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Report copyright infringementby Bill Roorbach (Author)Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, family, and place, it begins with his honeymoon on a wine farm in France's Loire Valley and closes with the birth of his daughter and he and his wife's return to their beloved Maine. These essays blend journalism, memoir, personal narrative, nature writing, cultural criticism, and insight into...

Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses - Hardcover

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by Jean Menzies (Editor)The stories of the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and strange; lives intertwine and behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. In Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses Jean ...

Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Paperback

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by Bell Hooks (Author), Mikki Kendall (Introduction by)"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."--bell hooks bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and professor. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell used her pen name to center attention on her ideas and to honor her courageous great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks's unflinching dedication to her work carved deep groo...

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Report copyright infringementby Ever Jones (Author)A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones's own narrative of midlife gender transition. Jones takes up a tradition of writing--about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West--long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and mak...

In Love and Trust: Letters from a Zen Master - Paperback

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by Thich Nhat Hanh (Author)Experience Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh's expressions of love, connection, and wisdom through deep and personal letters--now published in English for the very first time. Widely recognized for his profound yet accessible teachings on the art of mindful living, Thich Nhat Hanh lived a rich life dedicated to fostering community and connection within and outside of the monastery walls. In Love and Trust offers a striking look at Thich Nhat Hanh as seen through his intima...

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Report copyright infringementby Ren Cedar Fuller (Author)Winner of the 2024 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, this large-hearted personal essay collection by Ren Cedar Fuller invites us to imagine a more generous way of being in the world, drawing on Fuller's experiences as a daughter, sister, mother, teacher, and patient. A father's hurtful rigidity becomes slightly more comprehensible when viewed through a lens of neurodivergence, and a mother's well-timed lie allows her children to see an esc...

Oxford Latin Course: College Edition: Readings and Vocabulary - Paperback

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by Maurice Balme (Author), James Morwood (Author)Adapted to better meet the needs of American college students, The Oxford Latin Course, College Edition, retains its trademark reading-based approach, but does so now in two companion volumes--Readings and Vocabulary and Grammar, Exercises, Context--that cover all of the topics essential to a first-year Latin course. OTHER NEW FEATURES: * Streamlined organization that focuses more closely on the life of the Roman poet Horace * Additional and ...

Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey - Hardcover

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by Elena Ferrante (Author), Ann Goldstein (Translator)One of The Guardian's Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend. The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to hide her identity in the hope that readers would focus on her body of work. But in this volume, she invites us into Elena Ferrante's workshop and offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk--those drawers from which emerged her thre...

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey - Hardcover

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by Edward Gorey (Author), Tom Fitzharris (Editor)On the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations--illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously playful selections from the correspondence, all never before seen by the public until now. From Ted to Tom will be published in the centenary year of Edward Gorey's birth. When Tom Fitzharris met Edward "Ted" Gorey in 1974, the two quickly struck up a...

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Report copyright infringementby Marguerite Duras (Author), Olivia Baes (Translator), Emma Ramadan (Translator)The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen. Six Films is the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in...

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Chartier (Author)Ms. Chartier enjoys reading tarot cards as a medium for guidance and interpreting her inner most thoughts and feelings about her life. She uses the story of the hero's journey through the major arcana cards in the tarot deck for the poems in this book. Poems are written for The Fool card through The Moon card, cards 0-18, as Ms. Chartier feels that is currently where she sits on her healing journey. Number of Pages: 36 ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Updike (Author), James Schiff (Editor)The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers--a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days. As James Schiff writes in the introduction to this volume, of the writer who would eventually "express himself in written form as copiously and as elegantly as any American writer" before him...

Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale - Paperback

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by Paul Yamazaki (Author), Rick Simonson (Foreword by)Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco; the care and prowess of his approach to book buying; his upbringing in a Japanese American family in Southern California and moving to San Francisco at the height of revolutionary foment; working with legendary figu...

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by Sei Shonagon (Author), Meredith McKinney (Translator), Meredith McKinney (Introduction by)The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period, describing the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion, and whim dominated, while harsh reality was kept firmly at a dist...

The Explorers Club Presents: Letters from the Edge: Stories of Curiosity, Bravery, and Discovery

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Report copyright infringementby The Explorers Club (Author), Jeff Wilser (Author)An exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past century For centuries, explorers from all over the globe have traveled the far reaches of what the world has to offer, helping us expand the map, learn about other cultures, and move the needle of human knowledge. But an explorer's work isn'...

