Essays Books
Picador USA What About the Baby
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched virtuoso of language and image (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermott's pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing.From technical advice (check that your verbs aren't burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds) to setting the bar (I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction that it is written with no other incentive than that it must be written), from the demands of readers (they'd been given a story with a baby in it, and they damn well wanted that baby accounted for) to the foibles of public life (I've never subscribed to the notion that a film adaptation is the final imprimatur for a work of fiction, despite how ofte
£14.45
Picador USA Essays Two
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called a magician of self-consciousness by Jonathan Franzen and the best prose stylist in America by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, representations of Jesus, early tourist photographs, and much more. Essays Two collects Davis's writings and talks on her second profession: the art of translation. The award-winning translator from the French reflects on her experience translating Proust (A work of creation in its own right. Claire Messud, Newsday), Madame Bovary ([Flaubert's] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves. Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review), and Michel Leiris (Magnificent. Tim Watson, Public Books). She also makes an extended visi
£19.55
Picador USA The Unwritten Book
Book SynopsisOne of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the human heart with courageous abandon . . . An intoxicating blend of humor and pathos. Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe Eerie, profound, and daring, this is a book only the inimitable Hunt could write.Adrienne Westenfeld, EsquireFrom Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond I carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my deadthose things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am. A genre-bending wo
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Flatiron Books Authentic
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WW Norton & Co The Art of Voice
Book SynopsisAn award-winning poet, teacher, and “champion of poetry” (New York Times) demystifies the elusive element of voice.Trade Review"Tony Hoagland offers us in his poetry one of the most distinctive voices of our time. Now, in this last work of criticism he completed, he gives us a book focused directly on how a poetic voice is created, how the poet establishes a vivid personality who seems to be standing behind every line, and how in the course of the poem the poet manages to close the distance between speaker and reader to create an intimate bond. Everyone who cares about poetry will profit from this practical and luminous book." -- Carl Dennis"Tony Hoagland was one of our greatest masters of the nuances, complexities, and vagaries of poetic voice. His seductive, deeply moving poems are, as he liked to say, ‘connective,’ beginning in conversation and aspiring to intimacy between a poem’s speaker and its reader. In The Art of Voice, Hoagland meditates on the possibilities available to those who would also aspire to poetic voice…This is a brilliant book by one of this country’s foremost poets." -- Kevin Prufer"Tony Hoagland’s rich scholarly savvy is tethered to the passion of a poet who lived as a poetry teacher. His breezy explications double as intimate, straightforward musings. His insights about audience and tone double as insights about how we speak to one another. The Art of Voice offers poetry as a life force, a means of humanizing a complex world. We are lucky to be left with this work of scrutinizing care and instruction." -- Terrance Hayes"In one of the last critical endeavors of his life, Tony Hoagland lends his extensive Apollonian critical dexterity to answering questions about what makes the who of a poem audible and apt. Anybody who loves poetry—and wants to ponder again that old-fashioned question about the character of our speakers in any genre—has got to read this book." -- Adrian Blevins
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WW Norton & Co Looking for an Enemy 8 Essays on Antisemitism
Book SynopsisGreat Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence.Trade Review"One would be hard-pressed to find such a succinct and yet fulsome discussion on the state of antisemitism today as is found in this collection... A bold yet troubling treasure." -- Library Journal"Glanville brings together an impressive set of essays... The contributors bring a healthy diversity of experiences, and...the pieces, taken as a whole, transcend partisan positions for a larger look at 'antisemitism's resurgence.' The result is eye-opening." -- Publishers Weekly"Well-curated... The variety of perspectives in this slim collection captures the emotional intensity of [antisemitism] and the urgent need to address it." -- Kirkus Reviews"[A] tough, brilliant little book [that] pins down antisemitism in its fluorescent modern form, but with its bizarre, repetitious history.