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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artistsby Terry GrossISBN 1401300103 (1-4013-0010-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists'Book summary:A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air.
Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR stations across the country.
Gross is known for her thoughtful, probing interviewing style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and opens up. But Gross doesn't shy away from controversy, and her questions can be tough -- too tough, apparently, for Bill O'Reilly, who abruptly terminated his conversation with her. Her interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss, which is included in the book, prompted Entertainment Weekly to name Simmons its male "Crackpot of the Year."
For All I Did Was Ask, Gross has selected more than three dozen of her best interviews -- ones of lasting relevance that are as lively on the page as they were on the air. Each is preceded by a personal introduction in which she reveals why a particular guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. And in an introductory chapter, the normally self-effacing Gross does something you're unlikely ever to hear her do on Fresh Air -- she discusses her approach to interviewing, revealing a thing or two about herself in the bargain.
The collection focuses on luminaries from the art and entertainment world, including actors, comedians, writers, visual artists, and musicians, such as:
--Conan O'Brien
--Chris Rock
--Michael Caine
--Dennis Hopper
--Dustin Hoffman
--Jodie Foster
--John Updike
--Mary Karr
--Mario Puzo
--Nick Hornby
--Chuck Close
--Eric Clapton
--George Clinton
--Sonny Rollins
--Samuel L. Jackson
--Johnny Cash
--Isabella Rossellini
--Divine
--Uta Hagen
--Carol Shields [via]More editions of All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists:
Ambidextrousby Felice PicanoISBN 1560234385 (1-56023-438-5)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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The Art of Writing: An Illustrated Journalby Susan Todd, Brian Perrin, Susan E. Van HornISBN 1561385581 (1-56138-558-1)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Arthur & Georgeby Julian BarnesISBN 1400097037 (1-4000-9703-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur & George'Book summary:A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals. Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Atlas of Literatureby Malcolm BradburyISBN 1556708793 (1-55670-879-3)
Hardcover, De Agostini Editions
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Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraqby Riverbend, Ahdaf Soueif, James RidgewayISBN 1558614893 (1-55861-489-3)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq'Book summary:[via]In August 2003, the world gained access to a remarkable new voice: a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, whose identity remained concealed for her own protection. Calling herself Riverbend, she offered searing eyewitness accounts of the everyday realities on the ground, punctuated by astute analysis on the politics behind these events.
In a voice in turn eloquent, angry, reflective and darkly comic, Riverbend recounts stories of life in an occupied cityof neighbors whose homes are raided by US troops, whose relatives disappear into prisons and whose children are kidnapped by money-hungry militias. At times, the tragic blends into the absurd, as she tells of her family jumping out of bed to wash clothes and send e-mails in the middle of the night when the electricity is briefly restored, or of their quest to bury an elderly aunt when the mosques are all overbooked for wakes and the cemeteries are all full. The only Iraqi blogger writing from a womans perspective, she also describes a once-secular city where women are now afraid to leave their homes without head covering and a male escort.
Interspersed with these vivid snapshots from daily life are Riverbends analyses of everything from the elusive workings of the Iraqi Governing Council to the torture in Abu Ghraib, from the coverage provided by American media and by Al-Jazeera to Bushs State of the Union speech. Here again, she focuses especially on the fate of women, whose rights and freedoms have fallen victim to rising fundamentalisms in a chaotic postwar society.
With thousands of loyal readers worldwide, the Riverbend blog is widely recognized around the world as a crucial source of information not available through the mainstream media. The book version of this blog will have value-added features: an introduction and timeline of events by veteran journalist James Ridgeway, excerpts from Riverbends links and an epilogue by Riverbend herself.
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The Bone Peopleby Keri HulmeISBN 1417702931 (1-4177-0293-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Readby Stuart KellyISBN 1400062977 (1-4000-6297-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read'Book summary:In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, its sobering to realize that some of the worlds greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literatures what-ifs and never-weres.
In compulsively readable fashion, Stuart Kelly reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous, the acclaimed, and the influential, from the time of cave drawings to the late twentieth century. Here are the true stories behind stories, poems, and plays that now exist only in imagination:
·Aristophanes Heracles, the Stage Manager was one of the playwrights several spoofs that disappeared.
·Loves Labours Won may have been a sequel to Shakespeares Loves Labours Lostor was it just an alternative title for The Taming of the Shrew?
