19th Century American Writers on Writing (The Writer's World)
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
Trinity University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. More
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
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
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. 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
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write..... More
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
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
Harry N. Abrams, April 2018. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to..... More
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
Yale University Press, July 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Arcade Publishing, July 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. *2016 Edgar Award Finalist* *2016 Anthony Award Finalist* *2016 Macavity Award Finalist* In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2012. Hardcover. The books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books..... More
Melville House, July 2020. Paper Back. "Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only..... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. 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 the set of verbal moods that..... 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
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
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
Scribner, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket very good. Boards have some sunning on the top edge. A small scrape on the back board. Light foxing on the endpapers. More
Harper Wave, June 2020. Hardcover. A Kitchen Confidential for the cocktail profession, Unvarnished is a fly-on-the-wall narrative peek at the joys, pains, and peculiarities of life "behind the stick." When it opened a decade ago, the acclaimed Los Angeles speakeasy The Varnish--owned, designed, and managed by award-winning cocktail aficionado Eric..... 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
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
Counterpoint LLC, November 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth. To most, he was a brilliant artist who shied away from celebrity and photographers, but to the distinguished painter Avigdor Arikha and his wife, author Anne Atik, Beckett was the close friend with whom..... 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
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1982. First Thus. Paper Back. Five-inches x Seven & 3/4-inches; 12mo.; heaviy foxing to textblock edges; marginal wear to wraps. First paperback edition. British edition. Uncommon in paperback. In fact not common in any version. (452 pages). 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
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
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
Ecco, November 2020. Paper Back. A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America When he was in..... 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
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
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
Vintage, December 2019. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up..... 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
Tin House Books, August 2020. Hardcover. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads "Atlantis Black." The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification, yet the body is quickly cremated and..... 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
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, 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
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
Morrow, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in dustjacket with darkened spine. Not price clipped. Original price of $6 on jacket flap front bottom corner. 1/2-inch closed tear bottom edge front panel of jacket. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with gold lettering & tan paper covered boards..... 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
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
Persea, June 2020. Hardcover. More
Grove Press, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red. She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who would tend to the patient inside, all of them..... 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
Pub Group West, April 2001. Trade Paperback. One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose..... More
Random House, June 2020. Hardcover. An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. "A smart, brave gift to the world. Bravo!"--Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir and The Liar's Club For almost thirty years..... 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, 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
University of Notre Dame Press, November 2008. Hardcover. In The Yeats Brothers, Calvin Bedient delivers a brilliant exploration of modernism through the mutual illumination provided by Ireland's greatest poet and greatest painter. By examining the poems of the one and the paintings of the other, he recovers an often overlooked..... 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, August 2020. Paper Back. The Nobel Prize-winner's most influential and enduring political writings, reorganized and recontextualized, with a foreword by Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Perhaps the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, Albert Camus (1913-1960), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is more relevant today than ever..... More
Riverhead Books, February 2019. Paper Back. NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who..... More
Harper & Row, January 1974. Trade Paperback. 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
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
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
Knopf, October 2020. Hardcover. "Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular achievement." --Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the..... More
Hanover Square Press, October 2020. Paper Back. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an Indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community. When his..... More
Smithsonian Books (DC), May 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers (including Patricia Highsmith, Rod Serling, Ray Bradbury, and Jim Thompson) probed the Cold War's cultural contradictions and indirectly challenged its social pieties: the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity..... More
Algonquin Books, January 2006. Trade Paperback. For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam..... More
Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2020. Paper Back. Colin Dayan meditates on the connection between her personal and family history and her relationship with animals in this lyrical memoir about her upbringing in the South. Unraveling memories alongside family documents and photographs, Animal Quintet takes a raw look at..... More
Vintage, September 1990. Trade Paperback. From the shelter of a protective family, to the lessons of tragedy and independence, this is an indelible portrait of a harsh and beautiful country and the inspiring story of a remarkable woman's life. More
Commission on Preservation &, July 1998. Hardcover. More
Harper, January 2021. Hardcover. A riveting family drama evocative of Angela's Ashes and The Glass Castle, about a woman who discovers the shocking secret at the center of her mother's life. Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her..... More