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Shimmering Details, Volume II: A MemoirThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents' lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956...
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His TimeJack 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 central to his...
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Shimmering Details, Volume I: A MemoirThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. "Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others," Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his illuminating memoir,...
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Furniture MusicIn Furniture Music, Montreal luminary Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art.Immersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Mark's Poetry Project and...
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Clarice Lispector - EncontrosClarice Lispector, Ukrainian naturalized Brazilian, is today rated as one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. Although she was discreet about her personal life, Clarice gave great interviews interviews, where she exposed her ideas on literature and existential and existential concerns. This...
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The Mystery WriterThere's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be trueWhen Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few...
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In the Hush of the NightFrom the New York Times bestselling author and former James Bond novelist comes a gritty, riveting tale of modern crime, featuring a female FBI agent embroiled in a Russian human trafficking case. Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young...
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H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (Loa #257): Happy Days / Newspaper Days / Heathen Days / Days Revisited: Unpublished CommentaryA major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in...
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Teffi: A Life of Letters and of LaughterTeffi was one of twentieth century Russia's most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people - from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin - and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were...
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Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences"You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, 'What'd you do with your life?' And me being like, 'Well, I sold a...
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Wang Kuo-Wei: An Intellectual BiographyIn this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang's intimate, thirty-year personal and...
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The Brontës of Haworth Moor: How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revolutionary Novelists of Their TimeA fascinating look into the Brontë sisters' lives and how they achieved their childhood dreams of being published authors. In 1820, the Brontë family traveled to their new home on the edge of Haworth Moor. There, the Brontë sisters and their brother were given...
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My Life in Paper: Adventures in EphemeraPaper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates--we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart's memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave. Kephart's obsession with paper began in...
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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan PoeOver 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated...
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One Kiss AloneEthan Penn-Leith is the most renowned poet of his day-his likeness so widely recognized, he is regularly accosted by adoring admirers. Everyone wants something from him-his time, words, charm, torn bits of his kilt . . . Everyone, that is, but Lady Allegra Gilbert....
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Among Others: Friendships and EncountersA unique memoir of a lifetime'srelationships - from one of Britain's most beloved literary companions.It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a briefword, looking back on life from his ninetieth...
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African BoyThe Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded as Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-1980) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village...
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Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical ExodusGoodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore's collection of personal essays chronicling two simultaneous transformations. One is the gathering of unconnected--and nonpolitical--evangelical congregations across the nation into the political juggernaut called the Religious Right; the other is the author's own coming to...
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Floor Sample: A Creative MemoirFloor Sample is a memoir from the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron... Julia Cameron has transformed the creative lives of millions, showing them that creativity is their uniquely human birthright. But long before the tools of The Artist's Way changed the conversation around creativity,...
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Self-Portrait in Green: 10th Anniversary EditionWho are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend's father). And they are unbearably personal (one is the author's own mother). They...
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