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
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. 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
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2021. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that..... More
Fourth Estate, February 2021. Hardcover. 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 British..... More
Lyons Press, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing--whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence..... More
Penguin Life, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams Luvvie..... More
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
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
Harper Perennial, February 2021. Paper Back. There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women "Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart..... More
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
Smiling Hippo Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down the terrorist Omar al-Suqqit, who is looking to launch..... More
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
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
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
Ballantine Books, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. "When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020. Hardcover. 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...... More
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
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
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
New Directions, January 1946. First Edition. Cloth. Grey cloth with black lettering on spine with sunned margins & spotty soiling to boards. Jacket NOT price clipped with front & rear flap intact, yet large loss due to chipped. Five inch by two inch chip at top edge of spine spreading..... More
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
Bantam, August 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the "New York Times" bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage..... More
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
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
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
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
Virago Press (UK), April 1995. Trade Paperback. From Bijou, her very first dog, to Chunkie and Knobbie, her favourite, and last, canine companions, Elizabeth von Arnim takes us through the complex journey of her life. From her Pomeranian idyll (encapsulated in her first novel, Elizabeth and Her German Garden) to..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. More
Solum Forlag, January 1987. Hardcover. No jacket. Some light redge and corner wear on the cloth boards. More
Grand Central Publishing, October 2020. Hardcover. *Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for..... More
Cambridge University Press, March 2002. Hardcover. What is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain--or..... More
St. Martins Press, June 2003. Hardcover. From the "New York Times" Bestselling author of "Running With Scissors" comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When..... More
St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More
Sun & Moon Press, September 1992. Hardcover. In this astonishingly acrobatic work, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature--or art--through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbury, and other seminal figures of our century. 2nd printing in very good jacket. Green cloth..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2021. Hardcover. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American..... More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, January 2021. Hardcover. In this comic adventure through the loneliness epidemic, a middle-aged everyman looks around one day and realizes that he seems to have misplaced his friends, inspiring him to set out on a hilarious and ultimately moving quest to revive old..... More
Random House (NY), April 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Nicholson Baker's novels, The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, have been highly praised for their sparkling originality, deadpan humor, and eccentric style. Now, with U and I, Baker has written the most idiosyncratic and deftly illuminating essay on literary influence in recent memory..... More
Immortal Classics, January 1929. Hardcover. Decorative black cloth in tattered jacket. More
Henry Holt & Co, October 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. A little bowed; remainder stripe on top edge, which is also about weathered. Jacket is unclipped but has damp-staining on interior and edgewear; else, very good. More
Routledge & Kegan Paul /Bollingen Series LXXV / Princeton University Press, 1969. Cloth. Volume 2 of two volume set. Grey cloth with gold emblem on front board; Gold lettering on red tile on spine. Price clipped jacket with sunned spine. Previous owner's name & a date inked front free end..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition in dustjacket with slight edgewear & darkening also along edges. Not price clipped. Original price of $7.95 on jacket flap. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Darkening board edges. Black textblock topstain looks clean and..... More
Harper, December 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of more than thirty books, including most recently the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large. Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large. Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation..... More
Yale University Press, February 2020. Hardcover. "Elegant and formally ingenious."--Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his..... More
Paradigm Press, January 1991. Stapled Magazine. More
Little, Brown and Company, March 2021. Hardcover. A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who "honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life" (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winner for The Friend) When "The Fourth State of..... More
Red Hen Press, September 2016. Trade Paperback. Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion..... 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
David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. This memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and occasionally sad, it is the author's account of her marriage to a Scottish landowner and of the years they spent together at "The..... More
Studies in Romanticism, Spring 1971. Pamphlet. Stapled pamphlet. Volume 10, Number 2 in Studies in Romanticism series. More
Cambridge University Press, December 1964. Paper Back. Cover mildly worn & discolored. 2nd edition/first paperback edition. (172 pages). More
Macmillan, January 1966. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd printing, 1966. Octavo. In dustjacket with slight darkening of jacket edges. Not price clipped. Original price of $4.95 on jacket front flap. Ebony cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Darkened & dust stained textblock edges. Tightly bound. Previous owner's bookplate affixed front..... More
