Medallion Press, August 2014. Trade Paperback. Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images--nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of..... More
Dover Publications, March 2016. Trade Paperback. America's Second City abounds in literary talent, and this anthology spotlights writers associated with Chicago as well as tales that take the Midwestern metropolis as their setting. Contributors include Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, James T. Farrell, Edna Ferber, Zane Grey, and many others. George..... More
Delta, October 1993. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid..... More
Spring Publications, March 1987. Trade Paperback. Essays by Norman O. Brown, Danilo Dolci, Wolfgang Giegerich, James Hillman, Denise Levertov, Robert Jay Lifton, Joanna Macy, David Miller, Mike Perlam, and Mary Watkins. An extraordinary and prescient conference took place at Salva Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1983. The..... More
Persea, April 2022. Paper Back. Including contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. In the Between presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town--all striving to forge..... More
Comma Press, December 2016. Trade Paperback. Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2103 - exactly 100 years after the disastrous American and British-led invasion of Iraq? How might that war reach across a century of repair..... More
Oxford University Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better man's estate, they..... More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In this ninth volume of "New Stories from the South, " you'll find characters you wish you knew, along with others you'll be glad you don't: a boy who wears his mother's shoes as his father lies dying, a young mother dying of cancer..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Poetry today holds mainstream attention as never before. From community workshops to reading groups, from coffee house poetry slams to small press lit mags, from universities to web 'zines, the world of poetry has become part of our everyday lives. Demonstrating the..... More
Random House Trade, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming. This Is Not Chick Lit is..... More
Routledge, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as..... More
Finnish Literature Society, January 1992. Paper Back. An anthology of contemporary Finnish poetry and prose, with texts ranging from 1945 to the present. The work, by 86 authors, reflects the social changes that inform the writing; during the half-century covered, Finland developed from a traditional agrarian society to a post-industrial..... More
Roof Books, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Prentice Hall, January 1999. Hardcover. Library/School binding. Seemingly unread. More
Vintage Books, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Starcherone Books, July 2011. Trade Paperback. 30 Under 30 is an anthology of thirty top young writers publishing fiction today. Editors Blake Butler and Lily Hoang have compiled a collection of thirty stories from these thirty writers--all creating work on the more innovative side of things; a great opportunity for..... More
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Chaosium, March 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. Paperback original; Complete number string. Stated, First Edition. Ocatavo.. Clean, sound, without interior markings. Mild shelfwear to cover. 235 pages. More
Peter Pauper Press, January 1952. Hardcover. 12mo. {4 & 1/4' x 7 & 1/4'}; Mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Pictorial paper over boards. (62 pages). More
Doubleday-Anchor Original, 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Paperback original. True first. Very good+overall. Unmarked, bright cover. Foxing/darkening top edge of textblock. (458 pages.). More
Mentor / The New American Library, October 1954. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear and darkening/foxing. Some curling to cover. Foxing to interiors, especially verso of cover pages. (307 pages plus twelve page list Mentor and NAL/Signet titles.). More
Arcadia Publishing, December 1999. Trade Paperback. More than Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, Gullahfolklore claims a rich cultural heritage, yet few beyond the Carolina coastknow much about it. However, it is growing in both popularity and interest, asattested by recent scholarly and entertaining examinations of the dialect andstories.The author, Ambrose..... More
Prime Books, May 2017. Trade Paperback. Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both..... More
84th Street Press, October 2021. Trade Paperback. "Gobsmackingly good." -Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month "I assumed it would be good, but it's like... really good." -Meagan Karimi-Naser, audiobook narrator "These refreshing new voices are a joy to read and make me want to come up with..... More
