Essays, Criticism, Memoirs
GREAT SHORT BOOKS: A YEAR OF READING--BRIEFLY (SIGNED)
Written by Davis, Kenneth C
This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the "perfect gift for busy bibliophiles" (BookPage). Experience the joys of literature with this this "exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer" (The New York Times Book Review): a compulsively readable, deeply engaging discussion of great short novels
MY PINUP
Written by Als, Hilton
In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race.
ON GIRLHOOD: 15 STORIES FROM THE WELL-READ BLACK GIRL LIBRARY
Featuring stories by: Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Rita Dove, Camille Acker, Toni Cade Bambara, Amina Gautier, Alexia Arthurs, Dana Johnson, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwidge Danticat, Shay Youngblood, Paule Marshall, and Zora Neale Hurston.
ABOUT FACE
Written by Giraldi, William
Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston.
VICTORY IS ASSURED: UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS OF STANLEY CROUCH
Written by Crouch, Stanley
With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch--a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all time--was Rabelaisian both in stature and in intellectual appetite.
PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS: REPORTS FROM A HAUNTED PRESENT
Written by Horn, Dara
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager.
JERSEY BREAKS: BECOMING AN AMERICAN POET
Written by Pinsky, Robert
In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet.
SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS
Written by Forshaw, Barry
The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; André Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'.
PHILIP LARKIN: LETTERS HOME
Written by Larkin, Philip
The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister.
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