Literary Figures
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Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
$32.50 Add to cartAn account of Woolf’s life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. “Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose…make this a most valuable and pleasurable book” (Publishers… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #03
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260387
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
$18.00 Add to cartA feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
Deborah Levy’s vital litera- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397731
- Language: English
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Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
$16.95 Add to cartAllen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman -among the other things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Pod… [more below]
- Author: Podhoretz, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554171
- Language: English
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life
$30.00 Add to cart“Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age.” –Cal Newport,
- Author: Currey, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250824524
- Language: English
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Chosen Forever
$17.99 Add to cartIn the heartwarming sequel to Chosen by a Horse, Susan Richards tells of the continuing gifts brought to her life by her beloved horse, Lay Me Down.
Readers cried with Susan Richards when, at the end o… [more below]
- Author: Richards, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 015603302X
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards–now wi
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year- Series: Toni Morrison Lecture
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278083
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
$16.99 Add to cartSpiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author’s seminary days, early ministry, and writing career.–James Merrill, author of Changing Light at Sandover
- Author: Buechner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0060611820
- Language: English
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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art
$35.00 Add to cartPlaywright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays–including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson–that chronicle the lives of Black Amer… [more below]
- Series: Regional
- Author: Glasco, Laurence A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0822948540
- Language: English
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Come to Dinner: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
$14.99 Add to cart“An icon, unmasked. A friendship, unforgettable.”
A rare, revelatory portrait of Joan Didion–told not thr
Didion, like you’ve never seen her–this memoir could have easily been titled EAT. PRAY. JOAN.- Author: Davidson, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798998722387
- Language: English
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
$35.00 Add to cartBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback
- Author: Streitfeld, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063234882
- Language: English
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Light and Thread
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English–a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.
In this light-filled and multi-facete- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155033
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$19.00 Add to cartAn expansive, illuminating, and “welcome addition to understand” (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood–from the author… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982185805
- Language: English
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Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartIn her most innovative book yet, Molly Gaudry embarks on a search for belonging amid loss, framing her memoir around a fictional narrative featuring the tea house woman–a character who appeared first
- Author: Gaudry, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1941628370
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0307743845
- Language: English
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938
$15.99 Add to cartMary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American C… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0156447878
- Language: English
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Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
$23.99 Add to cartOne of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. His best-selling novels such as Carrie, It, Christine, and many others have captur
- Author: Rogak, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603509
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
$21.00 Add to cartFrom rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)–the women who inspired Jane Austen–that… [more below]
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1982190256
- Language: English
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
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Joe Gould’s Secret
$19.00 Add to cartJoseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375708049
- Language: English
