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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$4.64 - $10.80

Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$13.00 - $25.00

Nicholson Baker - Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

In an exposT of contemporary library policies, the best-selling author of Vox describes how such institutions have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies and calling for t... Read more

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$8.37 - $9.89

Sherod Santos - A Poetry of Two Minds

This collection of 13 essays (10 of which were published previously in literary journals) focuses on how poems have a mind of their own unbeknownst to the poet. Subject matter includes the work of Shelley, Bishop, and Charles Wright. ... Read more

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$10.00 - $20.00

H.J. Jackson - Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what's not present in the margin: Fermat's last theorem is famously missing because he allegedly found the margins too small; sometimes they deplore what is: De Quincey admonished Wordsworth f... Read more

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$20.00 - $42.00

William H. Gass - Finding a Form: Essays

"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . [These] pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation to their thought; various species of the avant-garde from Pierre de Ronsard to Degas... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$20.00 - $26.00

Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and American movies. He also comments pungently on a variety of literary works, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ... Read more

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$10.00 - $12.00

Robert Darnton - The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

The best-selling books in France during the waning decades of the ancien regime were not the outlawed works of great philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, but other books, also banned by the government, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was ... Read more

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$11.00 - $12.00

Vivian Gornick - The Men in My Life

In this collection of literary essays, Vivian Gornick brilliantly interrogates her aesthetic involvement with such "great men" of literature as H.G. Wells, V.S. Naipaul, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, and Phillip Roth. Neither a feminist screed not a summary indictment, THE MEN IN MY LIFE ca... Read more

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$10.00 - $11.00

Seth Lerer - Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

This overview of literature for young people thoughtfully examines the importance of children's stories throughout Western history. Seth Lerer places such classic works as ALICE'S ADVENDURES IN WONDERLAND, THE GIVING TREE, and the Harry Potter series in the context of their times in order to explain... Read more

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$13.00 - $13.00

Rick Bass - Why I Came West

A noted naturalist, novelist, and environmental activist chronicles his love affair with the mystique of the American West as a landscape, an idea, and a way of life as he recalls his discovery of the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana and the impact of the wild landscape on his writing career and ... Read more

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$15.00 - $16.00

Reginald Shepherd - Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

Poet Reginald Shepherd died in 2008, making this, sadly, his first and last book of prose. This collection of his essays, articles, and reviews clearly establishes the liberatory power of poetry and literature. Shepherd's work, including the autobiographical essay about his childhood in the Bronx, a... Read more

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$14.00 - $17.00

Cynthia Ozick - Quarrel & Quandary: Essays

Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She ... Read more

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$7.77 - $11.05

Claudia Roth Pierpont - Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

Essays exploring the lives and literary achievements of twelve women writers--including Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary McCarthy--focus on how they shaped beliefs about issues ranging from sexual freedom to racial issues to politics. ... Read more

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$8.00 - $13.00

Rick Bass - Why I Came West

A noted naturalist, novelist, and environmental activist chronicles his love affair with the mystique of the American West as a landscape, an idea, and a way of life as he recalls his discovery of the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana and the impact of the wild landscape on his writing career and ... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$9.00 - $11.00

Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Newbery Award-winning writer Paula Fox recollects the tragedy of her upbringing in this woeful memoir. With an alcoholic father and a mother who aggressively rejected her, Fox was raised by a collection of diversely irresponsible parties whose eccentricities and cruelties she had to find ways to ove... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$1.65 - $11.20

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