Ig Publishing, January 2021. Paper Back. "Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise."--CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay "Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound..... More
Riverhead Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are..... More
Feral House, June 2013. Paper Back. You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition. Perhaps no other literary critic but Harold Bloom could--or would--undertake a project of this immensity. And certainly..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1979. Trade Paperback. Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biograoher. More
The Viking Press, June 1966. Reprint. Cloth. In edgeworn, rubbed, stained, price-clipped dustjacket Red star rubber stamped on jacket flap & front pastedown. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Clean internal text. Foxing/dust stains textblock edges. (762 pages). More
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and..... 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
University of Texas Press, May 2020. Hardcover. When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical..... More
University of Texas Press, May 2020. Paper Back. Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the..... More
Picador, September 2020. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne..... More
Methuen, January 1982. Paper Back. Tanning/darkening of margins. Previous owner's name inked verso of wrapper. (110 pages). More
University Alabama Press, April 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of All Over but the Shoutin' now takes a look beyond the headlines for extraordinary tales of ordinary people and their life struggles. Black cloth spine with silver lettering. Full number line. Mylar wrapped... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2021. Hardcover. One of The New York Times's books to watch for in March The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century As someone who studied under Edward Said and remained a friend until his death..... More
Ecco Press, February 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime--and neither..... More
Random House, May 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life--from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years Tom..... More
Grove Press, July 2020. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961..... More
Broadway, September 2004. Trade Paperback. One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson..... More
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
Grove Press, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. All The Young Men, a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal..... More
Picador, June 2003. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised..... More
Atria Books, September 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future. Throughout the past year..... More
H.C. Peck & Theo Bliss, January 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. In marginally worn brown cloth with glit decorations & lettering. Gold edges. Non-authorial inscription in fountain pen on front free end page. Unfortunatel dark spots (burn marks) in a few splashes near gutter first frew pages. Pulled at top of..... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, April 2020. Hardcover. One cozy, funny, year with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat not included). Inside a...... More
David R. Godine Publisher, November 2020. Hardcover. A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and through the misanthropic eyes of a very grumpy bookseller, we see them all--from the "Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might..... More
Random House (NY), May 2003. Hardcover. Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the "continental cuisine" palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House--nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls "sleepy-time restaurants, where everything is served on a bed of something else."..... More
Warner Books, April 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s, Denny Hanson was the golden boy, a clean-cut, Rhodes Scholar whose bright future and million-dollar smile made him the subject of a Life magazine feature. The bestselling author of Uncivil Liberties chronicles this life that once held limitless possibilities, but ended..... More
Vintage, May 1991. Trade Paperback. One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question..... More
Vintage, January 1992. Trade Paperback. By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of..... More
Plume Book / New American Library, October 1977. Paper Back. 6th Plume paperback printing. Worn at top of spine. (419 pages). More
Harper & Row, January 1974. Trade Paperback. More
Mariner Books, March 2021. Paper Back. A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr's writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, and more. Throughout his 25-year career, David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness..... More
Picador, December 2020. Paper Back. A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrère. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrère has, over..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2021. Hardcover. A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2021. Paper Back. Weaving together medical history, art, memoir, and science, How to Treat People is a poignant memoir that beautifully explores the intricacies of the human condition. As a trainee nurse, Molly Case learns to care for her patients, sharing not only their..... More
Doubleday / Anchor, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Soiling & markings to cover. Taped & scarred spine toward base. Ink underling & side-notes. Speckled soiling textblock top edge. Typography by Edward Gorey. (387 pp.). More
University of Texas Press, April 2018. Hardcover. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir..... More
Synaesthesia Press, January 1999. Stapled Soft Cover. Softcover chapbook with dust jacket. Folded & stapled. One-half inch tear to top edge of front panel of jacket. Else pristine, fine all around. No markings. More
Chelsea Green Publishing, October 2019. Paper Back. Booklist Editors' Choice "Best Books of 2019" An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of..... More
Corgi, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Simon & Schuster, January 2015. Hardcover. "America's foremost rhetorical pugilist." --John Giuffo, The Village Voice The death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary writers. For more than forty years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of..... More
Random House, 1949. First American. Cloth. Black spine with gold lettering starting to fade; brown cloth with gold lettering. Mild spine slant. Light edge discoloration. Map of South America on end pages. Photographs & frontpiece by Caskey. Previous owners' name inked front free end page. Top edge tinted black. Some..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2021. Hardcover. The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles--a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is "first..... More
Catapult, October 2018. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From..... More