·Jane Austens incomplete novel Sanditon, was a critique of hypochondriacs and cures started when the author was fatally ill.
·Nikolai Gogol burned the second half of Dead Souls after a religious conversion convinced him that literature was paganism.
·Some of the thousand pages of William Burroughss original Naked Lunch were stolen and sold on the street by Algerian street boys.
·Sylvia Plaths widower, Ted Hughes, claimed that the 130 pages of her second novel, perhaps based on their marriage, were lost after her death.
Whether destroyed (Socrates versions of Aesops Fables), misplaced (Malcolm Lowrys Ultramarine was pinched from his publishers car), interrupted by the authors death (Robert Louis Stevensons Weir of Hermiston), or simply never begun (Vladimir Nabokovs Speak, America, a second volume of his memoirs), these missing links create a history of literature for a parallel world. Civilized and satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books is itself a find. [via]More editions of The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read:
The Canadian Writer's Guideby Paul G. Cormack, Bernice Lever, Jennifer Crump, Murphy O. Shewchuk, Gill FossISBN 1550417401 (1-55041-740-1)
Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
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Charmedby Nora RobertsISBN 1560547162 (1-56054-716-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writersby Jack L. Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Bud GardnerISBN 1558747702 (1-55874-770-2)
Hardcover, Health Communications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers'Book summary:Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul anthologizes 80 stories of heartwarming writerly success. As is the trademark of the Chicken Soup series, these are feel-good stories about unforgettable relatives, encouraging teachers, serendipitous encounters, memorable experiences, positive outlooks, and, yes, seemingly unbearable adversity. But even the most tragic stories here are written to inspire. In fact, the success of many of the contributors seems a direct result of their overwhelming misfortune: Christine Clifford parlayed her battle with breast cancer into a book of cancer-related cartoons (Not Now ... I'm Having a No Hair Day!). After his son, Nicholas, was shot by highway robbers in Italy and Nicholas's organs were donated to seven ailing Italian children, Reg Green chronicled the experience in The Nicholas Effect. More than a decade after a professor squelched her pen by telling her that her writing "stinks," Catherine Lanigan rebounded and went on to write Romancing the Stone). And Barbara Jeanne Fisher managed to write Stolen Moments, a romance, despite having five kids before embarking on a college degree, then being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and lupus.
Consuming the whole tureen's worth at once might be a bit much, but a spoonful here and there will help any struggling writer remember that they are part of a whole community of struggling writers. With contributions from Ernest J. Gaines, Terry McMillan, Sue Grafton, Steve Allen, George Plimpton, and Ray Bradbury. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writersby Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Bud GardnerISBN 1558747699 (1-55874-769-9)
Softcover, Hci
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers'Book summary:Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul anthologizes 80 stories of heartwarming writerly success. As is the trademark of the Chicken Soup series, these are feel-good stories about unforgettable relatives, encouraging teachers, serendipitous encounters, memorable experiences, positive outlooks, and, yes, seemingly unbearable adversity. But even the most tragic stories here are written to inspire. In fact, the success of many of the contributors seems a direct result of their overwhelming misfortune: Christine Clifford parlayed her battle with breast cancer into a book of cancer-related cartoons (Not Now ... I'm Having a No Hair Day!). After his son, Nicholas, was shot by highway robbers in Italy and Nicholas's organs were donated to seven ailing Italian children, Reg Green chronicled the experience in The Nicholas Effect. More than a decade after a professor squelched her pen by telling her that her writing "stinks," Catherine Lanigan rebounded and went on to write Romancing the Stone). And Barbara Jeanne Fisher managed to write Stolen Moments, a romance, despite having five kids before embarking on a college degree, then being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and lupus.