… This collection, full of vivid intelligence and wit,… tells stories that we need to think about right now" -- Jean Seaton - Observer"In this collection of essays, serious writers grapple with a serious and increasingly urgent question: What drives those who hate Jews, and why is that hatred stirring once more? Whether through careful analysis or evocative and moving memoir; whether writing from Europe, Israel or the US; and whether you agree with all, some or none of them, they combine to offer a timely perspective on what, rather bleakly, seems to be a timeless problem. Looking for an Enemy sheds fresh and revealing light on an ancient menace." -- Jonathan Freedland, journalist and host of The Long View"This collection of essays is demanding in the best possible way. It is tough because the authors, who do not all agree in their approach, do not compromise on this most explosive of topics. It is painful because there are narratives here that won’t leave you after you’ve put the book down." -- Sir Trevor Phillips, broadcaster and host of Trevor Phillips on Sunday"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." -- Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass
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W. W. Norton & Company Our Fragile Freedoms
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Mariner Books Classics Reflections
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Orwell on Truth
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Mariner Books Figures in a Landscape
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Houghton Mifflin The Best American Food Writing 2018
Book Synopsis“Food writing is stepping out,” legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, the inaugural edition of Best American Food Writing. “It’s about time…Food is, in a very real sense, redesigning the world.” Indeed, the twenty-eight pieces in this volume touch on every pillar of society: from the sense memories that connect a family through food, to the scientific tinkering that gives us new snacks to share, to the intersections of culinary culture with some of our most significant political issues. At times a celebration, at times a critique, at times a wondrous reverie, the Best American Food Writing 2018 is brimming with delights both circumspect and sensuous. Dig in!
£14.39
Hanover Square Press The Possibility of Life
£19.79
Alfred A. Knopf Holding the Note
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Cuba in Mind An Anthology Vintage Departures
Book SynopsisSince Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer ample proof of the fascinations that have lured generations of travelers. In this richly varied anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we hear from such famous visitors as Anthony Trollope, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene. Poets and journalists offer their responses, from Allen Ginsberg and Jayne Cortez to Alma Guillermoprieto and Robert Stone; and novelists weigh in with such fictional portrayals as Elmore Leonard’s Cuba Libre and Pico Iyer’s Cuba and the Night. Cuban exiles, immigrants, and their offspring provide their unique perspective, from Cristina García’s essay “Simple Life” to excerpts from Oscar Hijuelos’s novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and
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Johns Hopkins University Press Postcolonial Literary Studies
Book SynopsisIt not only highlights the development and transformation of postcolonial literary study but also, by mapping out new directions of study, considers its continual significance and expansion.Trade Review"The single best anthology for studying postcolonialism and literature." (Susan Strehle, Binghamton University)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The First Thirty Years of Postcolonial Literary Scholarship: The Continuing Importance of a DisciplinePart I: ParadigmsChapter 1. The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)Chapter 2. Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism, and the Colonial SubjectChapter 3. Imperial Triangles: Mark Twain's Foreign AffairsChapter 4. Fiction and the Law: Recent Inscriptions of Gayness in South AfricaChapter 5. Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's TextsChapter 6. Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of BonesChapter 7. Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude FictionPart II: Postcolonial AfricaChapter 8. Smoke of the Savannah: Traveling Modernity in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of WoodChapter 9. Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of DyingChapter 10. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Postnation: The Cultural Geographies of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Postnational SpaceChapter 11. Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after ApartheidChapter 12. The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The Plaasroman Tradition in an Era of Land ReformPart III: Postcolonial IndiaChapter 13. Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's ChildrenChapter 14. The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women's Novels in EnglishChapter 15. Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael OndaatjeChapter 16. Figures of Colonial ResistancePart IV: New DirectionsChapter 17. Introduction: Worldly EnglishChapter 18. Narrative in Prison: Stories from the Palestinian IntifadaChapter 19. Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic VersesChapter 20. National Narratives, Postnational NarrationChapter 21. Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane SatrapiChapter 22. Tenderness: A Mediator of Identity and Gender Construction in PoliticsList of Contributors Index
