Literary Figures
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Before Night Falls: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cart“Any attempt to reckon with Cuba’s torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas’s monumental work … an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience.” –… [more below]
- Author: Arenas, Reinaldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140157654
- Language: English
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
$25.00 Add to cartThe first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras’ illustrious oeuvre
“I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1738901343
- Language: English
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
$28.00 Add to cartA biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividl- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300256582
- Language: English
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
$19.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
The prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice i- Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 014312997X
- Language: English
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
$37.00 Add to cartHow does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cult… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217170111
- Language: English
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Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life
$29.99 Add to cartDevouring Time is the definitive biography of Jim Harrison–one of America’s most beloved writers–and a penetrating deep dive into the life of the talent behind Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and True N
- Author: Goddard, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1799902366
- Language: English
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
$40.00 Add to cartA long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.
In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends.- Author: Jusdanis, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0374610428
- Language: English
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
$35.00 Add to cartHow does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cult… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 038554751X
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$22.00 Add to cart*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book*
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York T- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250354587
- Language: English
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Making Toast: A Family Story
$15.99 Add to cart“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.”
–E. L. Doctorow
A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner,
- Author: Rosenblatt, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825956
- Language: English
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The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces
$23.00 Add to cartExploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.
Marianne Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going
- Author: Boruch, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1556596944
- Language: English
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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.
Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like A- Author: Kernan, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374281173
- Language: English
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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
$19.99 Add to cart“I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir abo
- Author: Brorby, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096780
- Language: English
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
$22.00 Add to cartA Time Must-Read Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the l- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390400
- Language: English
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The Key to Everything: May Swenson, a Writer’s Life
$29.95 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet
May Swenson (1913-1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of t- Author: Brucia, Margaret a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0691247234
- Language: English
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto t
- Author: Flynn, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105372
- Language: English
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The World According to Joan Didion
$18.99 Add to cart**INDIE BESTSELLER**
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions – B&N Best Books of 2023 – “Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace … McDonnell’s portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive,
- Author: McDonnell, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0063419157
- Language: English
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer–struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction–and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenti
- Author: Leadbeater, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371588
- Language: English
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On Elizabeth Bishop
$16.95 Add to cartA compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today’s most acclaimed novelists
In this book, novelist Colm T?ib?n offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most im- Series: Writers on Writers #7
- Author: TóibÃn, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271046
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures
$31.99 Add to cartEatonville, Florida native Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes. It considers f… [more below]
- Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1540213110
- Language: English
