American - 20th century
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Mientras Escribo: Memorias de Un Oficio / On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$17.00 Add to cartPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, til y revelador.
Cuando Stephen King se decidi a escribir sobre su profesi n y su vida, un brutal accidente automovil s… [more below]- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311507
- Language: Spanish
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Sontag: Her Life and Work: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Jour
- Author: Moser, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062896407
- Language: English
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Stories of My Life
$22.00 Add to cartThe beloved author of Bridge to Terabithia and other classics of children’s literature reveals the fascinating personal stories that have shaped her creative life.
For nearly fifty years, Katherine Pat
- Author: Paterson, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0664267815
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Cats: Revised Cuba Edition
$14.95 Add to cartThe 2nd edition–now with more stories about Hemingway’s Cuban dogs.
- Author: Brennen, Carlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649627
- Language: English
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
$20.99 Add to cartThe Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet. It challenges
- Author: Derricotte, Toi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319016
- Language: English
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Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
$18.99 Add to cartAn ingeniously constructed teaching memoir from the author of the bestselling On Writing Well — “You learn without knowing it.” (Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes)
Written with elegance, warmth,… [more below]- Author: Zinsser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 28 2005
- ISBN10: 1569243794
- Language: English
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Shockaholic
$19.99 Add to cartThis memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it’s like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty.
Told with t- Author: Fisher, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0743264835
- Language: English
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Act One: An Autobiography
$25.00 Add to cartMoss Hart’s Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled wit… [more below]
- Author: Hart, Moss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050898
- Language: English
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A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art
$40.00 Add to cartRichly illustrated and thoroughly researched, this volume showcases one of the most significant collections of American art assembled in the twenty-first century and one that has helped transform the
- Author: Piper, Corey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 173718379X
- Language: English
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Drinking the Rain
$20.00 Add to cartA memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author
At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city lif- Author: Shulman, Alix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: July 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0865476977
- Language: English
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In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
$16.95 Add to cartWhether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 0679760237
- Language: English
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The Cabala and the Woman of Andros: Two Novels
$16.99 Read more“For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the great shadow of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Now we can examine them in the spotlight for the gifts that they are–m
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063097850
- Language: English
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The Art of Fiction
$22.95 Add to cartJames Salter’s exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes–youth,
- Series: Kapnick Lectures
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0813939054
- Language: English
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The Long-Legged House
$16.95 Read moreFirst published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry’s first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issue… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1619020017
- Language: English
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Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
$19.95 Add to cartSam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including Tr
- Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: October 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292761961
- Language: English
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A Journey Into Steinbeck’s California, Third Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe third edition to A Journey into Steinbeck’s California features new photographs plus updated sections to provide a closer look into one of the most important American literary figures.
Susan Shilli
- Series: ArtPlace
- Author: Shillinglaw, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1938901827
- Language: English
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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work
$28.95 Read more“Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotions–shame, love, grief–without fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.”–Wall Street Journal
As a fiction editor at The New Yorker fr- Series: Nonpareil Books #11
- Author: Maxwell, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927963
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$15.95 Read more- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1612190901
- Language: English
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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
$32.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316558796
- Language: English
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Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
$17.95 Add to cart“An excellent volume that will appeal to anyone interested in women’s studies, social justice, journalism, and American short stories and fiction.”–Erica Swenson, Library Journal
A century after her b
- Author: Olsen, Tillie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245777
- Language: English
