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"Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters" gathers both classic and never-before-published essays from one of the leading stylists in contemporary American letters, and one of our more revered public intellectuals, Paul Robinson. Diverse and elegant, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393886184Author Robert S LevineImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1520g

The inaugural book of Wave's new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, who has intersected with the most influential movements of late...

A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.About the AuthorTerry Castle has taught at Stanford since 1983. She has written five books ranging from Masquerade and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644284117Author Joseph Di PriscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rare Bird BooksPublisher Rare Bird BooksDimensions(mm) 139mm * 215mm * 13mm

Although best known as a master of the formal lyric poem, Louise Bogan (1897-1970) also published fiction and what would now be called lyrical essays. A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan showcases her devotion to compression, eloquence, and...

Westward expansion on the North American continent by European settlers generated a flurry of writings on the frontier experience over the course of a hundred years. Asserting that the dominant ideology of America's Manifest Destiny embodied a tense,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062362285Author Allen GinsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 544g

Although best known as a poet, Langston Hughes was also the author of two novels that richly evoke the black experience in America. First published in 1930 and 1958, respectively, Not without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory reflect the early and late...

William Troy (1903-1961) was a highly regarded literary critic during the 1930s and 1940s. Among his contemporaries, he ranked with Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, and F. O. Matthiessen. Indeed, in the preface to the posthumous, 1968 publication of his...

The Astonishment Tapes is the edited transcript of revealing autobio graphical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry.Robin Blaser...

Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism's dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions:...

American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors - particularly those of Texas and the Southwest - and includes readings representative of a broad array of American social and ethnic groups from first contact to early...

The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a masterpiece, a canonical work. But that assessment is at...

American Homes by Ryan Ridge is a satirical exploration of the modern American home and its symbolic role in culture, identity, and society. Blending humor, wit, and sharp social commentary, the book dissects domestic spaces-attics, basements, kitchens,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393886122Author Robert S LevineImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 25mm

We first meet Lucy Appelbaum, the heroine of Paradise, New York, in 1970, as a nine-year-old girl enjoying her family's Catskills hotel, the Garden of Eden. Ten years later, having found nothing else at which she can distinguish herself, Lucy tries to...

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609388874Author Timothy FayFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 652g

This uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Thomas Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery through the words of great artists and then-admired...

This is the first volume of the autobiography of Langston Hughes, covering the years up to 1931. Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions...

HARLAN COBEN PICKS THE YEAR'S BEST CRIME WRITING Hand-picked by number one bestselling author Harlan Coben, this definitive anthology showcases the best of this year's crime-writing, from the masters of modern suspense and the stars of the future alike...

A major reinterpretation, T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons takes Eliot at his word in his reiterated statements that The Waste Land was not a "criticism of the contemporary world" but a personal "grouse against life." It is the...

Called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese and "the roots" in Esquire's garden of contemporary literature, and named one of Writer's Digest's "Nineteen Magazines That Matter," Prairie Schooner-one of the oldest and most prestigious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275752Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution - in Jimmy Breslin's words, 'the best journalist of his time'. "Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to pore over online and print literary journals, magazines, books, plays, and graphic novels. They read things they...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. Humor and heart move the fast-paced journey of an unlikely pair coming together to form a family of their own in this touching story from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. Bea has barely been...

Radical leftist stories...for children In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450028Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 1380Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm)...

The great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544582941Author Roxane GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 23mm

A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027145Author David MarksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997253139Author Christian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint East Wind PressPublisher East Wind PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

David Remnick is a man much praised for his powers of observation, description and analysis, and Reporting contains his very best pieces from his first fifteen years as editor of The New Yorker. Here is Remnick on Don DeLillo, Philip Roth and The...

Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics- a charge that became conventional wisdom-this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394713489Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544817340Author Hilton AlsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 290g

Robert Frost's poetry has triumphantly survived him, but most readers today have not known him in one of his most significant capacities-as teacher and lecturer. Here, collected for the first time, are excerpts from forty-six of his presentations...