Literary Figures
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
$36.99 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of 2012
From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, As Conscious- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024129
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$19.00 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible caus- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250792517
- Language: English
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El Pez En El Agua / A Fish in Water: A Memoir
$31.95 Read moreEDICI?N ESPECIAL 30. ANIVERSARIO
El libro m?s autobiogr?fico de Vargas Llosa: la memoria del surgimiento de sus vocaciones literaria y pol?tica.
«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado form… [more below]- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 8420475424
- Language: Spanish
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Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life
$29.99 Add to cartA rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.
An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies–thos- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009633
- Language: English
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Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
$21.95 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING CREATIVE NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW” 2018
1885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year-old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Tole
- Author: Metcalf McConnell, Miantae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0997877006
- Language: English
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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
$27.00 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
$18.99 Add to cartNamed 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
