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Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of six previous books. Her reviews and essays appear in major newspapers and magazines across the country. Her awards and fellowships include membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment from the Humanities, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Currently, she is a Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.
Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language with which she grew up... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Price: $19.00
In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self-described "eighteenth-century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her education, her experiences, and... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $13.95
Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writer Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $13.95
Room for Doubt is about one writer’s growing suspicion that there are more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in her previous philosophy. Through Wendy Lesser’s account of her stay in a city that she never imagined she would see, a book she thought she wanted to write... Read more >