£37.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Timelines of American Literature
Book SynopsisA collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature. It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. Early American, antebellum, modern, post-1945such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessaryeven illuminatingpractice. In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periodsfrom 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of modernism ifTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Introduction Cody Marrs and Christopher HagerPart 1. Prehistories and Transitions2. Prologue. What's in a Date? Sandra GustafsonPrehistories3. 1833-1932: American Literature's Other Scripts Erica Fretwell4. 1922-1968: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership Adrienne Brown5. 1830-1924: The Literatures of Sovereignty Phillip Round6. 600 BCE-1830 CE: The Book of Mormon and the Lived Eschatology of Settler Colonialism Jared HickmanTransitions7. 1629-1852: American Literature, Democracy, and the Patroons Jennifer Greiman8. 1973: When It Changed Gerry Canavan9. The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism Coleman Hutchison10. 1819-1857: Romantic Cycles from the Panic of 1819 to the Panic of 1857 Andrew Kopec11. Reimagining 1820-1865 Robert S. LevinePart 2. Ages and the Long Present 12. Prologue. The Anthropocene, 1945/1783/1610/1492-???? (or, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You) Dana LucianoAges13. The Age of US Latinidad Jesse Alemán14. The Age of Van BurenJustine S. Murison15. The Ages of Appalachian Literature Rachel A. Wise16. The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights Michael LeMahieu17. The Age of Warhol Bryan WatermanThe Long Present18. All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature Yogita Goyal19. Propaganda and the Movement of American Literary History Russ Castronovo20. De-ciphering American Literature: Caroline Levander21. Methodological Individualism and the Novel in the Age of Microeconomics, 1871 to the Present Annie McClanahan22. 1980 to the Present: Formalism and the New Authoritarianism Rachel Greenwald Smith23. American Captivity Narratives from the Colonial Era to the Present: A New Timeline Birgit Brander Rasmussen24. Afterword. The Newer Newest Thing: Reperiodizing, Redux Susan GillmanAppendix. Sample Syllabi Contributors Index
£72.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Love
Book SynopsisPhiladelphia has been at the heart of many books by award-winning author Beth Kephart, but none more so than the affectionate collection Love. This volume of personal essays and photographs celebrates the intersection of memory and place. Kephart writes lovingly, reflectively about what Philadelphia means to her. She muses about meandering on SEPTA trains, spending hours among the armor in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and taking shelter at Independence Mall during a downpour. In Love, Kephart shares her loveof Reading Terminal Market at Thanksgiving: This abundant, bristling market is, in November, the most unlonesome place around. She waxes poetic about the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, the mustard in a Salumeria sandwich, and the coins slipped between the lips of Philbert the pig.Kephart also extends her journeys to the suburbs, Glenside and Ardmoreand beyond, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Stone Harbor, New Jersey; and Wilmington, Delaware. What emerges is a valentine to theTrade Review"In her new book Love, Beth Kephart has beautifully captured the heart and soul of our city. She captures its complexity by writing eloquently about its beauty, the respect for the past, the resilience of its citizens and an embrace of creativity and innovation unfolding at the speed of light. Set against an extraordinary backdrop of some of our city and region's most beloved sites, Kephart, paints a picture of an area where the past, present and future come together to create a unique and wonderful place that is exciting for those of us who live here and a great treat for those who travel here from across the county and the globe."--Jane Golden, Executive Director, Mural Arts Program“Love is a lovely literary tour of places and spaces in and around Philadelphia…. When seen through Kephart’s eyes and words – Philadelphia is a place of new beginnings.”-- Siobhan A. Reardon, President and Director, Free Library of Philadelphia
£999.99
Peter Pauper Press A Room of Ones Own Deluxe Hardbound Edition
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£11.88
Little, Brown & Company Giant George
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£12.59
Pelican Publishing Co Louisiana Eats The People the Food and Their
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE LOUISIANA LITERARY AWARD Celebrating the traditions of Louisiana's food, chefs, and cooks!Radio host Poppy Tooker takes readers on a culinary journey filled with the stories of some of Louisiana's most notable chefs and cooks. From the queen of Creole cuisine Leah Chase to Roman Candyman Ronnie Kottemann, Tooker includes profiles and recipes from beloved culinary icons. Photographer David G. Spielman provides an intimate portrait in black and white for each food personality introduced.
