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Conversations with Gordon LishKnown 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...
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Slay in CharacterStaying 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...
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883: Volume 2Recipient 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...
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Clifford: A Memoir, a Fiction, a Fantasy, a Thought ExperimentFrom 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...
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Sex with StrangersWhen 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...
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Brown Girl DreamingAuthor: 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
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Make Me Giggle: Writing Your Own Silly StoryReady 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...
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Banarasidas Ardhakathanak: A Half StoryAuthor: 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...
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El Niño Terrible Y La Escritora Maldita / The Terrible Boy and the Damned AuthorJaime 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...
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The Inventors: A MemoirFall, 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...
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Beautiful TwentysomethingsMarek 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...
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A Son of the Middle BorderA 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...
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The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871volume 1This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of...
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A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's GeorgiaFlannery O'Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O'Connor's fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O'Connor's readers...
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics--A Collection of Written InterviewsA collection of substantial written interviews.Samuel R. Delany, whose theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy has won him a broad audience among academics and fans of postmodernist fiction, offers insights into and explorations of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black...
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Nobody's Son: Notes from an American LifeHere's a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the 'hood, hoping for the American Dream. . . . I'm not saying it's our story. I'm not saying it isn't. It might be yours. How do you tell a story...
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Katherine Mansfield: A Darker ViewThe works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a...
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Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico DesertDaniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and...
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The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins GilmanOne of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935] was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. Nearly forgotten in the years following her death, she has been the subject of renewed interest and appreciation in recent decades. Drawing from her previous...
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A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' HousesThere are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of...
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