American Literature (Guide to English Lit)
Penguin Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Literary Non-Fiction
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
Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism
Univ of California Pr, September 1978. Trade Paperback. 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
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
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
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
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. First Edition. 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..... 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
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
Verso, January 0001. First Edition. Hardcover. Part-memoir, part-history, "The Business of Books" is an irascible, acute and often passionate account of the collapsing standards of contemporary book publishing. It has appeared throughout the world in seventeen different editions. First/fiirst in dust jacket. Clean, sound, no markings. Appears unread... 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable..... More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Black cloth binding with bright gilt-stamping on front cover, gilt & red on spine. Top edge stained red. Tight, square binding with just a trace of dust discoloration and one tiny bump to bottom front corner. Foxing to endpapers and edges. Jacket..... More
Infinite Hope
Beacon Press, January 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of..... More
Wind, Sand and Stars
Harcourt, December 2002. Paper Back. Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, "Wind, Sand and Stars" is unsurprassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure - through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts..... More
Wartime Writings 1939-1944
Harvest Books, November 1990. Trade Paperback. A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. Wartime Writings recounts some of his aviation exploits. More
Arnold: Selected Prose (English Library)
Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. More
Pocahontas & Co.: The Fictional American Indian Woman in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Study of Method
Solum Forlag, January 1987. Hardcover. No jacket. Some light redge and corner wear on the cloth boards. More
Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother
Beacon Press, May 2021. Hardcover. Writing to his brother, G'Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood--all through wry social commentary and music/pop culture critique How does one approach Blackness, masculinity, otherness, and the perils of young adulthood? For G'Ra Asim, punk music..... More