Consuming the whole tureen's worth at once might be a bit much, but a spoonful here and there will help any struggling writer remember that they are part of a whole community of struggling writers. With contributions from Ernest J. Gaines, Terry McMillan, Sue Grafton, Steve Allen, George Plimpton, and Ray Bradbury. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Complete Cheapskate: How to Break Free from Money Worries Forever, Without Sacrificing Your Quality of Lifeby Mary HuntISBN 1561795208 (1-56179-520-8)
Softcover, Focus on the Family Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Cheapskate: How to Break Free from Money Worries Forever, Without Sacrificing Your Quality of Life'Book summary:In need of a Money Makeover? Let America's most popular cheapskate show you how to go from financial chaos to freedom and security--painlessly and in less time than you ever imagined. Mary Hunt has helped thousands live a debt-free life with her popular newsletter, "The Cheapskate Monthly." In The Complete Cheapskate, Mary puts all the very best money advice she has in one place. Becoming a classy, dignified cheapskate is not all that difficult, and Mary shows how with her user-friendly principles of saving, restraint, and living debt-free. This book will teach you how to: - Create--and stick to--a monthly spending plan - Live well off 80% of your income - Climb out--and stay out--of debt's hole - Stretch every dollar to its absolute maximum - Manage savings and investments - Lower bills on clothes, food, and gifts without lowering living standards - Live within a financial plan that includes a margin for fun and spontaneity With hundreds of tips on cutting expenses, The Complete Cheapskate is the indispensable guide for people ready to regain control of their finances, relieve the stress money has created, and prepare for their future. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Anthony Burgess, Edmond RostandISBN 1557832307 (1-55783-230-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyrano De Bergerac'Book summary:(Applause Books). This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours, yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech." London Times . Performance rights available from Applause. [via]
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The Days That Shook The Worldby John ReedISBN 1419158724 (1-4191-5872-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Days That Shook The World'Book summary:This was followed by the dispersal of the Soviet at Kaluga. The Bolsheviki, having secured a majority in the Soviet, set free some political prisoners. With the sanction of the Government Commissar the Municipal Duma called in troops from Minsk, and bombarded the Soviet headquarters with artillery. The Bolsheviki yielded, but as they left the building Cossacks attacked them. [via]
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Dear Mr. Henshawby Beverly ClearyISBN 1557360014 (1-55736-001-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'Book summary:1927. American novelist. In this work her focus falls on the Southwest. From the dust cover: Death Comes for the Archbishop is a very beautiful and harmonious piece of work. The whole narrative proceeds with the certainty and proportion of a great piece of music. The theme and its setting have been long and deeply considered; the farther we go the more the atmosphere pervades us; and a gradual knowledge of the character percolates as it were through the mere presentation of the scenes. The writing is as admirable as ever. Sir John Squire in the Observer. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 1417663294 (1-4176-6329-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil Wears Prada'Book summary:It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"
This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alix Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Disappointment Artist: and Other Essaysby Jonathan LethemISBN 1400076811 (1-4000-7681-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disappointment Artist: and Other Essays'Book summary:In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsessionfrom western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" has led him to the source of his beginnings as a writer. The Disappointment Artist is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethems richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life. A touching, deeply perceptive portrait of a writer in the making. [via]
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The Disenchantedby Budd SchulbergISBN 1556110278 (1-55611-027-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Double Lives: American Writers' Friendshipsby Richard R. LingemanISBN 1400060451 (1-4000-6045-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Library Editionby Z. Z. PackerISBN 1417676019 (1-4176-7601-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Library Edition'Book summary:An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart. In the title story (published in the New Yorker's summer 2000 Debut Fiction issue), a Yale freshman is sent to a psychotherapist who tries to get her--black, bright, motherless, possibly lesbian--to stop "pretending," when she is sure that "pretending" is what got her this far. "Speaking in Tongues" describes the adventures of an Alabama church girl of 14 who takes a bus to Atlanta to try to find the mother who gave her up. Looking around the Montgomery Greyhound station, she wonders if it has changed much since the Reverend King's days. She "tried to imagine where the 'Colored' and 'Whites Only' signs would have hung, then realized she didn't have to. All five blacks waited in one area, all three whites in another." Packer's prose is wielded like a kitchen knife, so familiar to her hand that she could use it with her eyes shut. This is a debut not to miss. --Regina Marler [via]
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Dylan Thomas: A Biographyby Paul FerrisISBN 1557782156 (1-55778-215-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Staffordby Kim Robert StaffordISBN 1555973892 (1-55597-389-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford'Book summary:With incredible insight and love, Kim Stafford offers a view into the remarkable life of his father, the poet William Stafford[via]
The unspoken deep affection he lived by was like the idea in his poem about the Eskimostheir disdain for "People who talk about God." In his world, a fact so pervasive as love never need be named.
