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
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
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
The Book of Vices
Riverhead, January 1995. Hardcover. More
Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Everyman's Library, September 2020. Hardcover. In this remarkable collection--the first of its kind--poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of the experience of migration. Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout history. The movement of..... 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
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
Eugene O'Neill Remembered (American Writers Remembered)
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
First Light: Mother and Son Poems: Mother & Son Poems: A Twentieth-Century American Selection
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
Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics)
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
George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative ...
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
