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Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Written by William H Gass
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $28.95
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite... Read more >
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Written by William H Gass
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $28.95
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite... Read more >
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How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.95
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance... Read more >
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.95
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance... Read more >
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The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
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Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.95
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you... Read more >
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.95
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Art of the Personal Essay
An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Written by Phillip Lopate
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1997
Price: $21.00
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals... Read more >
An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Written by Phillip Lopate
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1997
Price: $21.00
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals... Read more >
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Ulysses (Gabler Edition)
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $21.00
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. Read more >
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $21.00
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. Read more >
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Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $23.00
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. ... Read more >
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $23.00
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. ... Read more >
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The Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $27.95
What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation... Read more >
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $27.95
What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation... Read more >
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $6.95
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of... Read more >
Written by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $6.95
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
