Literary Figures
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North Toward Home
$21.00 Add to cartWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724605
- Language: English
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Traversal
$36.00 Add to cartFrom the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life.
In Traversal, her startling and moving new book, Maria Popova traverses the border- Author: Popova, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374616418
- Language: English
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Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
$35.00 Add to cartAn unflinching, brilliantly written, darkly funny, lavishly illustrated memoir by the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time A ringing testament about how one artist see… [more below]
- Author: Haddon, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0385551894
- Language: English
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Literary Gardens: The Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets
$26.00 Add to cartGardens both real and imagined have long captured our imaginations. They are places of mystery and magic, beauty and danger, romance and revelation; writers have used them to reflect longing and creat
- Author: Lawrence, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836002203
- Language: English
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cart“If Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.” ―Ian McEwan
A stylish new paperback edition of HITCH-22, the incendiary memoir of a brilliant contrarian and one of Hitchens’ most- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 044654034X
- Language: English
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Meticulously researched.” —The New York Times
“A first-rate biography.” —Washington Post
A lively and intimate biogr
- Author: Reading, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 006327857X
- Language: English
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
$22.50 Add to cartThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write
- Author: Geltner, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970370
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$18.00 Add to cartAt her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English–but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0679766766
- Language: English
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An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year
$35.00 Add to cartCelebrate animals with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year.
From beloved pets to majestic wildlife, and even the first dog in space, animals have long been a source- Author: McMorland Hunter, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1837330018
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the pa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Shields, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035169
- Language: English
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A Man Without a Country: 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThe last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies
This 20th ann- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214881
- Language: English
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The Complete Notebooks
$45.00 Read moreThe first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.
Throughout his career, French writer and p- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 022669481X
- Language: English
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Travels with Agatha Christie
$28.00 Add to cartIn Travels With Agatha Christie, the celebrated Poirot actor replicates an international expedition which Agatha Chirstie undertook herself in the 1920s. Travelling to the stunning landscapes of Canad… [more below]
- Author: Suchet, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1408723921
- Language: English
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Tradecraft: Writers on John Le Carr?
$45.00 Add to cartOriginal insights on John le Carr? by the people who worked with him, illuminating the storied writer’s working methods.
John le Carr? is one of the most significant political novelists in the English
- Author: Varese, Federico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246487
- Language: English
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Small Town Author
$26.95 Add to cartMore than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited t
- Series: Voice in the American West
- Author: Erickson, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832546
- Language: English
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
$24.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
In the first biography of the iconic David Fo- Author: Max, D. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0147509726
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English
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Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage
$24.50 Add to cartKnown for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, L?szl? Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, … [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0857425331
- Language: English
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?mile Zola: A Determined Life
$38.00 Add to cartNuanced and insightful, a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and times of the celebrated French literary polymath.
?mile Zola is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers, who- Author: Lethbridge, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390173
- Language: English
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Roman Year: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
In Roman Year, Andr? Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that beg- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397685
- Language: English
