Literary Collections
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
$29.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 159017321X
- Language: English
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Peter Hujar’s Day
$18.00 Read more“This slim volume is Peter’s sexiest self-portrait. Read it and weep if you didn’t know him. Or read it and weep if you did that we lost him.” -Nan Goldin
On December 18, 1974, the author Linda Rosenkr
- Author: Rosenkrantz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1639442677
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Add to cart“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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Breaking Into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text – Revised Edition
$20.95 Add to cartA collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary – plus downloadable audio.
Breaking into Jap- Author: Murray, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1568365896
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Yellow Rain: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK- Author: Vang, Mai Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450658
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Read moreIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$32.95 Read moreJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal fig- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048329
- Language: English
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What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt
$26.99 Add to cartInternationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry–especiall
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324090529
- Language: English
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
$31.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.
For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been- Author: Noonan, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593854772
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
$16.95 Read morePoetry. Literary Criticism. A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO PROSE POETRY is as personal and provocati… [more below]
- Author: McDowell, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0978984889
- Language: English
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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
$24.99 Add to cart“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deepl
- Author: Alareer, Refaat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1682196216
- Language: English
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Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022
$40.00 Add to cartThe journals of the Nobel Prize-winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings
For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593801245
- Language: English
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Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
$17.99 Add to cartFast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Conn
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079452
- Language: English
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Intervals
$19.95 Add to cartWhat makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. S
- Author: Brooker, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804270830
- Language: English
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$25.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books
From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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The Book Against Death
$16.95 Add to cartThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death.
- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237990
- Language: English