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Report copyright infringementby Zadie Smith (Author)"Smart, somber...There's pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle with her own dynamic subjectivity." - The New York Times Book Review A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years. She ...

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Pinto (Author)Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers' domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers.Pinto brings a new pe...

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide - Paperback

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by Eric Magrane (Editor), Christopher Cokinos (Editor), Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)A land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and pause, hawks hunt like wolves, and bobcats skulk in creosote. Both literary anthology and hands-on field guide, The Sonoran Desert is a groundbreaking book that melds art and science. It captures the stunning biod...

A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods - Paperback

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by Amar S. Baadj (Editor)A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and...

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present - Paperback

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by Phillip Lopate (Author)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, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to off...

Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook: English Translation, with an Introduction and Glossary - Paperback

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by Nawal Nasrallah (Author)The Kanz al-fawāʾid fī tanwīʿ al-mawāʾid, a fourteenth-century cookbook, is unique for its variety and comprehensive coverage of contemporary Egyptian cuisine. It includes, in addition to instructions for the cook, a treasure trove of 830 recipes of dishes, digestives, refreshing beverages, and more.It is the only surviving cookbook from a period when Cairo was a flourishing metropolis and a cultural haven for people of diverse ethnicities and nationalities. Now ava...

The Argonautika by Orpheus: Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity - Hardcover

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by Alexandra Maria Madela (Author)Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, but the anonymous author of the Argonautika by Orpheus disagreed. This book, the first English monograph on this late antique epic poem, demonstrates that the idea of competing with Homer is central to the Argonautika by Orpheus. Through a series of case-studies on the poem's diction and compositional technique, it proposes a novel approach. ...

Sure Do Wish You'd Get Ye One Of These Here Taters: An Essay on Cormac McCarthy's Suttree - Paperback

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by William K. Gillespie (Author)This is an essay about Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. Originally written for a class taught by David Foster Wallace, this essay includes an index of all scenes and characters, making it a definitive Suttree reference. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 12, 2020

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings - Paperback

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by James Baldwin (Author), Randall Kenan (Editor)From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century--a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume. "An absorbing portrait of Baldwin's time--and of him." --New York Review of BooksJames Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin d...

Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire

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Report copyright infringementby D. J. Waldie (Author), Rosecrans Baldwin (Foreword by)Acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles--earth, water, air and fire--exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness. "A love letter to Los Angeles" -- Alta magazine In Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie continues his singular meditation on Los Angeles: a place of contradictions, dr...

The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians - Hardcover

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by David M. Rubenstein (Author), Carla Hayden (Foreword by)Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand. -- David McCullough on John Adams -- Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson -- Ron Ch...

Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

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Report copyright infringementby Margot Atwell (Editor), Magdalene Visaggio (Contribution by), Grace Lavery (Contribution by)Queer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections wit...

The Book of Kin: On Absence, Love, and Being There

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Eli Bowen (Author)"The Book of Kin is an expansive experience . . . beautiful, brave, and inventive."--Hanif AbdurraquibA remarkable debut that explores the imperfect ways we care for one another, and how we seek repair when care fails."What's our obligation to each other?" asks Jennifer Eli Bowen in this propulsive exploration of community, solitude, and love. Drawing on her experiences as a mother, daughter, and founder of the Minnesota Prison Writin...

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Report copyright infringementby Osamu Dazai (Author)Three stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend's most controversial and exhilarating early-career writing with first-time and original translations. "Retrograde" traces the life of an anguished youth in reverse; "Das Gemeine" features an aspiring literato with a dark past who hitches his wagon to an eccentric violinist; "Blossom-Leaves and the Spirit Whistle"...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwidge Danticat (Author)A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding them...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Vendler (Author)In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience. Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler addresses the work of a wide range of ...

Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher William Blackwell (Author), Deborah Zalesne (Author), Kwaneta Harris (With)"These compelling reﬂections by people who have been entrapped within the tortures of solitary, should rekindle our abolitionist impulses at an especially critical moment in our history" - Angela Y. Davis "Oﬀers an indispensable tool to campaigns for abolition everywhere" - Juan E. Méndez, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture "Powerful...These excruciating accounts from pr...