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American Short Story Masterpieces
Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 2, 1989
Price: $7.99
This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight.
But what... Read more >
Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 2, 1989
Price: $7.99
This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight.
But what... Read more >
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The Art of Haiku
Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Written by Stephen Addiss
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $24.95
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku... Read more >
Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Written by Stephen Addiss
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $24.95
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku... Read more >
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Written by Sylvia Plath
Foreword by Ted Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1998
Price: $16.95
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of... Read more >
Written by Sylvia Plath
Foreword by Ted Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1998
Price: $16.95
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of... Read more >
Also available as an
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Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $27.95
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $27.95
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies... Read more >
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Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $27.95
“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”
“You must get beneath the words before you can say them. The text must be in you. It... Read more >
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $27.95
“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”
“You must get beneath the words before you can say them. The text must be in you. It... Read more >
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eBook and a
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Against Wind and Tide
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $14.99
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $14.99
Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first books on flying, she tapered off into long silences broken by an infrequent volume of verse or prose.” ...
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Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.99
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on... Read more >
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.99
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
Practical Classics
50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School
Written by Kevin Smokler
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $11.99
What do the great books of your youth have to say about your life now? Remember reading Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby in high school? How about Slaughterhouse-Five and Pride and Prejudice? Would you read them again now that no one's grading you, just for your own enjoyment?... Read more >
50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School
Written by Kevin Smokler
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $11.99
What do the great books of your youth have to say about your life now? Remember reading Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby in high school? How about Slaughterhouse-Five and Pride and Prejudice? Would you read them again now that no one's grading you, just for your own enjoyment?... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Portraits and Observations
Written by Truman Capote
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote’s eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs... Read more >
Written by Truman Capote
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote’s eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs... Read more >
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Proud Highway
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by William J. Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $20.00
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by William J. Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $20.00
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
