Literary Figures
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
$22.00 Read moreA bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS … [more below]- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593134656
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
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These Possible Lives
$12.95 Read moreNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fle… [more below]
- Author: Jaeggy, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0811226875
- Language: English
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Correspondence
$16.50 Read morePaul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg … [more below]
- Series: German List
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0857426427
- Language: English
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
$18.95 Read moreLambda Literary Award finalist
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution
- Author: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 155152600X
- Language: English
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Lou Reed: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$15.95 Read moreA revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ‘n’ roll–as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself
In this collection of powerful interviews… [more below]- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Reed, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1612194788
- Language: English
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These Precious Days: Essays
$28.99 Read moreThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.
“The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and invitin
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0063118033
- Language: English
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Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius
$29.95 Read moreA revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an a- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362649
- Language: English
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Osip Mandelstam: A Biography
$39.95 Read moreThe personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book
This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combi- Author: Dutli, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 183976158X
- Language: English
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath
$17.95 Add to cartThe electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America’s most acclaimed poets.
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. … [more below]- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0385493916
- Language: English
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire’s life and work
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best k- Series: Verso Classics
- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290459
- Language: English
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Personal Writings
$18.00 Read moreThe Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers fo- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525567216
- Language: English
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
$19.00 Read morePart autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir–Christ Stopped at Eboli is a reissue of Carlo Levi’s classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.
It was to- Author: Levi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250623081
- Language: English
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life
$50.00 Read more**One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022**
From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis–a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the le- Author: Curtis, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0385354215
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the 13th Annual Spirited Award, for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits
In th
A history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved- Author: Greene, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0143133012
- Language: English
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
$16.00 Read moreFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys – “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” –The Boston Globe
In 2011, Grantland ma… [more below]- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0345804333
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10
$56.25 Add to cart“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away–to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #10
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0520267192
- Language: English
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
$19.00 Add to cartThe Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea.
Long regarded as Africa’s preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-- Author: Laye, Camara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1954
- ISBN10: 080901548X
- Language: English
