Literary Figures
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Sky of Stone: A Memoir
$8.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys and The Coalwood Way transports us back to his West Virginia hometown and the summer that nearly destroyed the close-knit community in this “bea… [more below]
- Series: Coalwood #3
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0440240921
- Language: English
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The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
$33.00 Read moreA biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of… [more below]
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0593473655
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
$16.99 Add to cartSpiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author’s seminary days, early ministry, and writing career.–James Merrill, author of Changing Light at Sandover
- Author: Buechner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0060611820
- Language: English
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
$30.00 Add to cartIncisive, 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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Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.
Ninety c
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0008380163
- Language: English
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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom
$30.00 Add to cartA selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired
Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0300283830
- Language: English
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Voices
$19.95 Add to cartJames Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten … [more below]
- Author: Prokosch, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896230120
- Language: English
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Baldwin: A Love Story
$23.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025
AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025
AN INSTA- Author: Boggs, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 125043775X
- Language: English
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
$35.00 Add to cartRachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547238231
- Language: English
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Paul Celan: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartA luminous, groundbreaking biography of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, best known for the poem “Deathfugue.”
Paul Celan (1920-1970) was recognized as the greatest- Author: Arno, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0674298632
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan’s Modernist Master (Free Bilingual Audio Recordings)
$24.99 Add to cart“A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara’s place on the international stage.” –Paul Perry, novelist and poet
This definitive bilingual edition of Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937) brings the most dynami- Author: Nakahara, Chuya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 480531897X
- Language: English
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
$20.00 Add to cart“Groundbreaking . . . Chang’s lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family’s time capsule and an artist’s timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.” –NPR
Now in paperb
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1571311882
- Language: English
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Koljos
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 8433949098
- Language: Spanish
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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic
$21.00 Add to cartLet It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder… [more below]
- Author: DeRogatis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0767905091
- Language: English
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The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
$27.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
“Feminism, history, literature, politics–this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” –Therese A- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0525537155
- Language: English
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Auden
$30.00 Add to cartPeter Ackroyd’s compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century.
Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This critical- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391722
- Language: English
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Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, where he had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: the same forty acres that had sustained his family’s horses had sustained a v… [more below]
- Author: Rember, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031117
- Language: English
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 – A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 – A Time Best Memoir of 2025 – Name- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593654005
- Language: English
