The Dial Press, April 2022. Hardcover. A wide range of women--actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth workers, physicians, and activists--share their experiences of becoming mothers in this multifaceted, moving, and revealing collection. Throughout her difficult pregnancy and following her frightening labor experience, Amy Schumer found camaraderie and empowerment..... More

Graywolf Press. Paper Back. An eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists. Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can "try on personae like dresses." She has the..... More

Oxford University Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and..... More

Duke University Press Books, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the..... More

Central European University Press, October 2008. Hardcover. The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and..... More

Publishing Associates Inc. Hardcover. Signed by author. Front (inner) flap of dust jacket bent back, else very good. More

Ballantine Books, May 2022. Paper Back. An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges--and rewards--of finding one's way in the world, from a BuzzFeed editor and podcast host. "A memoir that is immense in its desire to give . . . a...... More

Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. *2018 12 best books to give this holiday season --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling StoneA Best Book of 2017 --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The..... More

Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More

Mariner Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Few books have so firmly established their place in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. When it was first published in 1918, it became an instant bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. More than eighty years later, in an..... More

Fourth Estate, February 2022. Paper Back. An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black..... More

Houghton Mifflin, January 1971. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Originally published in 1962 by George Braziller. In edgeworn/chipped dustjacket with darkening/foxing at margins and DJ verso. Brick red cloth with gold lettering in black rectangular field on spine and front board. Tanning/foxing to end pages front and rear. Previous owner's name..... More

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