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Authority: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartA bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,- Author: Chu, Andrea Long
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600333
- Language: English
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Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together
$27.99 Read moreWelcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.
In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around- Author: Pasricha, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164506
- Language: English
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
$40.00 Add to cartFor writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Wh… [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1931082278
- Language: English
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Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
$36.00 Read moreAlthough Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing–or even a novel of the sea. Yet Puli… [more below]
- Author: King, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022678987X
- Language: English
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
$21.00 Read moreHere in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066227
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
$16.00 Read moreEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. I… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144188
- Language: English
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James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study
$15.95 Add to cart- Author: Gilbert, Stuart
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 12 1955
- ISBN10: 0394700139
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$17.00 Read more“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did–as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” –A. O. Scott, The New York Times
A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserte- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140183779
- Language: English
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The Portable Henry Rollins
$22.00 Read moreHenry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year… [more below]
- Author: Rollins, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0375750002
- Language: English
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95 Read moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
$26.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O’Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.
This authoritative and acc- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491182
- Language: English
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?: Bestselling Author of Family–The Ties That Bind…and Gag!
$9.99 Add to cart“See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud.”
Art Buchwald
The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again–this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, mar… [more below]- Author: Bombeck, Erma
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0449208397
- Language: English
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A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
$27.95 Add to cart“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously e
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1604699582
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
$14.00 Add to cartOur best-seller. The best bathroom book ever for serious readers.
- Author: Richardson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0967266890
- Language: English
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The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft And Extraterrestrial Pop Culture
$27.95 Add to cartIn this entertaining and informative book, Colavito traces the origins of thebelief in ancient extraterrestrial visitors to the work of horror writer H.P.Lovecraft. Illustrations.
- Author: Colavito, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1591023521
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
$42.48 Add to cartThis Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Author: Collins, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1009292846
- Language: English
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My World-And Welcome to It
$18.99 Add to cartThe world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseb… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 19 1969
- ISBN10: 0156623447
- Language: English
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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon
$35.00 Read moreOur foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O’Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.
No critic has better unders- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536400
- Language: English
