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Saul Bellow
Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity....
The Rush for Second Place
Essays and Occasional Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time....
The Book of War
25 Centuries of Great War Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battle
In The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants—from Thucydides’...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution...
Tales of Two Cities
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York
In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1979
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli’s...
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Volume II
Great Writers on Great Places
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Another spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalists
Condé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of the award-winning magazine's best travel writings,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"A trove of well-wrought, luminous, soul-bracing gifts." -Thomas Lynch (on the 2010 edition)
With selection chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing to appear in American publications during...
Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood
Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood's most iconic movies
The magazine world 's monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago. Now,...
Homegrown Democrat
A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes the simple democratic values-the Golden Rule,...
Existentialists and Mystics
Writings on Philosophy and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this...
Woof!
Writers on Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
As the popularity of Marley & Me attests, people love their dogs?and everyone else?s too. For all the time spent on grooming, petting, and other care?it?s as if owning a dog is a religion unto itself. Woof! brings together original essays from acclaimed writers ruminating on the sometimes tumultuous,...
by Neal Cassady
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady
Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in...
Tripping
An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
**A collection of transformational, awe-provoking psychedelic experiences. **
In Tripping, Charles Hayes has gathered fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life--respectable Baby Boomers, aging hippies,...