Literary Figures
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Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: “…Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new … [more below]
- Author: MacNiven, Ian S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0811217302
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
$18.00 Add to cartFew artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called “an acute observer of the unmapped region s… [more below]
- Author: Scholder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136710
- Language: English
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I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartA Vogue Best Book of the Year
“What Ferrante did for female friends–exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold–Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She’s esse- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0399573070
- Language: English
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The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews
$34.99 Add to cartA Picador Paperback Original
The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century–and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.–Margaret- Series: Paris Review Interviews #1
- Author: Gourevitch, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0312361750
- Language: English
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Cherry
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars’ Club left off, Karr dashes down the tr… [more below]
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0141002077
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
$17.99 Add to cartWarning *
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting
- Author: Cleverly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 006115928X
- Language: English
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That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life
$19.99 Read moreWith the warmth and humor we’ve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.
In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recou- Author: Keillor, Garrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763171
- Language: English
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Conversations with George Saunders
$50.00 Add to cartBesides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunde… [more below]
- Series: Literary Conversations
- Author: O’Connell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1496840305
- Language: English
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
$13.99 Add to cartGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) is a spiritual autobiography by English author and Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Written while Bunyan was serving a lengthy prison sentence for preaching
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513220349
- Language: English
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Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
$21.99 Add to cartIn the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibili- Series: Crosswicks Journals #3
- Author: L’Engle, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1504064488
- Language: English
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore-the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shel… [more below]
- Author: Buzbee, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975100
- Language: English
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Take This Man
$15.99 Read moreNamed one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 One of NBC News’s 10 Best Latino Books of 2014 “A West Coast version of Augusten Burroughs’s Running With Scissors…A funny, shocking, genero… [more below]
- Author: Skyhorse, Brando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1439170894
- Language: English
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A Path to Calm: A Mindful Guided Journal to Relieve Anxiety and Calm your Thoughts
$10.99 Add to cartAre you a person who is struggling with anxious thoughts and constant worry? Does it feel like your overthinking brain is desperate for stress relief? If so, embark on your journey to feeling more po
- Author: Wolf, Maiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1088090915
- Language: English
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
$16.95 Add to cartBorn in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a sma
- Author: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0910923949
- Language: English
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A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Loconte, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 071807923X
- Language: English
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1915-1919
$35.00 Add to cart“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf…. [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her … [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0544310373
- Language: English
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At Seventy: A Journal
$25.99 Add to cartMay Sarton–poet, novelist, and chronicler–occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine,… [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393310302
- Language: English
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History
$17.99 Add to cartA “gorgeous” (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America’s most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade – told by the inherit… [more below]
- Author: Rowbottom, Allie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0316510629
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
