough introduction to comic criticism. Nelson argues that there..... More
Clarkson Potter, November 2021. Hardcover. A "delightful" (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the..... More
Northwestern University Press, April 1985. Paper Back. The Post-Modern Aura is Charles Newman's classic and incendiary polemic about the "Post-Modern" attitude in fiction, culture, and sensibility. In it, he challenges the "revolutionary" claims of avant-garde novelists and literary theorists as well as the arguments of neoconservatives, neorealists, and advocates of..... More
Random House, March 2022. Hardcover. An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family--and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves. "A roadmap for all of us who long to understand, at the deepest level, where we come from."--Dani..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 2004. Hardcover. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in England in the first half of the twentieth century was engaged in the bold experiment of refashioning not just their art, but their daily lives. They reinvented the home, challenging and rejecting the smug certainties..... More
Spiegel & Grau, February 2019. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nourishing" (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid "Noah's childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and..... More
Spiegel & Grau, February 2019. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nourishing" (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid "Noah's childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and..... More