William Stafford wrote a poem nearly every day of his life, most often before dawn, as he lay on a much-used couch that bore the imprint of his body after years of use. He was a prolific, highly acclaimed poet, famous pacifist, and extraordinary friend to nearly everyone he met. But Kim was given perhaps his father's greatest giftand greatest challengeto be his literary executor.
Carefully sifting through his father's papersthousands of poems written on napkins, grocery receipts, lettersKim follows a copious trail of words matched only by his father's silences. Kim is able to visit his father's life in a deeply personal way and, as a result, beautifully illuminates William Stafford as someone who was unafraid to stare into emptiness and to live a life so fully in the moment that he was able to touch countless lives with a single poem.More editions of Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford:
The Empress Of Ireland: The Chronicle Of An Unusual Friendshipby Christopher RobbinsISBN 1560257091 (1-56025-709-1)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Foreverby Josh KarpISBN 1556526024 (1-55652-602-4)
Hardcover, Chicago Review Pr
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The Getting of Wisdomby Henry Handel RichardsonISBN 1404305610 (1-4043-0561-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Half Brotherby Kenneth Steven, Lars Saabye ChristensenISBN 1559707151 (1-55970-715-1)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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The Half Brotherby Lars Saabye Christensen, Kenneth StevenISBN 1559707593 (1-55970-759-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaboratorsby Joe McCabe, Sophia QuachISBN 1560976179 (1-56097-617-9)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaborators'Book summary:The most intimate look yet into the life and mind of the bestselling author and creator of The Sandman.
Neil Gaiman is one of the most successful and versatile writers working today. He has become renowned not only for the consistently high quality of his writing but for his mastery of many media. He is an award-winning comic book writer (Sandman), novelist (American Gods), children's book author (The Wolves in the Walls), and television screenwriter (Neverwhere). Yet with all the fans hungry to know more about his work, there has not yet been a single major nonfiction book covering Gaiman's entire creative output. Until now.
Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators presents a thorough look at Gaiman's work not only through his eyes, but through the eyes of his many collaborators. Artists, writers, editors, musiciansover two-dozen creators share their thoughts on working with Gaiman and present a unique mosaic portrait of the writer whose name has become synonymous with modern fantasy.
Although the book's scope is not limited to Gaiman's best-selling comic book creation The Sandman, Hanging Out With the Dream King features comprehensive interviews with all of the major Sandman artists, including Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Bryan Talbot, and Jill Thompson, as well as well as rare and exclusive interviews with Sandman co-creators Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg.
And, much as Gaiman has done throughout his career, Hanging Out With the Dream King breaks down the walls of media and genre, presenting those who may have discovered the writer's work through one storytelling medium with doors through which they may find his other prodigious creations. Thus, admirers of Gaiman's children's books with Dave McKean will discover his adult work with Gene Wolfe and Terry Pratchett; fans of his novels will discover his comics; and everyone will have the chance to meet Gaiman's folk-rock bandsthe Flash Girls and Folk Underground. Musicians Alice Cooper and Tori Amos are also interviewed.
Illustrated with many unpublished photos and comic pages, this is the book Gaiman's fans have been waiting for. B/w illustrated (with 16 pp. in color). [via]
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Hemingway Traditionby Kristin ButcherISBN 1551432420 (1-55143-242-0)
Softcover, Orca Book Pub
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Her Name Was Lolaby Russell HobanISBN 1559707267 (1-55970-726-7)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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Home across the Roadby Nancy PeacockISBN 1563525097 (1-56352-509-7)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home across the Road'Book summary:Every family has secrets, but the Redds have more than most. Consider, for example, the fact that this North Carolina clan has two distinct branches, the white Redds and the black Redds, their former slaves. Through seven generations, their histories and their blood have mixed, culminating in the present-day occupants of Roseberry Plantation, solitary Coyle Redd and his black housekeeper (and distant cousin), China. When Coyle puts the dilapidated mansion up for auction, it would seem that the two families' shared past will finally come to an end; but in Nancy Peacock's remarkable saga, Home Across the Road, blood ties are not so easily severed. Skillfully jumping from present to past and back again, Peacock traces the Redd connection back to antebellum days when white plantation owner Jennis Redd fathered the child of his slave, Cally. When the boy, Cleavis, is 6 years old, Redd's jealous wife accuses him of stealing a pair of earrings that her own son really took, and has him sold away. In retaliation, Cally takes the earrings herself and buries them under the floor of her slave cabin. From this point on, the fortunes of the black Redds improve while those of the white Redds decline.
