Literary Figures
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Festival Days
$17.99 Add to cartA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Jo Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0316497223
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Cats: Revised Cuba Edition
$14.95 Add to cartThe 2nd edition–now with more stories about Hemingway’s Cuban dogs.
- Author: Brennen, Carlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649627
- Language: English
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene
$28.95 Read more“One of the Year’s Best,” Times Literary Supplement
When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new frien- Author: Mewshaw, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 156792719X
- Language: English
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
$30.00 Add to cartFrom internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring–and surviving–an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was… [more below]
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593913655
- Language: English
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises
$21.99 Add to cart“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.
- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944437
- Language: English
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
$20.99 Add to cartThe Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet. It challenges
- Author: Derricotte, Toi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319016
- Language: English
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Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me
$27.00 Read moreA staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet
When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old c
- Author: Calhoun, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159788
- Language: English
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
$18.99 Add to cartLuis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano… [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 141658417X
- Language: English
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Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway’s Wyoming Summers with Pauline
$18.99 Add to cart“Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden’s Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming–and I can think of no finer c… [more below]
- Author: Worden, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608986
- Language: English
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The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World
$22.99 Add to cartStep into the extraordinary life of the man who made an impact as an observer wherever he lived, and went on to become the leading western interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture–a position he stil… [more below]
- Author: Kemme, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317604
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
$31.95 Add to cart* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture *
Acclaimed as “the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien” (A. N. Wilson), this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on
- Author: Garth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618574816
- Language: English
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
$16.00 Add to cart“An utterly charming and engaging travel book that offers vivid portraits of unusual corners of Asia, told by a skilled raconteur whose eyes were open wide.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Warned by- Author: Terzani, Tiziano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2002
- ISBN10: 060980958X
- Language: English
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
$20.00 Add to cartWandering through Paris’s Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited hi… [more below]
- Author: Mercer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0312347405
- Language: English
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Love’s Work
$16.95 Add to cartLove’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love,… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173651
- Language: English
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Act One: An Autobiography
$25.00 Add to cartMoss Hart’s Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled wit… [more below]
- Author: Hart, Moss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050898
- Language: English
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Nature’s People: The Hog Island Story from Mabel Loomis Todd to Audubon
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister learned of a cache of unknown poems which she was determined to see published. In time the task fell to Mabel Loomis Todd, a socialite in town who just so
- Author: Schaefer, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1959096532
- Language: English
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In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
$16.95 Add to cartWhether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 0679760237
- Language: English
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The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
$16.00 Add to cartA brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0399576002
- Language: English
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@ [Squiggle] [Star]!
$25.00 Read moreThis legendary 1978 collection of comics by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling Maus, presents the seminal early works that changed how comics are made and appreciated to… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 037571538X
- Language: English
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Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey
$24.00 Add to cartOne of The Guardian‘s Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend.
The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1609452925
- Language: English
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