Literary Figures
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Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
$18.99 Add to cart“So many memoirs make you feel that you’ve been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not j
- Author: Grealy, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 006328863X
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: A Memoir
$25.99 Add to cart“A powerful true story of two lovers…A tour-de-force memoir”-Kirkus Reviews
In this moving memoir, Judy Crichton brings to life her turbulent marriage to novelist Robert Crichton and the exhilarating
- Author: Crichton, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Whatever Happened to Frankie King
$21.95 Add to cartA real-life mystery of books and basketball.
Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were com
- Author: Neugeboren, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790775
- Language: English
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard
$25.00 Read moreA new critical biography of medieval England’s most famous poet.
For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales’ lively and oft- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Flannery, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148634
- Language: English
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse
Many cultural and religious traditions expect those w- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.
“In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human. And- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1639733728
- Language: English
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A Curious Heart: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker
$24.95 Read more- Author: Hall, Penelope Coker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990949300
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (Loa #386): Political Fictions / Fixed Ideas / Where I Was from / The Year of Magical Thinking (Memoir & Play) /
$40.00 Add to cartThe ultimate Didion edition concludes with the brilliant and haunting works from her incomparable late phase.
Library of America now completes its definitive, three-volume edition of one of the most e- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537873
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Add to cart“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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Letters to His Neighbor
$13.95 Add to cartMarcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-li
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238644
- Language: English
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
$30.00 Read moreSince her death, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1496846672
- Language: English
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Roman Year: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartThe author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that be- Author: Aciman, Andr?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0374613389
- Language: English
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Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
$37.50 Add to cart- Author: Kidby, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063432420
- Language: English
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The Burroughs-Warhol Connection
$28.00 Add to cartThe Burroughs-Warhol Connection revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol in 1980. Its author, Victor Bockris, was a friend and collaborator of both men and attempted
- Author: Bockris, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1068698004
- Language: English
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Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
$28.00 Add to cartAn inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.
“A beautiful portrait of- Author: Edim, Glory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0525619798
- Language: English
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This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
$39.95 Add to cartPortrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism
The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged pers
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811329
- Language: English
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Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
$39.95 Read moreThe Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist
Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Time- Author: Cockburn, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290742
- Language: English
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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
$38.99 Add to cartA TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER
‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-rea
- Author: Byrne, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0008322252
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing
$32.95 Add to cartA provocative and unique look at how the women Hemingway loved shaped this literary legend
Ernest Hemingway’s passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged
- Author: Sindelar, Nancy W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084682
- Language: English
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Wandering Through Life: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties
In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 080216367X
- Language: English
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