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Through the Window
Seventeen Essays and a Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career.
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface,...
In Search of Lost Books
The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances.
They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek...
The Things That Matter
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .
—Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth...
by Ernest J. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines...
Soul at the White Heat
Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
"Why do we write?"
With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing...
What Light Can Do
Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world—with accompanying photos throughout.
What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book...
Don't Save Anything
Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
James Salter was an extremely beloved author and this is the first publication of his work to be published posthumously.
Salter is a PEN/Faulker and PEN/Malamud award winner
An important addition for accounts with serious literary sections, with shelving also encouraged in travel and criticism
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Rereadings
Seventeen writers revisit books they love
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris (FSG, 1998) will find this...
Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years’ worth of concentrated thought on topics from the most cherished literary traditions and authors of India, Europe, and America to the politics of oppression, the joy of film and television, and the enduring value of the imagination. Writing...
by William H. Gass
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner,...
Discontent and its Civilizations
Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the bestselling author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, coming in March 2017, “a near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect." (NPR)
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made...
What Do Women Want?
Essays by Erica Jong
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy, and-yes-sex. Originally...
A Solemn Pleasure
To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Essays in this collection have been recently and prominently published: “Still God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave,” first published in Wilson Quarterly (2013), was a Byliner exclusive, recognized by The Atlantic as one of the year’s “Fantastic Pieces of Journalism,” and nominated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair
What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan...