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Promised Land
Thirteen Books That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.
Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry...
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,...
The Late American Novel
Writers on the Future of Books
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison’s phonograph has been reincarnated as the iPod. Celluloid went digital. But books, for the most part, have remained the same-until now. And while music and movies have undergone an almost Darwinian evolution, the literary world now faces...
by Ursula K. Le Guin, David Naimon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century.
When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
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Adventures among books -- Recollections of...
Meditations on Middle-Earth
New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD
When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of two...
Waiting for the Barbarians
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest...
A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Plea for Bibliomania
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Subtitled, “A Plea for Bibliomania,” Tredwell’s monograph was prepared upon the invitation of the Rembrandt Club in Brooklyn, New York, to tell of his experiences in the “seductive” art of privately illustrating books. The paper was read on December 8, 1880, but was so popular the club printed it in book form.
Morning, Noon, and Night
Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein’s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and...
by Mikey Lee Ray
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
50 Shades of Grey is one of the highest selling books of recent years... but what do other writers think about it? In this in-depth book review Mikey Lee Ray looks at the book in terms of characters, story, credibility and much more and answers all the questions you've been asking yourself regarding...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume Three: A Legacy in Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The final volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers’ contradictory...
by Carole Maso
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards finalist and a Village Voice pick for Best Books of 2000. Maso chronicles with great tenderness and awe the months of her pregnancy, from its charmed conception through the auspicious arrival of Rose.
by Daily Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: by Gabrielle Zevin | Conversation Starters
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a heartwarming book about a lonely man who finds true love, happiness, and friendship. The story is about AJ, a disgruntled bookshop owner who doesn’t...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media's imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts) to...