£22.09
Pelican Publishing Company When Rex Met Zulu and Other Chronicles of the New
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina North Carolina Land of Water Land of Sky
Book SynopsisBland Simpson has blended history, observation, and personal narrative in his books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Here, for the first time, he brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, to create a portrait of the Old North State with care and humour.
£33.26
Simon & Schuster I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
Book Synopsis*A People Top 10 Book of 2018* The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a cult following as a cartoonist. But, above all else, Tim Kreider is an essayist—one whose deft prose, uncanny observations, dark humor, and emotional vulnerability have earned him deserved comparisons to David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, and the late David Foster Wallace (who was himself a fan of Kreider’s humor). “Beautifully written, with just enough humor to balance his spikiness” (Booklist), I Wrote This Book Because I Love You focuses Tim’s unique perception and wit on his relationships with women—romantic, platonic, and the murky in-between. He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love and seeks to understand his commitment issues by tracking down the John Hopkins psychologist who tested him for a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico. He talks about his time teaching young women at an upstate New York college, and the profound lessons they wound up teaching him. And in a hugely popular essay that originally appeared in The New York Times, he talks about his nineteen-year-old cat, wondering if it’s the most enduring relationship he’ll ever have. “In a style reminiscent of Orwell, E.B. White and David Sedaris” (The New York Times Book Review), each of these pieces is “heartbreaking, brutal, and hilarious” (Judd Apatow), and collectively they cement Kreider’s place among the best essayists working today.Trade Review"Tim Kreider's voice is never anything less than honest, smart, and hilarious; in I Wrote This Book Because I Love You he is even more mordant and empathetic than ever before. What a sad and beautiful book." -- Lauren Groff * author of Fates and Furies *"Tim Kreider's wonderfully frank, consistently funny essays reminded me at a time of spectacular doubt that there might still be a few men in America who are both weird and wise, equally friendly to cats and ex-girlfriends, and refreshingly willing to admit to flaws that come entirely free of vindictiveness and cruelty. In an age of widespread buffoonery, it's a pleasure and a relief to have Kreider restore a little faith." -- Joshua Ferris * author of The Dinner Party and Other Stories *"Tim Kreider is one of my favorite living writers, no exaggeration...His wisdom is counterintuitive and therefore all the wiser; his humor is dark in ways that let light in where it's needed most. This isn't a book about one man's relationship to women as much as it's a chart of the collision course of human need in all its wrenching, perverse, gorgeous, hilarious forms. It's his best stuff yet." -- Meghan Daum * author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion *"Tim Kreider's writing is heartbreaking, brutal and hilarious—usually at the same time. He can do in a few pages what I need several hours of screen time and tens of millions to accomplish. And he does it better. Come to think of it, I'd rather not do a blurb. I am beginning to feel bad about myself." -- Judd Apatow“Kreider rules.” -- David Foster Wallace"[Kreider's] essays are beautifully written, with just enough humor to balance his spikiness, and will please lovers of fine writing.” * Booklist *"Kreider... writes like a smart, funny friend; his essays feel like late-night conversations that you don’t want to end." * The Seattle Times *"Kreider isn’t solely a humorist; he’s also part philosopher, part psychologist, part poet. Paired with his depth of insight into the human condition and startlingly sharp observations, this intimate collection is as hilarious as it is poignant, as it explores what it means to love and be loved—even if it’s love shared with your 19-year-old cat. " * Baltimore Magazine *"Kreider is...an inimitable American essayist. He reliably, intelligently, wittily states the hesitated-over, the unspoken, the perhaps, the after-last-call-drunken-theory-of-the-universe that actually might have been brilliant...His ideas are sometimes risky or incomplete, but I’ve almost never encountered them anywhere else; in style, he sits on the shelf between the quick humor of Dave Barry and the gentle, erudite persuasion of Virginia Woolf. When reading Tim Kreider, I feel as if he’s stated what’s already in my mind." * Another Chicago Magazine *"Much of the collection's strength comes from wry ruminations on his non-romantic relationships...Kreider's observations cut deep, sharply delivered in the midst of what he might sometimes call 'mush.' It's no surprise that David Foster Wallace declared, 'Kreider rules,' or that Kreider counts Richard Russo and Judd Apatow as fans. His precision and candor coexist like a just-sharpened razor slicing into soft fruit, sweet, lovely, messy and