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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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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
$19.99 Read moreWhich famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What was Truman Capote … [more below]
- Author: Tarrant, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1510741577
- Language: English
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Letters That Never Came
$21.95 Add to cartOriginally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in 1930… [more below]
- Series: Americas (Texas Tech)
- Author: Rosencof, Mauricio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 089672865X
- Language: English
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Book of My Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man’s life is about America- Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250043549
- Language: English
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Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life
$14.95 Add to cartWhen his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn’t quite two. His mother packed up his father’s belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The “man in a box” remained a my… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803238398
- 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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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 1990
- ISBN10: 0679730044
- Language: English
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
$19.99 Add to cartIs a book the same book–or a reader the same reader–the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Reread- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530548
- 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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Necropolis
$19.95 Add to cartNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 023118705X
- Language: English
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Scatterlings
$26.99 Add to cartA BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Pick! A New Yorker
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063264110
- 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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Undertow
$16.99 Add to cartWhen Jill Morgan left Tempest Island after high school, she didn’t know what she wanted to do the rest of her life. The only thing she’d ever loved was writing fiction, but that was a pursuit with no
- Author: DeLeon, Jana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1941494234
- Language: English
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10:04: A Novel
$18.00 Add to cartA stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner (The Topeka School and Leaving the Atocha Station) about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.
Winner of The Paris Rev- Author: Lerner, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1250081335
- Language: English
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Martin Eden
$19.00 Add to cartJack London’s semiautobiographical critique of individualism that touches on contemporary issues like socialism and mental illness, now two major motion pictures―one directed by Pietro Marcello,… [more below]
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187723
- Language: English
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Frances and Bernard
$14.99 Add to cartFrances and Bernard meet in the summer of 1957. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can change the course of our lives.
They find their w… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Carlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0544105176
- Language: English
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Scatterlings
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in t… [more below]
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0063264129
- Language: English
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
$13.95 Add to cart“I took it: – and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!”
This edition presents De Quincey… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: de Quincey, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199600619
- Language: English
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Socialist Realism
$18.00 Add to cartMoving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Low, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895510
- Language: English
