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  • The Land of Rowan Oak

    An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World

    by Ed Croom, Donald M. Kartiganer ...
    The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the “little postage stamp of soil” that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short stories and novels. Faulkner saw and smelled the earth and listened to sounds from the cultivated grounds and the surrounding woods. This is the place that offered him refuge for writing and provided him food from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Beautiful and Damned with FREE Audiobook+Author's Biography+Active TOC

    The Great Gatsby's Author

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ...
    FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Active Table of ContentsThe Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely ... Read more

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  • And So It Goes

    Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

    by Charles J. Shields ...
    "Vonnegut's life was a fascinating tragicomedy worthy of his best novels . . . A superbly researched and above all very entertaining biography." —Blake Bailey, New York Times–bestselling author of Philip Roth: The BiographyA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction BookIn 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Thurber Letters

    The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber

    by Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber ...
    Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published -- we find unsuspected insights into his life and career.His prodigious body of work -- fables, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Writers On The Edge

    22 Writers Speak About Addiction and Dependency

    by Diana M. Raab, James Brown ...
    Series series Reflections of America
    Writers On The Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by major contemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana Raab and James Brown have assembled an array of talented and courageous writers who share their stories with heartbreaking honesty as they share their obsessions as well as ... Read more

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  • New Selected Poems of Philip Levine

    by Philip Levine ...
    LIGHTS I HAVE SEEN BEFOREThe children are off somewhereand when I wakenI hear onlythe buzz of currentin the TVand the refrigeratorgroaning against the comingday. I rise and wash;there is nothingto think of exceptthe insistent pushof water, and the pipe's ... Read more

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  • Lost Sound

    The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling

    by Jeff Porter ...
    From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry, Wrong Number were considered, scrutiny was superficial. In Lost Sound, Jeff Porter examines the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Culture, Capital and Representation

    Edited by R. Balfour ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). ... Read more

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  • At the End of the Road

    Jack Kerouac in Mexico

    by Jorge García-Robles ...
    Translated by Daniel C. Schechter ...
    “We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.” Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac’s creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling account, Jorge García-Robles, leading authority on the Beats in Mexico, re-creates both the actual events ... Read more

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  • Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Lindsey Michael Banco ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs and travel were imagined, the conceptual nexus discussed sheds new light on British and North ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Radical Representations

    Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941

    by Barbara Foley ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics.Josephine ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Understanding Truman Capote

    by Thomas Fahy ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    "Does an admirable job of examining Capote as a writer whose work reflects America of the late 1940s and 1950s more deeply than previously thought." —Ralph F. Voss, author of Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"Truman Capote—and his most famous works, In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's—continue to have a powerful hold over the American popular imagination, along with his glamorous ... Read more

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