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Such Mad Fun
Ambition and Glamour in Hollywood's Golden Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
AVAILABLE IN ALL FORMATS SEPT 8, 2016
What determines who a woman will become? Jane Hall was an orphan at fifteen and a “literary prodigy” according to the press. How did this spirited young girl from an Arizona mining town become a Depression-era debutante, a successful author of magazine...
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Unlock the more straightforward side of Based on a True Story with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, which follows a narrator who bears a striking resemblance to the novelist as a new friend worms...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today.
The texts gathered in this extraordinary collection range from philosophy to poetry, to theater, to cognitive sciences, to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Fifty writers on life, art and writing from twenty-two years of Brick, A Literary Journal.
Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal features a great many of the world’s best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. The magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates...
Literary Titans Revisited
The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.
From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian...
by Joanna Rakoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century.
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school...
by James King
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Thomas Wainewright - Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon - is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He is believed to have been one of the first recorded serial killers.
James King takes on this spectral character in...
Salinger
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
J.D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most elusive. After making his mark on the American literary scene, Salinger retreated to a small town in New Hampshire where he hoped to hide his life away from the world. With dogged determination, however,...
by Garry Douglas Kilworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Garry (Douglas) Kilworth is a varied and prolific writer who has travelled widely since childhood, living in a number of countries, especially in the Far East. His books include science fiction and fantasy, historical novels, literary novels, short story collections, children's books and film novelisations....
Fame & Folly
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private dooms is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants...
Becoming Faulkner
The Art and Life of William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the...
by Phyllis Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment—to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ–LES
Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore...
Critical Mass
Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our time
From his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies,...
Celtic Dawn
A Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Dublin is the only city in the world to produce three Nobel Prize winners for literature. An indication that something remarkable was taking place, not only in the capital but in the whole country, came in the extraordinary confluence of talent which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century....