19th Century American Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
Fantasia, 1976. Soft Cover. Quarto No text on spine. More
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
Library of America, October 2020. Hardcover. A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets..... More
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
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Akashic Books, August 2017. Trade Paperback. Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018's Books All Georgians Should Read! Kenji Jasper's "A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House" nominated for a 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story! "Atlanta has its share, maybe more..... More
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
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write..... More
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. "To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had..... More
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
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
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
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
University Press of Mississippi, October 1987. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
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
Harry N. Abrams, April 2018. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to..... More
Mondadori, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Very minor shel wear on the cover. More
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Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, August 1983. Trade Paperback. More
University Alabama Press, January 2017. Hardcover. Eugene O'Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright's life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O'Neill. Known principally as the author of some..... More
Harcourt Trade Publishers, April 1992. Trade Paperback. The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son relationships; with works by eighty poets, including Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes. More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the..... More
Random House, October 2008. Hardcover. Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York's East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address..... More