Literary Figures
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer–struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction–and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenti
- Author: Leadbeater, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 006337157X
- Language: English
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Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale
$13.95 Add to cartReading the Room is Paul Yamazaki’s love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.
Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Bo- Author: Yamazaki, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1958846694
- Language: English
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own child… [more below]- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1524742791
- Language: English
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Boccaccio: A Biography
$37.50 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” o- Author: Santagata, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226820947
- Language: English
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Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith
$18.99 Add to cartThis is the story of one man’s faith, told with unrivaled reflection and candor. William F. Buckley, Jr., was raised a Catholic. As the world plunged into war, and as social mores changed dramatically… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156006189
- Language: English
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
$30.00 Read moreIncisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly bel- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250361338
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author
$32.95 Read moreUncover the legacy of E.D.E.N. Southworth, the trailblazing novelist whose daring heroines and progressive ideals captivated a generation, only to be forgotten by history–until now
E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: Neal, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089137
- Language: English
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My Lives: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“This is Edmund White’s best book by far, and a classic of emotional intelligence and generosity. . . . My Lives subsumes and concentrates all his other work.”–Daily Telegraph (London)
No one has been
- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0060937963
- Language: English
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
$31.99 Add to cartIn repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. I
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0393882276
- Language: English
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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season
$19.00 Add to cart“The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” (Esquire)
“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to l
- Author: Dunne, John Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341328
- Language: English
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February House
$21.99 Add to cartFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a hous
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 061871197X
- Language: English
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
$30.00 Add to cartA raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and fo… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668094711
- Language: English
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Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe
$32.95 Add to cart“This is my favorite kind of history,” writes Dick Haeberlin in “Southwestern American Literature,” “the story of a person I did not know about before, one not famous but important anyway.” And import
- Series: Southwest Heritage
- Author: Whaley, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0865346356
- Language: English
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Homework: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartNamed a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vulture The Guardian Financial Times The Observer The Times (London) Literary Hub
“Homework is wonderful Geoff-Dyer writing, which we’ve all learned to crave;- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 374616221
- Language: English
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Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
$17.99 Add to cartLos Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world–a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity… [more below]
- Author: Anolik, Lili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 150112580X
- Language: English
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Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe first biography of Robert Crumb–one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century–whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generati… [more below]
- Author: Nadel, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1982144009
- Language: English
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
$16.00 Add to cartBastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Thi… [more below]
- Author: Allison, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0452273404
- Language: English
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Goethe: His Faustian Life – The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem That Made Our World
$35.00 Read more** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **
‘Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.‘ – Frances Wilson, The Telegraph
‘Exuberant and wide-ranging’ – Literary Review
‘Passion- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1472994868
- Language: English
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Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between m… [more below]
- Author: McFadden, Bernice L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184971
- Language: English
