Literary Figures
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What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of A Three Dog Life–an exhilarating, superbly written memoir on friendship, family, creativity, tragedy, and the richness of life: “If you only r
- Author: Thomas, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476785066
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures That Inspired Frank Herbert
$35.00 Read more“An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation.”
Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become
– Empire Magazine- Author: Huddleston, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711282110
- Language: English
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
“I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O’Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her lett- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374521042
- Language: English
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Small Memories
$13.95 Add to cart“Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer.”–Washington Post
Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0547752636
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
A St. Louis Post Dispat… [more below]- Author: Dearborn, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 052556361X
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
$23.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collec… [more below]
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 059331848X
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$18.00 Add to cartIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980301
- Language: English
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Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
$29.99 Add to cartExperience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik’s divinely inspired artwork firsthand.
Akiane’s nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams
- Author: Kramarik, Akiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0718075862
- Language: English
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – A “A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book” (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. – From… [more below]
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375725784
- Language: English
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Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures
$22.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia’s most controversial figures This is how E- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074835
- Language: English
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Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Hunter S. Thompson’s crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America–and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-crac- Author: DeNevi, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541768019
- Language: English
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cart“A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.”–Entertainment Weekly
The revered New York Times bestselling author of Ho
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0063021722
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
$30.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings–the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158528
- Language: English
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Population: 485
$17.99 Add to cart“Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle Times
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0061363502
- Language: English
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Letters to Véra
$25.00 Add to cartNo marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to V?ra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasur… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0307476588
- Language: English
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey’s wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little bo- Author: Dery, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316188549
- Language: English
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The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir
$28.95 Add to cartGrowing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring, and mercurial
- Author: Gilman, Priscilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0393651320
- Language: English
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Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
$18.00 Add to cartA “touchstone for aspiring artists and writers” (Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life.
Renowned American- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1476740984
- Language: English
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One Writer’s Beginnings
$18.00 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American le… [more below]
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982152109
- Language: English
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Hope Against Hope: Introduction by Maria Stepanova
$32.00 Read moreNadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of life with her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the most moving testaments to the value of literature… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 110190836X
- Language: English
