American Short Story Masterpieces

Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks

Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 2, 1989
Price: $7.99

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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.00

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists.

Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet... Read more >

On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $25.00

In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his... Read more >

White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $27.95

A radiant portrayal of one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters—between the elusive, original poet and the radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer whom we have to thank for the publication of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

Brenda Wineapple re-creates the extraordinary, delicate connection between these two wildly dissimilar personalities, giving us new...

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