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In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript...

A Complete Annotated Listing More than 1,500 titles in print Authoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authors Up-to-date translations from award-winning translators Readers guides and other resources available online Penguin Classics on air online radio programs

Elizabeth Bailey presents the five editing maxims you need to know to create a page-turner: •    Cut to the chase •    Stay in the character’s head •    Leave out the waffle •    Keep it simple •    Trust your reader In this essential...

For a first-time parent, baby's first words are always very exciting to hear! You can encourage your child's vocabulary and desire to speak using these targeted words that are designed to be your baby's firsts. Since words are introduced one page at a time, it becomes easier for your baby to absorb them and associate them to emotions too! Buy a copy now!

On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904—Bloomsday, as it has come to be known—Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day’s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce’s novel of the century, Ulysses*.* Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday,...

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent | Conversation Starters My Absolute Darling, the debut novel of Gabriel Tallent, is the story of a 14-year-old girl who likes to wander the wilderness in Northern California where she is dealing with a life of social isolation after the death of her mom....

Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises — these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books. Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or anyone...

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman | Conversation Starters The Owens family has been cursed in love since their ancestor, Maria Owens, was charged with being a witch in the 1600s. In 1960s New York City, Susanna Owens is raising her three children: Franny, Jet, and Vincent. Susanna knows that...

You by Caroline Kepnes | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: You, the debut novel by Caroline Kepnes, is a story of mental unbalance, unrelenting passion, and social media. When Joe meets the aspiring author Guinevere Beck in the bookstore where he works, it’s obsession at first sight....

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein | Conversation Starters Segregation in America has contributed to so much social strife. Richard Rothstein makes extraordinary revelations about how this came to be and how government policies promoted the segregation that continue to this day. With meticulous...

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende | Conversation Starters In the Midst of Winter, written by Isabel Allende, introduces the reader is introduced to two characters who are brought together by a cataclysmic event that brings them and another character together. The story flows through...

“Bellow’s nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place and time (or era) . . . And you wonder—what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets?”...

To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected...

“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,...