sustaining." * Shelf Awareness *"In a style reminiscent of Orwell, E.B. White and David Sedaris, an affable hero gamely bumbles through adventures rich with moments of fleeting profundity and moral reckoning...his depictions of the arc from ignorance to wisdom are reliably deft...Kreider is a curious and compassionate observer and a fantastic wit—I laughed to tears more than once. Though he excels at romantic comedy, the the essays that stray from that convention resound longer...pleasurable, well-wrought essays." * New York Times Book Review *"Come for the arresting cover, stay for the author's trenchant ruminations on his relationships with women...Like all the best essayists, Kreider finds words for the ineffable...he'll open your eyes to the many varieties of love." * People *“If love is all we need, Kreider shows us—tenderly and tragically—how to get there.” —AV Club“Tim Kreider's heartfelt and funny memoir chronicles a series of attachments and love affairs. It both amuses and puts into perspective the realities of human love. Kreider has created a darkly wise book which may leave you feeling a little better about the world.” * Minnesota Public Radio *
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Simon & Schuster And Yet...
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£18.04
Tyndale House Publishers The Donkey Principle
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£14.24
Saint Benedict Press The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
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£17.10
University of Minnesota Press Isherwood on Writing: The Complete Lectures in California
Book SynopsisIsherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these free-flowing, wide-ranging public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood at the top of his form.This updated edition contains the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, published here for the first time, including its discussion of A Single Man, his greatest novel, and A Meeting by the River, his final novel.
£999.99
Alfred A. Knopf Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Reflections on Poetry and the World: Walking
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together 40 years of essays about poetry and literature written by Emily Grosholz. The first section includes essays about some of her favorite poets and thinkers in the United States, England, France and Germany. The second section brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics and practical deliberation, and the third considers it alongside science and imagination. The last section is an homage to The Hudson Review, for whom she has served as an Advisory Editor for many years. As a philosopher, Emily Grosholz has written and thought about feminism, racism, and mathematics and science, which has led her to admire all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry reorganized language and memory, eros and experience, and time and place, and how and why it deepens our understanding of life.Trade Review“Since meeting her, I have been dazzled by the combination of poetry, philosophy and mathematics in Emily Grosholz’s thought and writing, particularly in her poems. And those poems are not stiff academic exercises, but true poetry.”Ruth FainlightPoet“Emily Grosholz’s essays are like being in your best friend’s open touring car with a hamper in the back. And the landscape is the most interesting people of our age. We see each mind-landscape in her mellow Mediterranean light of insight, accepting, registering, presenting, pointing so well that explanation is hardly needed. This is Grosholz’s middle way—or as she would say, middle term—between the dazzling inhuman light of her philosophy of science and the intimate glow of her poetry. It’s the vision of a sane, good human being with a mammoth intellect and a half-hidden puckish sense of humor.”Frederick TurnerPoet“This collection is a magnificent testament to Emily Grosholz’s range and depth. She moves effortlessly across disciplines, from mathematics and science, to literature and social issues, sweeping up an extraordinary chorus of thinkers, and illuminating all she touches with lucidity, erudition, and grace.”Philip KitcherPhilosopher and poet
£52.07
Twelve A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for
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£24.00
Twelve 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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£27.00
Belt Publishing On an Inland Sea
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Fulcrum Publishing Walking the Rez Road: Stories, 20th Anniversary
Book SynopsisCelebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace.Trade Review"This 20th-anniversary edition includes the original 40 stories as well as new material: poems, a play and some of Northrup's newspaper work. The stories stand the test of time, as blackly humorous, plainspoken and earthy as they were in 1993. ... Northrup knows this life, this area, to the bone." —Star Tribune "As relevant as it was 20 years ago, this collection continues to provide an unromanticized, insider's view of a culture struggling to maintain, and even recover, its identity, heritage, and language in a rapidly changing and often openly hostile world." —Publishers Weekly
