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The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994From the renowned novelist and critic, an exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and '90s, tracking a young, gay author's literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis In 1983, Thomas Mallon was still unknown. A literature professor at Vassar College,...
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The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto"He was precocious, alert, intelligent, brash, challenging, irreverent, literary, self-conscious, insecure, often ostentatiously crude, sometimes insufferable," Wallace Stegner says of Bernard DeVoto, who, in the words of a childhood acquaintance, was also "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Between the disagreeable boy...
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Talon d'Achille: RecitComment poursuivre une vie rompue? Tout s'ecroule a l'automne 1942 pour Helene Waysbord, alors agee de 6 ans: ses parents sont deportes, elle, cachee a la campagne. La petite fille a la vie sauve mais l'identite brisee. Seule la nuit demeure, avec Homere pour...
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Season in ParadiseBreytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and mythologies of Africa, but in reality his homeland is an often hellish region...
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Conversations with the Conroys: Interviews with Pat Conroy and His FamilyA New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy's writings have been rooted in...
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A Savage LifeRadio legend Michael Savage reveals the man behind the microphone, sharing his extraordinary American journey and the adventures that shaped him.**FEATURING EXCLUSIVE, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED NEW MATERIAL**For twenty-five years, Michael Savage has captivated listeners on his national radio show The Savage Nation, which reaches a loyal...
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Places of My InfancyGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's brief but brilliant writing career lasted a mere two years before he succumbed to lung cancer. In that time he produced one novel (The Leopard), three stories, and the beginning of a memoir, Places of my Infancy - a "tour"...
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Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of AmericaIn this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes...
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Jill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian LifePerformer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 1970s feminism. She was the first critic to identify postmodernism's arrival in American dance and was a fierce advocate for the importance of lesbians within feminism. In...
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How to Change History: A Salvage ProjectIn How to Change History Robin Hemley grapples with the individual's navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories. In an attempt to restore, resurrect, and reclaim what might otherwise be lost, Hemley meditates and speculates on photography, scrapbooks, historical markers,...
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Trash Fish: A LifeTrash Fish is the story of a boy who gives himself over to his obsession with fish as an escape from the trials of growing up. Time and again, as his life unfolds to reveal his failings and foibles to those around him, he...
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1888-1891: Volume 1This first volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1888-1891 contains 171 letters, of which 119 are published for the first time, written from late November 1888 to April 20, 1890. These letters continue to mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for...
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Sometimes the GirlEighteen-year-old Holiday needs to sort her life out. She's still shaken from her brother's recent suicide attempt; still pining over her ex, Maya; and still struggling to write again after a long dry spell. To earn enough money for a rebalancing trip with Maya,...
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John Barleycorn: Alcoholic MemoirsPublished in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics...
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Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, ReappraisalsThis long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the...
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Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, ReappraisalsThis long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the...
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Straw in the Sun: A Memoir"Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there, and now and then there grew a persimmon shoot, or a small hickory, where a nut had fallen and opened deep...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky-Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and CriticismFyodor Dostoevsky--Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849), the third and final volume on the writer's childhood, adolescence, and youth, seeks to disclose, in a detailed and intimate way, Dostoevsky's last two years before his exile to Siberia. Together with the first two volumes, it attempts to...
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter MemoirHow her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrowJennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's...
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Small Town AuthorMore than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited the fruits of those labors, whether they be...
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