Literary Collections
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A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song
$18.95 Read moreSimilar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers’ minds.
A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic- Author: Forhan, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1732610363
- Language: English
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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For the Time Being
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a “beautifully written and delightfully strange” (Daily… [more below]
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703470
- Language: English
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Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils
$24.95 Read moreAt the intersection of 1980s pop culture, the Cold War, and the trials of coming of age sits Melt with Me. Paul Crenshaw takes up a range of topics from Star Wars to video games, Choose Your Own Adven… [more below]
- Author: Crenshaw, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258824
- Language: English
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Brewtown Tales: More Stories from Milwaukee and Beyond
$24.95 Read moreJohn Gurda’s South Side Milwaukee family loved potluck dinners. “From the Jell-O salads at the start of the line through the hot dishes in the middle and on to the pumpkin bars at the end, the food wa… [more below]
- Author: Gurda, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 087020999X
- Language: English
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Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction
$19.95 Read moreAt a time when the American publishing industry increasingly perceives fiction lovers as rather delicate creatures–easily offended, allergic to ambiguity, afraid to venture outside their comfort zone
- Author: Schweizer, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988717300
- Language: English
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A Century of Queer Korean Fiction
$40.00 Add to cartSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature
Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay
- Series: MLA Texts and Translations
- Author: Perry, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1603296271
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Ecstasy: Issue One
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]
- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619006
- Language: English
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A Los Pies del Maestro
$8.95 Read moreA work that has found a place in the spiritual literature of our time, becoming a contemporary classic. Discernment, desirelessness, good conduct and love are the qualities that Krishnamurti exposes a… [more below]
- Author: Krishnamurti, Jiddu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 8441441324
- Language: Spanish
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Great Speeches
$8.00 Read moreFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable el… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268721
- Language: English
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Essential Feminist Reader
$20.00 Add to cartIncluding: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois H l ne Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling – Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Freedman, Estelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0812974603
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$24.95 Read moreThe first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick’s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1681371545
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
$40.00 Read moreLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection
- Author: Usher, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1838853170
- Language: English
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Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993
$32.00 Read moreArt writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of “painting as a poetic act”
This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-93), an extraordinary
- Author: Murry, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1940190304
- Language: English
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
$16.95 Read moreIn Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesoth
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539504
- Language: English
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Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias
$18.00 Read more“I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous an
- Series: Department of Critical Thought
- Author: Robertson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1897388896
- Language: English
