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More Alive and Less Lonely
On Books and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books
More Alive and Less Lonely collects over a decade of Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material,...
American Lit 101
From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned!
Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States...
Romps, Tots and Boffins
The Strange Language of News
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A funny and irreverent annotated collection of "journalese"—words, phrases, clichés, and sacred cows beloved by newspapers but never used by anyone else. This "bumper crop" of examples is sure to "fuel controversy."
Anyone who has picked up a paper...
by François Mauriac
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Last American Man Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | Conversation Starters
The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel, spins a tale of family dysfunction, self-absorption, fighting over an inheritance, the perils of drug abuse and addiction, and defining an individual’s role within a family unit....
Hothouse
The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
“Mad Men for the literary world.” —Junot Díaz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twenty-five Nobel Prize winners and generation-defining authors like T. S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe,...
Chineasy
The Easy Way to Learn Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Chinese is considered one of the most difficult languages to master. However, using the Chineasy system, anyone can begin to understand and read Chinese. It works by transforming Chinese characters into illustrations to make them easy to remember. This book teaches the key characters on which the...
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
How do you clothe a book?
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri...
Bookshops
A Reader's History
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Received wide acclaim in original Spanish publication.
Finalist for the 2013 Premio Anagrama de Ensayo [Anagrama Award for Essays]
The Broken Estate
Essays on Literature and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
Show Me a Story!
Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
“Will inspire, inform, and delight those of any age who areengaged in—or by—the arts.” — The Horn Book
Renowned children’s literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with twenty-one of the world’s most celebrated illustrators of picture books, asking about their childhood,...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder | Conversation Starters
Red Notice: A True Story of Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” is Bill Browder’s captivating memoir surrounding the time he spent in Russia and his...