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Graywolf Press Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse
Book SynopsisWhen the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors.For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts invited a number of literary writers to tell him how they were reacting to the technological innovatios of our day. Do the "dreadful excitements" promised by a digital future cause us to forfeit our time-honored cultural traditions for dubious gain? Or will the electronic millennium usher in an unprecedented age of interconnectedness and opportunities for wider communication?In the tradition of the Graywolf Annuals, this first Graywolf Forum presents a wide range of responses from contemporary creative writers.Contributors:Sven BirkertsHarvey BlumeDaniel Mark EpsteinJonathan FranzenThomas FrickAlice FultonAlbert GoldbarthCarolyn GuyerGerald HowardWendy LesserRalph LombregliaCarole MasoAskold MelnyczukRobert PinskyWulf RehderLynne Sharon SchwartzTom SleighMark SloukaPaul West
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Graywolf Press,U.S. The Outermost Dream
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Northern Waters
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on fly fishing in north Minnesota, in the old North Woods, celebrate nature itself, and the people who have worked with, rather than against, nature, to restore the region's polluted streams and forests.
£11.39
Graywolf Press,U.S. Many Circles: New and Selected Essays
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Lawnboy
Book Synopsis17-year-old Evan''s adventures begin with mowing a neighbour''s lawn - a summer job that leads him into an unpredictable world of desire and betrayal. Estranged from his parents and his older brother, he moves in with 41-year-old William and begins a disastrous series of attempts to make a new home. Must he make a choice between family and desire?
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Can Poetry Matter
Book SynopsisIn 1991, Dana Gioia''s provocative essay Can Poetry Matter? was published in the Atlantic Monthly, and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine''s history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place for poetry to be part of modern American mainstream culture? Ten years later, the debate is as lively and heated as ever. Graywolf is pleased to re-issue this highly acclaimed collection in a handsome new edition, which includes a new Introduction by distinguished critic and poet, Dana Gioia.
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Halls Of Fame
Book SynopsisJohn D''Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold. Guy Davenport, Harper''sJohn D''Agata journeys the endless corridors of America''s myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. With topics ranging from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the artist Henry Darger, who died in obscurity, Halls of Fame hovers on the brink between prose and poetry, deep seriousness and high comedy, the subject and the self.
£14.40
Graywolf Press,U.S. Open House: Writers Redefine Home
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Graywolf Press,U.S. The Black Interior
Book SynopsisLegendary poet Elizabeth Alexander turns her finely-honed sensibilities to the subject of blackness and the interior world of the modern African-American. Intelligent, perceptive and keenly observed, this collection of essays traces a thoughtful path through music, poetry and the outstanding social issues of the last 200 years to synthesise a remarkable picture of the modern African-American psyche. From Langston Hughes to the Rodney King video, Alexander leads her reader effortlessly over the complex terrain of art and politics to a new vision of the black interior.
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Reading Life
Book SynopsisAcclaimed critic Sven Birkets decided to reinvest himself in the books that formed the landmarks of his inner life. In his words, ''Reading, the mind''s traffic in signs and signifiers, is the most dynamic, changeful and possibly transformational act we can imagine.'' By returning to the light-posts which marked his formative years, Birkets dissects the foundations themselves, finding strange sediments of self: of time, of memory, of the forming and ever-changing processes of intellectual life.
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Graywolf Press,U.S. The Next Rodeo
Book SynopsisAn intimate discussion of the landscape of the American West and the challenges of ownership, environmental crises, and greed. Kittredge describes his contradictory relationship to the spare and often unforgiving western landscape through these luminous essays that move from the personal to the political. Kittredge is intimately connected with the West through his family''s Oregon cattle ranch, and he has watched his region decline for many decades now. These essays directly address environmental concerns, and the problematic mythologies of the western experience.
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Graywolf Press Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir
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