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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

By: Wallace/Burn, Stephen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2017

Seller ID: 345828

ISBN: 082641477X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
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Old Songs in a New Cafe

By: Waller, Robert James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: January 2014

Seller ID: 57396

ISBN: 0446517984

Binding: Hardcover

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Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal

By: Walters, Wendy S.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Sarabande Books: August 2015

Seller ID: 463425

ISBN: 1941411045

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy S. Walters's essays deftly explore the psyches of cities such as Chicago, Detroit, New York, Portsmouth, and Washington, D.C. In "Cleveland," she interviews an African-American playwright who draws great reviews, but can't muster an audience. An on-air telephone chat between a DJ and his listeners drives a discussion of race and nutrition in "Chicago Radio." In "Manhattanville" the author, out for a walk with her biracial son, is mistaken for his nanny. Each essay explores societal questions--how eras of immense growth can leave us u...
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Collected Schizophrenias

By: Wang, Esme

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Seller ID: 462861

ISBN: 1555978274

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esm Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the "collected schizophrenias" but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang...
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Shiksa Goddess

By: Wasserstein, Wendy

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Publisher: April 2012

Seller ID: 142214

ISBN: 0375726039

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays-all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor.

The full range of Wasserstein's mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discov...
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Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960

By: Watson, Steven

Price: $7.00

Publisher: December 2012

Seller ID: 74979

ISBN: 0679423710

Binding: Hardcover

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Once Again to Zelda

By: Wegman-Geller

Price: $7.00

Publisher: February 2012

Seller ID: 180633

ISBN: 0399534628

Binding: Hardcover

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A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics. Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte BrAnte dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the bookas first edition. Dostoyevsky dedicated The Brothers Karamazov to his typist-turned-lover Anna Grigoyevna. And, as this collectionas title indicates, F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated his masterpiece The Great Gatsby to his wife Zelda. Often overlooked, a novelas dedication can say much about an author and his or her relationship to the pe...
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Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters

By: Weidman, Rich

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 405143

ISBN: 1617136018

Binding: Trade Paperback

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(FAQ). The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's prophetic, William Blakean-style poem "Howl" (1956) and William S. Burroughs' groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity tria...
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The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution

By: Weingarten, Marc

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Crown: November 2005

Seller ID: 340475

ISBN: 1400049148

Binding: Hardcover

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," . . In Cold Blood, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Armies of the Night . . ."

Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove ina...
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank

By: Weiss, Andrea

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Seller ID: 364678

ISBN: 0062513133

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century, this scrapbook of their work--along with Weiss's lively commentary--highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuana Barnes, and Sylvia Beach. 150 photos.
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Picshuas of H. G. Wells: A Burlesque Diary

By: Wells, H.G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: April 2016

Seller ID: 454086

ISBN: 0252030451

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This is an analysis of H.G. Wells' wealth of sketches and caricatures, through their content and style based on his life and writings. The text presents a portrait of a complex literary personality and his complicated relationship with a devoted collaborator, his wife.
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Vermeer in Bosnia

By: Weschler, Lawrence

Price: $8.00

Publisher: May 2014

Seller ID: 139524

ISBN: 0679442707

Binding: Hardcover

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From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding-author of "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder"-here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades, the majority of which have never before been gathered together in book form.
Lawrence Weschler is not simply a superb reporter, essayist, and cultural observer; he is also an uncanny collector and connector of wonders. In "Vermeer in Bosnia," whether he is reporting on the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars (and noticing, for example, how centuries earlier Vermeer had had to invent the peace an...
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Vermeer In Bosnia

By: Weschler, Lawrence

Price: $4.00

Publisher: December 2014

Seller ID: 473588

ISBN: 0679777407

Binding: Trade Paperback

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There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns-which is to say, practically everything.

Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century's Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In h...
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Backward Glance

By: Wharton, Edith

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Seller ID: 399864

ISBN: 06818311

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition

By: White, E. B

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper: November 2006

Seller ID: 478838

ISBN: 0060757086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White

Foreword by John Updike

These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, and honest. They evoke E.B. White's life in New York and in Maine at every stage of his life. They are full of memorable characters: White's family, the New Yorker staff and contributors, literary types and show business people, farmers from Maine and sophisticates from New York-Katherine S. White, Harold Ross, James Thurber, Alexander Woolcott, Groucho Marx, John Updike, and many, many mor...
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Letter of E.B. White

By: White, E. B.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: December 2014

Seller ID: 167576

ISBN: 006014601X

Binding: Hardcover

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Letters of E.B. White

By: White, E.B.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2012

Seller ID: 66636

ISBN: 0060906065

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Here is New York

By: White, E.B.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: August 2014

Seller ID: 76537

ISBN: 1892145022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.
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Essays of E.B. White

By: White, E.B.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2013

Seller ID: 212201

ISBN: 0060906626

Binding: Trade Paperback

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One Man's Meat

By: White, E.B.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2013

Seller ID: 258192

ISBN: 0884481921

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
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