Peacock mixes a little magic into the parallel histories she tells, and conjures up an exquisite novel that is part ghost story, part meditation on the ineffable power of blood and history to bind people to a place, to each other, and to patterns of behavior that repeat themselves through the years. Home Across the Road is spare in its prose style but rich in the themes it mines. --Sheila Bright [via]
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A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bayby Felice PicanoISBN 1560234407 (1-56023-440-7)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Hungerby Knut HamsunISBN 1421990458 (1-4219-9045-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spiritby Brenda UelandISBN 1555972608 (1-55597-260-8)
Softcover, Graywolf Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit'Book summary:This book so speaks to the contemporary writer that it is nearly impossible to believe that it was originally published in 1938. In If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland sets forth not just a philosophy about how to write or how to create, but also about how to live. Beginning writers will certainly be encouraged by Ueland's words, but even the most experienced have much to glean from Ueland's simple wisdom. "Everybody," writes Ueland in the opening chapter, "is talented, original, and has something important to say." Finding that something important involves embracing creative idleness ("the imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering"), freeing "what we really think, from what we think we ought to think," and "thumb[ing] your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters." One must think, she says, "of telling a story, not of writing it." And when revising one's writing, she advises, "do not try to think of better words, more gripping words.... It is not yet deeply enough imagined." Finally, "whenever you find yourself writing a single word or phrase or page dutifully and with boredom, then leave it out.... If what you write bores you, it will bore other people." And just because If You Want to Write is passionate, sincere, and even spiritual, do not think it is not also witty. One footnote bluntly declaims, "No doubt my terms would horrify a psychologist but I do not care at all." Elsewhere Ueland titles a chapter "Why Women Who Do Too Much Housework Should Neglect It for Their Writing." Amen, sister! [via]
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James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1555460208 (1-55546-020-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Considered to be cast in a daring rhetorical mode, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. Originally published as a series, the novel continually interacts with Irish history and culture.
The title, James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Life of Charlotte Bronteby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 1417925434 (1-4179-2543-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte'Book summary:Two Volumes in One. Mrs. Gaskell's excellent Life of Charlotte Bronte roused a furor because of its candid statements about the Bronte family, particularly concerning the excesses of Branwell. Bronte, the English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre, who along with her sisters Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte, were almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. [via]
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Little Wilson and Big Godby Anthony BurgessISBN 1555841007 (1-55584-100-7)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1419130927 (1-4191-3092-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women, Louisa May Alcotts masterpiece of Childrens literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the storys center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with her desire to become a successful writer. The many appendices in this Broadview edition include materials on the early womens movement, the novels composition, and Alcotts literary influences. [via]
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Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Little Women: ISBN 1561385662 (1-56138-566-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Little Women: ISBN 1561795526 (1-56179-552-6)
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Little Womenby Lucy Corvino, Deanna McFaddenISBN 1402712367 (1-4027-1236-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.[via]
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially, love following the adventures of the four March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. This simpler version captures all the charm and warmth of the original.More editions of Little Women:
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Little Womenby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714580 (1-4027-1458-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
The beautiful Meg, artistic tomboy Jo, doomed Beth, and selfish Amy: since the publication of Little Women in 1869, these four sisters have become Americas most beloved literary siblings. Louisa May Alcotts rich and realistic portrait has inspired three movies and stirred the emotions of countless young girls. Set in New England during the Civil War, the novel follows the adventures of the March sisters as they struggle to pursue their dreams.More editions of Little Women:
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Little Women or Meg, Joe, Beth and Mayby Louisa May Alcott, Joe WheelerISBN 1561797448 (1-56179-744-8)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women or Meg, Joe, Beth and May'Book summary:Presented in their complete text and updated for easier reading, each story in the Great Stories Collection is truly unique. Each has been rigorously critiqued and selected for the quality of its Christian content, the value in its message, and its ability to bring and bind a family together. In-depth introductions detail both the authors and the times in which they lived. Many books feature original woodcut illustrations. Complete with thought-provoking questions, these books are keepsakes to be treasured for years to come. Perfect additions to the adult fiction section.
