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by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
An essential guide for writers and readers alike, here is Smiley’s great celebration of the novel. As she embarks on an exhilarating tour through one hundred titles—from classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to recent fiction by Zadie Smith and Alice Munro—she explores the power...
Ten Windows
How Great Poems Transform the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist
“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by...
Words Are My Matter
Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writers Week
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom...
by Anais Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Anais Nin's first book, published in 1932 by Edward Titus in Paris, was a critical examination of the work of controversial British author D. H. Lawrence. Of all the books written about Lawrence, his widow Frieda said this one "was the best." Nin was inspired to do the book after Lawrence...
by Clive James
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal).
In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights...
Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his...
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time
A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.
At seven volumes, three thousand pages,...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
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Summary of Measure What Matters
Objectives and key results...
The Daemon Knows
Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
Hailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has...
The Adventure of English
The Biography of a Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent...
Gutenberg’s Fingerprint
A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of books
Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound...
Creationists
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain)...
by Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time.
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.
Even as the decline...