19th Century American Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
Fiction & Literature
20 ANNI DI FASCISMO VISTI DA LEPORINI
Fantasia, 1976. Soft Cover. Quarto No text on spine. More
'47 The Magazine of the Year (November)
Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc., November 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Featuring 'Must Marriage Be for Life?,' a cover story by Margaret Mead and contributions by Herman Wouk, Nathaniel Benchley, M.F.K. Fisher, Irwin Shaw and Jean-Paul Sartre. More
America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
University of Texas Press, November 2019. Hardcover. The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States..... More
Andrew Marvell: A Critical Anthology (Penguin critical anthologies)
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?
Penguin Books, December 2005. Trade Paperback. In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac..... More
The Beckett Studies Reader
University Press of Florida, April 1993. Hardcover. "A distinguished gathering of Beckett commentary. . . . All of the critics in Gontarski's collection excel."--Melvin J. Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Original, well thought out, and unique contributions to the field of Beckett scholarship."--Brian Finney, University of Southern California For fifteen..... More
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking
Notting Hill Editions, March 2020. Paper Back. "Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness." --Søren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it..... More
Best European Fiction 2019
Dalkey Archive Press, December 2018. Paper Back. Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. This year's anthology brings together some of the most exciting prose writing in Europe today, by writers such as..... More
Big Fat Little Lit (Picture Puffin Books)
Puffin, September 2006. Trade Paperback. New in paperback for the very first time comes the "New York Times" bestselling "Little Lit" series! Choice comic stories culled from the three bestselling comic collections edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly: "Little Lit: Once Upon a Time, Little Lit: Strange Stories for..... More
Black Mountain Poems
New Directions, November 2019. Paper Back. Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and..... More
The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons from 1913-1940
Fantagraphics, June 2009. Hardcover. In 1907, at the tender age of 22, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Flo Ziegfeld dressed his dancers as "Brinkley Girls," in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three popular songs were written..... More
Bullets into Bells
Beacon Press, December 2017. Paper Back. A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean..... More
Staff Pick
Bullets into Bells is an important collection of voices. It pairs poetry from poets like Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Yosef Komunyakaa, and plenty more with your everyday citizens' response to gun violence. It will move you.
Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories
Delta, October 1993. Trade Paperback. Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid, moving collection..... More
The Child of Pleasure (Decadence from Dedalus)
Dedalus Ltd. Trade Paperback. More
Comedy by the Numbers: The 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity
McSweeneys, June 2007. Trade Paperback. This book is perfect for people who are funny and for those who aren't funny (thus it is marketable to 100 percent of the population). As we all know, true creativity comes from simple formulas and the memorization of data. This new bible makes the..... More
Coming to Age: Growing Older with Poetry
Little, Brown and Company, April 2020. Hardcover. This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We..... More
Conversations with Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, October 1987. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
Conversations with Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
Conversations with Tom Wolfe (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi, April 1990. Trade Paperback. "Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronicler of his times," and "champion of realism" are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is..... More
Crosscurrents in the Drama: East and West (Theatre Symposium Series)
University Alabama Press, August 1998. Trade Paperback. Distinguished scholars and artists consider the mingling of Eastern and Western cultures and traditions in theatre. The divergent cultures of East and West had been completely separated from one another for so long that their mutual discovery, beginning a little more than a...... More
Dylan Dog. Phobia
Mondadori, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Very minor shel wear on the cover. More
Earth Elegies
Trade Paperback. More
East African Literature: An Anthology
Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, August 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Essays and Fictions
Tyrant Books, January 2019. Paper Back. Brad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and propriety, with rigorous self-awareness and generosity. By confusing ideas around fiction and autobiography, Phillips writes with painful sincerity about shame, addiction, trauma, and the more troubling outreaches of sexual..... More
