A Book of Days for the Literary Year
Thames & Hudson, September 1991. Hardcover. Glossy patterened boards with a cloth spine. Illustrations and photographs throughout. Very lightly bumped corners. More
Literary Non-Fiction
Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Paperback))
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
Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (a boundary 2 book)
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
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Tin House Books, September 2021. Hardcover. Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and elegant prose, Abbs follows in the footsteps of women who boldly reclaimed wild landscapes for themselves..... More
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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
Staff Pick
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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
The Education of Henry Adams (Audubon Library)
Houghton Mifflin Company, June 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism
Univ of California Pr, September 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
Hachette Books, August 2021. Hardcover. This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for..... More
Notes on Grief
Knopf, May 2021. Hardcover. From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Essential. --Booklist Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda..... More
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
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
Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life's Changes
Ballantine Books, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love..... More
Death in the FUNhouse: John Barth and Poststructuralist Aesthetics (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory)
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (Literature and Psychoanalysis, 6)
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
Trillion Year Spree: History of Science Fiction
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
Bullies
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Reading My Father: A Memoir
Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More
Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
The Soul of a Woman
Ballantine Books, March 2021. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes "a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more" (Associated Press). "The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende's most liberating book yet."--Elle "When I say that I...... More
Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City (SUNY series in Italian/American Culture)
Excelsior Editions, September 2009. Hardcover. Once an Engineer is a funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of a dozen years spent growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. The tail end of the sixties finds Joe and his younger brother, Mike, living with their divorced and unemployed father in a...... More
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
Viking, January 1987. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth spine with silver lettering & grey paper covered boards with sunned edges. Foxing to textblock edges. Unmarked text. Tight binding. Review copy: with (4' x 5&1/2') Viking Review Copy slip laid in. More
Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2009. Hardcover. Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe s earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose, this book shows the path that..... More
Inventory
Picador, August 2021. Paper Back. Inventory is a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology, really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his country's hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the objects of his youth in Northern Ireland. --Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time..... More
An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes: (And What Happened Afterwards)
Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More
Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio
Picador, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Short, witty observations by a commentator for National Public Radio's program, All Things Considered, assesses the creeping inanity of American politics and culture and treats the birth of new nations, whales, food, and sundry other topics. Reprint. NYT. More