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. So begins the tale that introduces readers to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-four sisters who, despite the Civil War, manage to keep laughter on their lips and love in their hearts. Through illness and poverty, disappointment and sacrifice, the March sisters never forget what is truly important-their family. [via]
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Lives of the Poetsby Samuel JohnsonISBN 1404352236 (1-4043-5223-6)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Living With a Writerby Dale Salwak, Paul Theroux, Nadine Gordimer, Malcolm Bradbury, Margaret Drabble, John Updike, John Bayley, Ann ThwaiteISBN 1403904766 (1-4039-0476-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Lost Work of Stephen King : A Guide to Unpublished Manuscripts, Story Fragments, Alternative Versions, and Odditiesby Stephen J. SpignesiISBN 1559724692 (1-55972-469-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael KarpelsonISBN 1411683056 (1-4116-8305-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master And Margarita'Book summary:Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose. Among those caught up in the strange and inexplicable events that transpire in the capital are the Master, a writer whose life has been destroyed by Soviet repression, and his beloved Margarita. Their adventures reveal a story that began two thousand years ago in ancient Jerusalem - and its resolution will decide their fate. Translated by Michael Karpelson. [via]
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 1400095808 (1-4000-9580-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Memories Of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 1400095948 (1-4000-9594-8)
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Men Who Loved Meby Felice PicanoISBN 1560234423 (1-56023-442-3)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Original Story by: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywoodby Arthur LaurentsISBN 1557834679 (1-55783-467-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1406510025 (1-4065-1002-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
Passenger to Teheranby V. Sackville-WestISBN 1559210435 (1-55921-043-5)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell
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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1416500316 (1-4165-0031-6)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man'Book summary:Originally published in serial format, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce's early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. At the center of the novel is the protagonist Stephen Dedalus whose life is depicted from its various stages starting in childhood and moving through early adulthood. The language of the novel changes throughout the book to correspond with the artistic development of Stephen Dedalus as he ages and matures. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a masterful depiction of the process of self-discovery that is indicative of the early stages of everyone's life. [via]
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A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romanceby Jane JuskaISBN 1400060117 (1-4000-6011-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance'Book summary:Round-heeled is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuoussomeone who nowadays might be called easy. Its a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself, but then thats just the first of many surprises to be found in this poignant, funny, utterly unique memoir. Jane Juska is a smart, energetic divorcée who decided shed been celibate too long, and placed the following personal ad in her favorite newspaper, The New York Review of Books:
Before I turn 67next MarchI would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.
This closing reference was a nod to her favorite author, of course. The response was overwhelming, and Juska took a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the men who had replied. And since her ad made it clear that she wasnt expecting just hand-holding, her dates zipped from first base to home plate in record time.
Juska is a totally engaging, perceptive writer, funny and frank about her exploits. Its high time someone revealed the fact that older single people are as eager for sex and intimacy as their younger counterparts. Jane Juskas brave, honest memoir will probably raise eyebrows and blood pressure, but it will undoubtedly appeal to the very large audience of grown-up readers who will be fascinated and inspired by her daring adventure. [via]More editions of A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance:
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Running With Scissorsby Augusten BurroughsISBN 1417666943 (1-4176-6694-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running With Scissors'Book summary:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs's perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs's survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe [via]
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The Sandman Companionby Hy BenderISBN 1563896443 (1-56389-644-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Companion'Book summary:The Sandman was a groundbreaking and award-winning series that told the dark and tragic tale of Morpheus, the King of Dreams. A fascinating mythology of horror and consequence, this epic masterfully combined intriguing literature with captivating art. THE SANDMAN COMPANION is an exhaustive guide to this legend. Revealing hitherto undisclosed information and behind-the-scenes secrets, this book features in-depth interviews, never-before-seen illustrations, character origins, and story explanations and analysis. Also including excerpts from the original proposal for the series, this handbook is the perfect complement to the Sandman graphic novels. [via]
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The Sandman Companionby Neil Gaiman, Hy BenderISBN 1563894653 (1-56389-465-3)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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Shakespeare: The Biographyby Peter AckroydISBN 140007598X (1-4000-7598-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Silencesby Tillie OlsenISBN 1558614400 (1-55861-440-0)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silences'Book summary:[via]First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continentthe writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsens heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsens now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface.
