Category: Literary Non-fiction

Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends

Price: $8.00

Publisher: University Press of Florida : June 2002

Seller ID: 472503

ISBN-13: 9780813025360

"Excellent. This is a fine, and unusual, collection of literary Americana."--Atlantic"Fine comic moments of truth."--New York Times Book Review"An invaluable source of literary history."--Publishers Weekly This is the story of one of the most famous literary "sets" of the twentieth century. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of a group including Ernest Hemingway and his wives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Phillip Barry, and many others. They personified the jazz age and the lost generation. The ...
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Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Now Write! Series)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: TarcherPerigee : February 2014

Seller ID: 775414

ISBN-13: 9780399165559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh out an enthralling fantasy quest, or dream up a bloodcurdling plot twist, including: -Harlan Ellison (R), on crafting the perfect story title -Jack Ketchum, on how economy of language helps create ...
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The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, Vol. 1: Alchemy with Words (The Compete Guide Series)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dragon Moon Press : January 2006

Seller ID: 468916

ISBN-13: 9781896944098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jeanine Berry, FictionFactor.com, author of Dayspring Dawning and Daysprint Destiny The Complete Guide lives up to its name and goes beyond the ordinary. Written by new and established voices of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Alchemy With Words offers something for writers at all levels. Its sage advice will help you avoid many amateur mistakes. Explore World Building, Religions, Food, Fighting & Weaponry and much more, to craft an exceptional story.
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The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Seller ID: 482046

ISBN-13: 9781847677945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. All six of these writers were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable...
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Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Books : October 2016

Seller ID: 494873

ISBN-13: 9780143111764

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan Cheever? What does Martin Amis have to say about how Saul Bellow's love life influenced his writing? Vanity Fair has published many of the most interesting writers and thinkers of our time. Collected here for the first time are forty-one essays exploring how writers influence one another and our cul...
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What's Wrong with Antitheory?

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic : November 2019

Seller ID: 537249

ISBN-13: 9781350096110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and - although seemingly opposite - the two impulses have long been intertwined. Antitheory is the first book to explore this vexed relationship from the 20th century to the present day, examining antitheory both in its historical context and its current state. The book brings together leading scholars from a wide range of Humanities disciplines to ask such questions as: - What is antitheory? - What does it mean to be against theory in the new millennium? - What is the current state of post-theory, the alleged deaths of theory, and the cr...
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Glossary of Literary Terms, Eighth Edition

By: Abrams, M.H.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : February 2012

Seller ID: 181487

ISBN-13: 9781413002188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

First published in 1957, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students.
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Twenty- Eight Artists and Two Saints

By: Acocella, Joan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : July 2013

Seller ID: 738145

ISBN-13: 9780375424168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From one of our most admired cultural critics ("A marvelous, canny writer"--Terry Castle, "London Review of Books"), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our time--writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors--and two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. Among the people discussed: Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Joseph Roth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth. What unites the book is Acocella's interest in the making ...
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Sideshow U.S.A.

By: Adams, Rachel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: : June 2010

Seller ID: 681676

ISBN-13: 9780226005393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, the horrific, and the amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts. Freak shows, she contends, have survived because of their capacity for reinvention. Empty of any inherent meaning, the freak's body becomes a stage for playing out some of the twentieth century's most pressing social and political concerns, from debates ab...
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Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer

By: Adams/Sklenicka, Carol

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Scribner : December 2019

Seller ID: 590010

ISBN-13: 9781451621310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams," a New York Times critic said of the prolific short-story writer and bestselling novelist whose dozens of published stories and eleven novels illuminate the American Century. Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl's clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictu...
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Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

By: Addonizio, Kim

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : February 2009

Seller ID: 809932

ISBN-13: 9780393334166

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The creative process is just that," maintains Kim Addonizio. "Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio meditates on her own process as she encourages writers to explore both their personal and political worlds, to seek inspiration from poets new and old, and to discover the rich poetic resources of the Internet. Lively, accessible, and informative, Ordinary Genius?provides wisdom gleaned through personal experience and offers a heady variety of writing exercises. Chapters on gender, addiction, race and cl...
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By: Adler, Mortimer J.,Doren, Charles Van

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Touchstone : August 1972

Seller ID: 812290

ISBN-13: 9780671212094

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." -Farheed Zakaria Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them--from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Rea...
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AE's Letters to Minanlabain

By: AE

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 353347

ISBN: 1226ALM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

By: Agee, James

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam Books : January 1963

Seller ID: 666981

ISBN: B000KSC6PY

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1999

By: Alcalay, Ammiel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: City Lights Publishers : January 2001

Seller ID: 572520

ISBN-13: 9780872863606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice.As a poet, translator, critic and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Republic and Middle East Report, as well as for such literary journals as Grand Street, Conjunctions and Paper Air. In Memories of Our Future, the unique intellectual and political path forged by Alcalay over the past fifteen years has now been collected in one volume. In a mix of personal narrative, political commentary and literary criticism, Alcalay surveys diverse subjects, among them Mediterranean culture, Arabi...
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Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography

By: Alcott, Louisa May/Cheever, Susan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 2011

Seller ID: 789673

ISBN-13: 9781416569923

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved heroine Jo March. In Louisa May Alcott, Susan Cheever, the acclaimed author of American Bloomsbury, returns to Concord, Massachusetts, to explore the life of one of its most iconic residents. Based on extensive research, journals, and correspondence, Cheever's biography chronicles all aspects of Alcott's life, fr...
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Eden's Outcasts: Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

By: Alcott/Matteson, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : April 2014

Seller ID: 533891

ISBN-13: 9780393333596

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted--her father's understanding--seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.

Louisa May Alcott: A Biography

By: Alcott/Stern, Madeleine B.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Northeastern University Press : August 1999

Seller ID: 812880

ISBN-13: 9781555534172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Madeleine B. Stern, one of the world's leading Alcott scholars, shows how the breadth of Alcott's work, ranging from Little Women to sensational thrillers and war stories, serves as a reflection of a fascinating and complicated life dotted with poverty and riches alike, hard menial work, physical suffering relieved by opiates, and the acclaim of literary success.
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A history of Soviet literature, 1917-1964;: From Gorky to Solzhenitsyn

By: Alexandrova, Vera

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Anchor Books : January 1964

Seller ID: 672454

ISBN: B0007DVXLA

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Algren: A Life

By: Algren, Nelson

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 715851

ISBN-13: 9781613735329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Chicago Writers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year (2017) Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography (2017) A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, lived an outsider's life himself. He spent a month in prison as a young man for the theft of a typewriter; his involvement in Marxist groups earned him a lengthy FBI dossier; and he spent much of his life palling around with the sorts of drug addicts, prostitutes, and poor laborers who inspired and populated his novels and short stories. Most today know Algre...
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Category: Literary Non-fiction