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  • Men at Work

    Rediscovering Depression-era Stories from the Federal Writers’ Project

    by Matthew Basso ...
    As part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the “soul” of the nation. While researching at the Montana Historical Society Research Center more than a decade ago, historian Matthew Basso ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Across the Great Divide

    Cultures of Manhood in the American West

    by Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, Dee Garceau ...
    In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
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    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Blue Highways

    A Journey into America

    by William Least Heat-Moon ...
    Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits

    Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

    by Gregory Smithers ...
    Series Book 12 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.**Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The 50 Funniest American Writers

    An Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion

    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sherman Alexie

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Jeff Berglund, Jan Roush ...
    Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • To Build a Fire

    by Jack London and The Editors of New Word City ...
    What happens when an over-confident prospector finds himself alone with a half-wild dog on a wintry Yukon trail? An enhanced version of Jack Londons classic story. Features an original biography of the author plus more. ... Read more

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  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    by Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Essays of E. B. White

    by E. B. White ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    "Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." — Washington PostThe classic collection by one of the greatest ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

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  • Real Indians

    Identity and the Survival of Native America

    by Eva Garroutte ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012

    Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi

    Edited by Laura Furman ...
    Series series The O. Henry Prize Collection
    The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town, and the eye of a hurricane. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors ... Read more

    $9.99 USD