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The Singular Mark Twain: A Biographyby Fred KaplanISBN 1400095271 (1-4000-9527-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Storytellerby Harold RobbinsISBN 1555043593 (1-55504-359-3)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Strange Case of Edward Goreyby Alexander TherouxISBN 1560973854 (1-56097-385-4)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Edward Gorey'Book summary:The Firecracker Alternative Book Award-winning look back at the life of the late artist Edward Gorey. Combining artistic analysis, a personal reminiscence of the artist Theroux knew for over 25 years, and an intimate familiarity with Gorey's oeuvre while drawing on exclusive interviews with the artist (the book was begun before Gorey's passing in 2000 at the age of 75 but completed just after), this book stands as the most comprehensive bio yet written about the beloved but reclusive and enigmatic artist. [via]
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Sweet, Savage Deathby Jane HaddamISBN 1558820337 (1-55882-033-7)
Softcover, Intl Polygonics Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet, Savage Death'Book summary:Murder, mayhem, and other unladylike behaviour erupt at the Third Annual Conference of American Writers of Romance where author Patience McKenna finds herself caught in an intrigue that would horrify her most devoted readers. Complete with a crime-solving cat, this Edgar-nominated whodunit is a clever behind-the-scenes look at the romance business - authors, agents, editors, publishers, and fans. [via]
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Swimming To Cambodiaby Spalding GrayISBN 1559362545 (1-55936-254-5)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swimming To Cambodia'Book summary:[via]It took courage to do what Spalding didcourage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our heartsmy heartbecause he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life. Eric Bogosian
Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous. The New York Times
In 2004, we mourned the loss of one of Americas true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Grays legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Grays singular artistry.
Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; Its a Slippery Slope; Grays Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.
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Sylvia Plath: A Literary Lifeby Linda Wagner-MartinISBN 1403916535 (1-4039-1653-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life'Book summary:Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death, including the publication of her Collected Poems--edited by Ted Hughes--which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of Plath will be examined along with the publication of Hughes's Birthday Letters. A chronology maps out key events and publications both in Plath's lifetime and posthumously.[via]More editions of Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life:
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The Tales of Hoffmanby Bob FingermanISBN 1560971878 (1-56097-187-8)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 1404333924 (1-4043-3392-4)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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Terrific Connections With Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers: Real Space and Virtual Linksby Toni Buzzeo, Jane KurtzISBN 1563087448 (1-56308-744-8)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 140679239X (1-4067-9239-X)
Softcover, Read Books
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Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estateby Jane JuskaISBN 1400063191 (1-4000-6319-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson A Very Unauthorized Biographyby Peter O. WhitmerISBN 1562827685 (1-56282-768-5)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writersby Janet Bukovinsky Teacher, Jenny PowellISBN 156138769X (1-56138-769-X)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writersby Jenny Powell, Janet BukovinskyISBN 1561384151 (1-56138-415-1)
Hardcover, Running Press
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The Write Track: How to Succeed As a Freelance Writer in Canadaby Betty Jane WylieISBN 1550024442 (1-55002-444-2)
Softcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd
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Writer to Writerby Brock Thoene, Bodie ThoeneISBN 1556610424 (1-55661-042-4)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Writing below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authorsby Michael RoweISBN 1563333635 (1-56333-363-5)
Hardcover, Islamic Texts Society
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Writing for the Web: Geeks' Editionby Crawford KilianISBN 1551803038 (1-55180-303-8)
Softcover, Self Counsel Pr
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Softcover, Self-Counsel Press, Incorporated
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Writing Freelanceby Christine A. AdamecISBN 1551802899 (1-55180-289-9)
Softcover, Self Counsel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Freelance'Book summary:The writing life has always held an aura of glamour and mystery for many people. As a writer, you meet famous and intriguing people, learn and write about fascinating topics, and set your own hours. But along with the glamour comes hard work. Writing is a business, and to be successful, you have to become an effective self-promoter, an able negotiator, an adept researcher, and a talented writer. Sound daunting? Not at all, if you follow the advice provided by Christine Adamec, an established freelance writer. Adamec clearly provides the key elements to lead you to a successful writing career. She will help you decide if you have the mindset of a freelance writer and will painlessly guide you through the steps on your way to profit and (possibly) fame. You can easily cut years off your path to success with this book, as you follow the advice on what you should do and learn to steer clear of errors commonly made by new writers. [via]
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Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with His Sonby Peter CareyISBN 1400078369 (1-4000-7836-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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