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Tomorrow Rarely Knows
An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about time travel.
Dude Rocks Like a Lady
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Rock, this essay is about tribute bands.
Solace
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Belinda McKeon’s Solace is an extraordinarily accomplished first novel—a story of a father and son thrown together by tragedy; one clinging to the old country and one plunging into the new. Set in an Ireland that catapulted into wealth at the end of the twentieth century and then suffered a swift...
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
At the Ketterick Arts Festival no one relishes the dubious art of innuendo more than Des Capper, a font of dubious gossip and unwanted advice. To the horror of the actors and singers performing at the Festival, Des has been promoted to landlord of the Saracen’s Head, the Elizabethan inn that is...
Cleopatra
I Am Fire and Air
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus...
The Reckoning
Searching for Meaning with the Father of the Sandy Hook Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s...
A Stone Boat
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The debut novel, first published nearly twenty years ago, from the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity—a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother.
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” —The Washington Post
Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this compilation of over three hundred letters tells...
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cozy Yorkshire pub when an old woman shows him an original, unpublished Bronte manuscript. Trethowan agrees to engage in a little literary detective work, but he doesn’t realize that for a criminal the manuscript is motive for theft, torture—and murder.
Lear
The Great Image of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century—an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare’s most tragic and compelling character, the third in a series of five short books hailed as...
Macbeth
A Dagger of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare’s most complex and compelling anti-heroes—the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago,...
Odysseus in America
Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation...
Run the Storm
A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship...
Letter to a Godchild
Concerning Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
In the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became honorary godfather to Harper Peck Voll. As a christening gift, Price composed a letter to the child, one intended as a brief guide for Harper's spiritual future. The letter sketched the crucial roles which faith had played in Price's own life...