Literary Figures
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe–the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos,… [more below]
- Author: Egginton, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593315073
- Language: English
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bes
- Author: Kushins, C. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 63306867
- Language: English
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Airless Spaces, New Edition
$17.95 Add to cartShort stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.
After they raised her dose to 42 mg. of Trilafo- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Firestone, Shulamith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902517
- Language: English
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Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
$29.00 Add to cartIn this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life–a transformation fable fro… [more below]
- Author: Chen, Anelise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1984801848
- Language: English
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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’Brien
$37.00 Add to cartThe first literary biography of Tim O’Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original int
- Author: Vernon, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250358493
- Language: English
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Malaparte: A Biography
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artist… [more below]
- Author: Serra, Maurizio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378701
- Language: English
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I Tell You Now (Second Edition): Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
$19.95 Add to cartI Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and … [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Krupat, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293143
- Language: English
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With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
$17.95 Add to cart“Master craftsman” (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-ne… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096930
- Language: English
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Sculptor’s Daughter
$19.99 Add to cartTove Jansson s memoirs of her early years, filled with joy, exuberance, and the satisfaction of being with an abundance of photographic illustrations.
The excitement of being alive and savoring the goo
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 006233462X
- Language: English
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Life and Art: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartA marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody’s Fool and The Destiny Thief
Life and Art–these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterfu- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593802160
- Language: English
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Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel
$29.95 Read moreDelve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the depths of despair to the celebration of life, Wiesel’s fifteen novels offer a poignan… [more below]
- Author: Rosmarin, L?onard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 177161756X
- Language: English
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After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
$29.99 Add to cartA moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and “gifted storyteller” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker).
Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody
- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0618684182
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$45.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twai- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525561722
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$32.00 Add to cartA new book coming from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803671
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Life Album
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of th- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300262205
- Language: English
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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998
$40.00 Add to cartFor the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force.
The name Helen Garne- Author: Garner, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0553387499
- Language: English
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In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf
$27.00 Add to cartFor readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers–as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics–the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deepl… [more below]
- Author: Christle, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1643755927
- Language: English
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The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
$28.00 Add to cartA brilliant collaboration between internationally acclaimed Jane Austen expert, Janine Barchas, and New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, Isabel Greenberg.
The Novel Life of Jane Austen is a o- Author: Barchas, Janine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489375
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$21.99 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) from New York Times bestselling author James Patterson is a collection of riveting stories celebrating the heroic efforts of the people who are on the… [more below]
- Series: Heroes Among Us #4
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538758989
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.
Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is exp- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390502
- Language: English
