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You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures by Alan Cumming
RRP: $38.90$29.74If you were to put David Sedaris and Glenn O'Brien in a blender and add a dash of New York and Hollywood gossip, you would wind up with Alan Cumming. Described by Time magazine as one of the most fun people in show business, Cumming is a... -
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $50.68$42.98The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and... -
Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time by Paul Maher, Jr. 9781589796874
RRP: $58.50$41.63Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: $31.18$23.42This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: $19.48$6.84From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $27.30$19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702780Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation by William T. Stafford 9780472873005
RRP: $33.05$27.46Writing the Australian Crawl presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing-a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with... -
About Writing by Samuel R. Delany 9780819567161
RRP: $42.80$36.62Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid... -
If Animals Could Talk by Carla Butwin
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621066118Author Carla ButwinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Bukowski, a Life: The Centennial Edition by Neeli Cherkovski
RRP: $27.28$18.84The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator. Neeli Cherkovski began a deep friendship with Bukowski in the... -
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin 9780691188911
RRP: $48.75$37.40A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a... -
A Ring Of Conspirators: Henry James And His Literary Circle, 1895-1915 by Miranda Seymour 9780743232203
RRP: $19.48$12.50Henry James left London in 1897 to spend the last two decades of his life in East Sussex where his neighbours included H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad. In this widely admired study Miranda Seymour aims to cut through 'the mass... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes
RRP: $25.33$17.73In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: $33.13$22.76WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
RRP: $21.43$15.03Billy Collins is one of the world's most popular poets. While his poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, fans know that they might end anywhere - and that they will lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 by John N. Duvall 9780521123471
RRP: $44.83$44.56Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second... -
I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana 9780847846863
RRP: $35.00$25.97The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of the most brilliant critics writing in America today, Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has... -
The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry David Thoreau 9780226624969
RRP: $23.40$19.81"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Mark Twain 9780486489230
RRP: $16.56$11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486489230Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm)... -
The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved by Theo Tait 9781911187059
RRP: $11.68$9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
$42.78This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers 9780804741088
RRP: $78.00$68.87In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers-in spite of the almost total academic... -
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Four: Poetry 1903-1920, Prose, and Unpublished Writings by Robinson Jeffers
RRP: $165.75$144.59Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. Jeffers... -
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature by Kevin Pelletier 9780820339481
RRP: $83.75$68.48In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be... -
Scotland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Garry MacKenzie 9781784536411
RRP: $33.13$25.08With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels of... -
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke 9781902669700
RRP: $25.33$22.76Austin Clarke's classic story of British colonial education is the subject of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. It is the story of a boy whose mother struggled against seemingly impossible odds to give her son the best available education... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody
RRP: $40.93$35.76The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice. The... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: $48.73$41.40In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: $23.38$18.95Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary... -
The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams by David L. Walker 9780691612508
RRP: $58.50$44.50Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the... -
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade 9780156030595
RRP: $42.88$32.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030595Author Marion MeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books -
Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape by W Ralph Eubanks 9781604699586
RRP: $48.75$37.13"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created."... -
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $72.05$60.00Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: $33.05$26.40Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others... -
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 by Dianne C. Luce 9781643363554
RRP: $58.40$47.05Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be... -
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Jeffrey J. Kripal
RRP: $46.80$40.01In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,"... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $17.53$11.86When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition,... -
The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Joseph Urbas
RRP: $77.98$68.37This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book, Emerson's Metaphysics, and like... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
$61.46The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their...