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Dead Languages by David Shields 9781555972745
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.10All of the passages of Jeremy Zorn's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his strange attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his mother is dying that he realizes... -
The Very Last Interview by David Shields
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376424Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
Booksplease Price: $16.96Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up... -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by Professor David Shields
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387974Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields 9780393339369
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The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255193Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention by David Shields 9781949759051
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $15.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949759051Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint -
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season David Shields 9781496242211
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire,... -
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields 9780141049496
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season by David Shields 9780803293540
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire... -
The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog by David Shields
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $58.052023 50 Books | 50 Covers Award, The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) 2024 Honorable Mention, Design Awards, Graphis 2024 Finalist, Typography Competition, Communication Arts Magazine A... -
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields 9780393341959
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time... -
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 by Will Ashon 9780571364152
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising... -
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays by Gay Talese
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Gay Talese is the father... -
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The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane 9780241978313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $3.87Booksplease Price: $2.55From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act... -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: $3.87Booksplease Price: $3.68From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act... -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 9780141049267
Booksplease Price: $10.28A funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeFranny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole... -
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The International No. 1 Bestseller A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be... -
Woman Pissing by Elizabeth Cooperman 9781496231444
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a... -
Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction by Dr. Margot Singer 9781501386077
Booksplease Price: $123.18Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies... -
The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work by Andrea Barrett 9780393325324
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.52This big, beautiful anthology of short fiction is for readers, writers, and anyone curious about the mysterious processes of literary minds. All contributors have been recent faculty members of the... -
Going to the Tigers: Essays and Exhortations by Robert Cohen
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.52In this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practice-from how to rant effectively as... -
World Outside the Window: Selected Essays by Bradford Morrow 9780811210249
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called "an... -
Home Movies by Michael Wheaton 9798987589021
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author's hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay's seven sections,... -
Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death by Sallie Tisdale
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable... -
Doctor by Andrew Bomback
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a... -
Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age by David Lazar
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.29Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser... -
Our Last Year by Alan Rossi 9781913513269
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.56Our Last Year is a book about change; through the internal narration of its two characters, the novel follows the disintegration and renewal of a marriage, in synthesis with a much wider natural... -
For Emma Ewan Morrison 9781914090950
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.39"A masterpiece ... the eminent fiction writer of our times" - Irvine Welsh "Ewan Morrison's harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. A worthy... -
Movieola by John Domini 9781938103902
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.74Movieola is a collection of linked short stories that delights and exploits the language and paraphernalia of industrial Hollywood. The collection delves into a night at the movies, featuring all the... -
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by 9780099584254
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'All Italy is here' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from... -
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by 9780099584254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.98'All Italy is here' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from... -
Zona: On Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' Geoff Dyer 9780857861672
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In this spellbinding book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all... -
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence Lee Siegel 9780300244540
Booksplease Price: $17.00A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be... -
Mountain Road, Late at Night by Alan Rossi
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.80'One to watch in 2020' - Irish Times'An extraordinary debut for an extraordinary new talent' -- Frederick Barthelme, author of There Must Be Some Mistake Nicholas and his wife April live in a remote... -
Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt 9780062569981
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.27Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for WritingA physical and philosophical mediation on why we are drawn to fight each other for sport, what happens to our bodies and brains when... -
Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt
Booksplease Price: $16.15Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for WritingA physical and philosophical mediation on why we are drawn to fight each other for sport, what happens to our bodies and brains when... -
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Kim Adrian 9781496201973
Booksplease Price: $21.25Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the...