Literary Figures
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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
$18.95 Add to cartThroughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Begi… [more below]
- Author: Kunitz, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329976
- Language: English
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Nietzsche in Italy
$16.95 Add to cartA fascinating classic account of Nietzsche’s travels in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century, where he found inspiration for his major works
First published in 1929, Nietzsche in Italy has neve… [more below]- Author: De Pourtales, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277285
- Language: English
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Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir
$29.99 Read moreWorking closely with publisher Casterman and Moebius Production, Dark Horse now brings you Numa Sadoul’s landmark interviews with Jean “Moebius” Giraud. The master reflects on his many lives as an art… [more below]
- Author: Sadoul, Numa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1506713432
- Language: English
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Annie Ernaux: The Boxed Set
$191.35 Read moreThirteen books written by 2022 Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux published by Seven Stories Press.
Includes a colorful limited edition poster. “The harrowing beauty and brevity of these books and their app- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1644213605
- Language: English
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
$17.00 Read more” Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticu- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977650
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written–Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–landed at the heart of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593135687
- Language: English
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Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart
$32.00 Read moreA memoir of an extraordinary life–poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politi… [more below]
- Author: Styron, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0525659021
- Language: English
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I Can Give You Anything But Love
$16.95 Add to cartA beloved memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature–whose graphic, funny, and caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishm… [more below]
- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644213893
- Language: English
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A Termination
$20.00 Add to cartNot my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn’t tell a friend. . .
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying adminis
- Author: Moore, Honor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798985976922
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp Through History
$26.95 Add to cartMark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain’s own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain’s journey through the reg
- Author: Stephens, John Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493053124
- Language: English
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Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012
$22.95 Read moreA celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982–a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over thre… [more below]
- Author: Hellier, Odile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1644213796
- Language: English
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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
$18.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies wor
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163769
- Language: English
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Schiffy – The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don’t Know, But Should
$21.95 Read moreSchiffy – The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don’t Know, But Should is the story of David “Schiffy” Schiff, an internationally recognized as the go-to Orals Coach for some of the world’s larg
- Author: Schiff, David Schiffy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633022390
- Language: English
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This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing
$16.95 Read moreA 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical
“Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in c- Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1641292946
- Language: English
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The Mystery Guest
$18.00 Read moreA “frank and wry, mad and graceful” (Slate) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it.
When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Gr?goire Bouillier had no way of knowing tha- Author: Bouillier, Gr?goire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341050
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$35.00 Read moreThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
“Magisterial.”–Kirkus Reviews More than tw- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300221754
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Read moreThe life, work, and legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most published African American women.
This book explores the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most-published Africa- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Hopson, Cheryl R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1789147956
- Language: English
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Reading, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1328595919
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
$26.00 Add to cartA feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
Deborah Levy’s vital litera- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614970
- Language: English
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Groundwork
$42.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster’s nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude.
Paul Auster spent his fifty-y- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 125024580X
- Language: English
