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Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most admired and controversial poets, the translator of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422547Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250619464Author John WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942607823Author Bob NickasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint KarmaPublisher Karma

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926972374Author Kathy PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060750923Author Robin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture. In Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, "We no longer have the learning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374148850Author Lydia DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978235Author Eula BissFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 18mm

Intrigued by the romance of his own parents, who met in Washington Square Park, Ariel Sabar set off on a far-reaching search for other couples who married after first meeting in one of New York City's iconic public spaces. Sabar conjures their big-city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497880733Author B C ForbesFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 381g

Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two...

Ducornet's work grounds and is the matriarch to a younger generation of edgy, feminist women writers concerned with the body, the erotic, the alchemy of creativity, and art-she is the precursor to Maggie Nelson and others, and should animate their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363288Author Kim MahoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250862969Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040720Author Jim ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250858825Author Lydia DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455502783Author Christopher HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953002310Author Lynne Sharon SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Delphinium BooksPublisher Delphinium BooksWeight(grams) 646g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450635Author Claudia RankineFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802159304Author Martin SolaresFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316013321Author David Foster WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

In this stunning collection of prison writing, dozens of incarcerated men share poems, stories, and essays that celebrate the power of the written word.For more than ten years, Chris Belden ran a weekly creative writing workshop at a maximum-security...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063043862Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532338Author Professor Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119729Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney'sPublisher McSweeney'sWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 216mm * 8mm

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476785219Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110255Author Zadie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 140g

A critic's notebook on sparkle and spectacle. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism byAtlanticwriters, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.A collection of essays on musicians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063043855Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780063092785Author Ann PatchettFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312193Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063230132Author Jen SorianoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life. When he died in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316076203Author Malcolm GladwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422165Author Jonathan FrantzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Both a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean-Philippe Toussaint here collects a series of short essays on the art of writing, both his own and that of writers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334826Author Gayatri Kalra SehgalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this collection is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and ruminations on subjects encompassing matters of theatre and poetry, two subjects very close to...