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"Shklovsky: Witness to an Era" is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critic's life, and in the face of interference and...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the...

Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old...

Nineteenth-century America and the world of Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, come to life as children journey back in time with this history- and literature-laden activity book. The comprehensive biographical information explores Mark Twain as a multi-talented man of his times,...

Since the publication of his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) has been considered an important new voice in American literature. His seven subsequent books have done little to contradict that initial assessment, especially after 2016's The Underground Railroad spent...

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) currently reigns in the literary world as one of the most critically decorated and popular authors of the last fifty years. Perhaps best known as the writer of the Harvey, Eisner, and World Fantasy Award-winning DC/Vertigo series, The Sandman, Gaiman...

This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews here...

Known as "Captain Fiction," Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential--and controversial--figures in modern American letters. As an editor at Esquire (1969-1977), Alfred A. Knopf (1977-1994), and The Quarterly (1987-1995) and as a teacher both in and outside the university system, he...

Staying in character can be murder when Cat Latimer and the members of her writers' retreat head for a ghost town . . . Cat and the members of her writers' retreat have just arrived in Outlaw, Colorado, an "Old West" tourist town complete...

Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's committee on scholarly editions This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883 includes 178 letters, 98 of which are published for the first time, written from November 1, 1881, to January...

From the bestselling author of Firewater comes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Indigenous community for his brother...

When star sex blogger and memoirist Ethan, 24, tracks down his idol, the gifted but obscure 40ish novelist Olivia, he finds they each crave what the other possesses. As attraction turns to sex, and they inch closer to getting what they want, both must...

Author: Jacqueline WoodsonPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 09/06/2017Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.20lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9781432843151Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.3Point Value: 5Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 168140 / Brown Girl DreamingThis title is only available via back order

Ready to build a silly story? First, you'll need the right tools. Open this title in the Writer's Toolbox series and discover plenty of tips and tools to get you started. Soon you'll be making readers giggle like a proAuthor: Nancy LoewenPublisher: Picture Window...

Author: Rohini ChowdhuryPublisher: India Penguin ClassicsPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 7.79h x 5.19w x 0.90dISBN: 9780143100546About the AuthorBanarasidas was a poet, philosopher and merchant. He had no precedent in literature or tradition that might have inspired him to write his life's story or...

Jaime Bayly, periodista, escritor, ni o terrible de la televisi n, bisexual, divorciado, padre de dos hijas, con novio fuera del cl set, se enamora repentinamente de Luc a Santamar a, una estudiante de psicolog a de apenas veinte a os que sue a...

Fall, 1970. At the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who'd arrived from Oxford in Frye boots, with long hair, and a passion for his students that was intense and unorthodox. The son of an emotionally remote...

Dr. Seuss is known as the creator of some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Journey to the fantastic world he created in this appealing story about the author/illustrator whose magical, rhyming characters have delighted children of all ages.Author: Maryann N....

Marek Hlasko's literary autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of the life of a young writer in 1950s Poland and a fascinating portrait of the ultimately short-lived rebel generation. Told in a voice suffused with grit and morbid humor, Hlasko's memoir was a classic...

A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who--informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie--would become a preeminent American writer of the early...