Literary Figures
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Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: “…Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new … [more below]
- Author: MacNiven, Ian S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0811217302
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
$18.00 Add to cartFew artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called “an acute observer of the unmapped region s… [more below]
- Author: Scholder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136710
- Language: English
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The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews
$34.99 Add to cartA Picador Paperback Original
The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century–and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.–Margaret- Series: Paris Review Interviews #1
- Author: Gourevitch, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0312361750
- Language: English
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Cherry
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars’ Club left off, Karr dashes down the tr… [more below]
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0141002077
- Language: English
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Conversations with George Saunders
$50.00 Add to cartBesides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunde… [more below]
- Series: Literary Conversations
- Author: O’Connell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1496840305
- Language: English
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Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
$21.99 Add to cartIn the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibili- Series: Crosswicks Journals #3
- Author: L’Engle, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1504064488
- Language: English
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore-the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shel… [more below]
- Author: Buzbee, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975100
- Language: English
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1915-1919
$35.00 Add to cart“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf…. [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her … [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0544310373
- Language: English
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At Seventy: A Journal
$25.99 Add to cartMay Sarton–poet, novelist, and chronicler–occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine,… [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393310302
- Language: English
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Incest: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin (1932-1934)
$25.99 Add to cartThe continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. “It is Nin… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0156443007
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931-1935
$32.50 Add to cartThe penultimate volume of Woolf’s diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. “A book of ex… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #4
- Author: Bell, Anne O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: December 19 1983
- ISBN10: 0156260395
- Language: English
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Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2: Vol. 2 (1920-1924)
$29.99 Add to cartThe second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf’s development as a writer. “Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama… above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too muc… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #2
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0156260379
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: A Life
$34.99 Add to cartThis fascinating reassessment of America’s most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends… [more below]
- Author: Parini, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063412
- Language: English
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One Life at a Time, Please
$20.00 Add to cartFrom stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: February 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805006036
- Language: English
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In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories
$27.99 Add to cartHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan’s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multiv… [more below]
- Author: Danly, Robert Lyons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 25 2007
- ISBN10: 0393309134
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cart“[This] biography is the primary source of our knowledge of Kafka’s personal life and character, and is invaluable to anyone at all interested in the mind of the Czech genius.”–Alfred Kazin, New York… [more below]
- Author: Brod, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806703
- Language: English
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My Life and Hard Times
$15.99 Read more“Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks b
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060933089
- Language: English
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962
$18.99 Add to cart“The life she describes is heroic…yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.”– San Francisco Chronicle
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary a
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929561
- Language: English
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
$21.95 Read moreThe autobiography of New Zealand’s most significant writer
New Zealand’s preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections,- Author: Frame, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1619027887
- Language: English
