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By Charles Bukowski. 2015
Collection of previously unpublished correspondence by the author of Pulp (DB 40326) and The Pleasures of the Damned (DB 66380),…
discussing the art of creation with publishers, editors, friends, and peers. Shares the joys and tribulations of not only writing, but writing for publication. 2015By Ian Buruma. 2016
Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger were German-Jewish immigrants living in England. Their grandson weaves the story of their marriage, using letters…
written between the two as they faced separation, anti-Semitism, and the difficulties of war. Depicts how their marriage remained strong throughout it all. Some violence. 2016By Linda Bierds. 2014
Collection of thirty-three poems by the author of Ghost Trio (DB 41011). Uses the conundrum of Roget's Illusion--that a wheel…
moving forward when filmed appears to be moving backward or not at all--as the beginning metaphor for many of the pieces. 2014By Rick Bragg. 2015
Essays about life in the American South by the author of popular memoirs like All Over but the Shoutin' (DB…
46142). The seventy-two essays, many of which originally appeared in Southern Living magazine, are broken down into categories of "Home," "Table," "Place," "Craft," and "Spirit."2015By Christy Wampole. 2015
Collection of fourteen essays by American-born French and Italian professor explores American culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first…
centuries. Explores cultivated lifestyles such as "hipsterism," communication between generations, regional influences on expression such as "southern niceness," and the ways feminism is expressed in the movie Labyrinth, among other subjects. 2015By Jane Hirshfield. 2015
A collection of ten essays on the power of poetry. Poet Hirshfield looks at poems of varied styles and time…
periods and uses them to show how reading poetry can transform readers, inviting reflection about their own lives and the wider world. 2015By Donald Hall. 2014
Former United States Poet Laureate and author of Unpacking the Boxes (DB 68474), Hall (born 1928) ruminates on the life…
he has lived, as well as lives of his ancestors. Discusses writing, smoking and drinking, and traveling through post-WWII Europe. 2014By Nikki Giovanni. 2013
Collection of seventy-eight poems and essays by the author of The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 (DB 69494). "Artichoke…
Soup" is a paean to a favorite meal. Other subjects examined include nature, music, friends, and family. 2013By Sandra Kitt, Jacquelin Thomas, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, J. D Mason. 2013
Four inspirational stories. In "Signs of Light" Brittany's young son is diagnosed with leukemia, but she finds help from an…
unexpected source. In "Survival Instincts" Lynn, a librarian, forgives her attacker and helps him out. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2006By Kathleen Jamie. 2013
Fourteen essays explore connections within the natural world. In "Pathologies" the author reflects on her mother's death and examines the…
role of diseases in our lives. "Three Ways of Looking at St Kilda" details three trips the author took to the island off the coast of Scotland. 2012By Elizabeth Gilbert, Jason Wilson. 2013
Author of Eat, Pray, Love (DB 61789) edits nineteen previously published travel essays infused with a sense of marvel and…
wonder. In "The Way I've Come" author Judy Copeland describes backpacking along the border of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. 2013By Abba May Alcott. 2012
LaPlante compiles the letters and diaries of Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877), the mother of Louisa, the inspiration for Marmee in…
Little Women (BR 11778), and LaPlante's great aunt. Abigail's writings, organized by topic and chronology, detail her thoughts on everything from marriage and motherhood to slavery and suffrage. 2012By George Gordon Byron Byron. 1994
Selections from lyric and narrative verse composed by British romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824). Includes poems from Hebrew Melodies, Hours…
of Idleness, and Don Juan, as well as occasional pieces and The Vision of Judgment. 1994By David Lehman, Mark Doty. 2012
Seventy-five poems selected by 2008 National Book Award winner Mark Doty. Features the works of Sherman Alexie, Terrance Hayes, 2012-2013…
U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, and others. In "Improvisation on Yiddish" Robert Pinsky, editor of Poems to Read (DB 55374), reflects on his family's native language. 2012By Meredith Maran. 2013
Twenty essays by popular authors on the reasons behind their pursuit of writing. Sue Grafton, author of A is for…
Alibi (DB 35069), ruminates on the source of "writer's block" and David Baldacci discusses his compulsion for writing. Also includes Isabel Allende, Jodi Picoult, and others. 2013By Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee. 2013
Collection of letters exchanged between J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for literature, and Paul Auster, author of Winter Journal (DB…
75501), begun in July 2008, shortly after they met. Coetzee and Auster discuss the nature of friendship, cultural taboos, and books they have read, among other topics. 2013By William Zinsser. 2012
Collection of fifty-eight of journalist Zinsser's essays previously published on the American Scholar website. Topics include culture and arts, the…
craft of writing, the tech age, and language. In "Hats Off" Zinsser ruminates on the state of men's hats and where to store them. 2013By Daniel Adam Mendelsohn. 2009
« Dans Les Disparus, Daniel Mendelsohn partait en quête de l'histoire de sa famille ; avec L'Étreinte fugitive, il s'est…
livré à une quête infiniment plus intime. De l'écriture rhapsodique et classique qui est la sienne, il fait revivre son enfance entre sa mère, « l'institutrice », la toute-belle, et son père, « le mathématicien », celui qui répare, construit et se collette aux choses ; une enfance peuplée d'êtres, frères et soeurs, parents juifs âgés, avec, au centre, son grand-père, ce dandy mystérieux et raconteur d'histoires. C'est pendant ses années d'étudiant dans l'exotique Sud américain que le jeune homme se découvre une passion jumelée pour les langues anciennes et les beaux garçons. Dès lors, la recherche de la « grammaire de son identité », de ce que veut dire être un homme, suivra des méandres surprenants, bouleversants. Car, lorsqu'une amie lui propose d'incarner une « figure paternelle » auprès de l'enfant qu'elle porte, il accepte et se prend à s'attacher si fort à lui qu'il va, petit à petit, partager sa vie entre Chelsea, le quartier où vivent les « garçons » de New York, et la banlieue où habitent son amie et leur petit garçon. » -- 4e de couvBy Harold Bloom. 2010
Literary critic Harold Bloom compiles the final poems of one hundred poets and supplies commentary for each. His anthology proceeds…
in chronological order, beginning with Edmund Spenser, and includes Andrew Marvell, William Blake, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, and Agha Shahid Ali. 2010By Marcy Knopf-Newman. 1993
Twenty-eight stories written in the 1920s and 1930s by fourteen African American women. Most were originally published in magazines and…
chronicle the struggles of race, gender, and poverty. In the title piece, a woman passes for white until her husband's bigotry breaks her silence. Violence and strong language. 1993