Literary Figures
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The Art of the Wasted Day
$22.00 Add to cart“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history’s champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, “Fresh Air”
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of l- Author: Hampl, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0143132881
- Language: English
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Logical Family: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”–Neil Gaiman
“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decad
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062391259
- 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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The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda: Japan’s Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet: Includes a Translation of Santoka’s Diary of the One-Grass Hu
$19.99 Add to cartThe fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.
Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan’s most beloved modern poets, famous for hi- Author: Oyama, Sumita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 4805316551
- Language: English
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
$21.95 Add to cartThe 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
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$19.99 Add to cart“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
–Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as… [more below]- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1612197795
- Language: English
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300 Arguments
$16.00 Read more“Jam-packed with insights you’ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin….A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.”–Celeste Ng, author of Littl
- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977642
- Language: English
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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey
$19.00 Add to cartIn a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independe… [more below]
- Author: Kuusisto, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1451689802
- Language: English
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
$19.99 Add to cartIn this inspiring memoir–that Jane Fonda raves “will make you braver…want to live your life better and make a difference”–the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Cra… [more below]
- Author: Cleage, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1451664702
- Language: English
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At Home in the World
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of Labor Day
When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard’s memoir broke a silence concern- Author: Maynard, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250046440
- Language: English
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
$35.00 Add to cartCyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been … [more below]
- Author: Connolly, Cyril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 27 2005
- ISBN10: 089255410X
- Language: English
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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of th
- Author: Prentiss, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0826355919
- Language: English
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Savage Gods
$15.95 Read more* Chicago Tribune “Fall literary preview: books you need to read now”
* Vulture “The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall”
* The Guardian “A best book of 2019”
After moving with his wife and two chil- Author: Kingsnorth, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1937512851
- Language: English
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My Fairy-Tale Life
$19.99 Add to cartHans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 1… [more below]
- Series: Dark Masters
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1907650571
- Language: English
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The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartFarah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir.
Farah Ahmedi’s “poignant tale of survival” (Chicago Tribune) chro- Author: Ahmedi, Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 141691837X
- Language: English
