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A Dangerous Profession

A Book About the Writing Life

Frederick Busch St. Martin's Press

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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Who's Who in Shakespeare's England Alan and Veronica Palmer, Editors Palgrave Macmillan This major new reference book presents more than 700 biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries and richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	On Directing Interviews with Directors Edited by Gabriella Giannachi and Mary Luckhurst; Foreword by Peter Brook Palgrave Macmillan The profession of directing is barely a century old. On Directing considers the position of the director in theater and performance today. What is a director?...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Message in the Bottle How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other Walker Percy Picador In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller,...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Signposts in a Strange Land Essays Walker Percy; Edited with an Introduction by Patrick Samway Picador At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language,...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Still Acting Gay Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama John M. Clum Palgrave Macmillan The groundbreaking study of male homosexuality in modern drama, back in a revised and expanded edition.

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Later Auden Edward Mendelson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The definitive study of Auden's poems from 1939 to 1973. "For a poet like myself, an autobiography is redundant," W. H. Auden wrote to a friend, "since...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Early Auden Edward Mendelson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Early Auden remains the most penetrating, detailed, and informative examination we have of the great work produced by the young W. H. Auden in England before...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The American Writer Shaping a Nation's Mind Jack Cady St. Martin's Griffin Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The...

Hardcover : $23.95 Buy	Invisible Forms A Guide to Literary Curiosities Kevin Jackson Thomas Dunne Books Dedications, Titles, Epigraphs, Footnotes, Prefaces, Afterwords, Indexes... These and other "invisible" literary necessities form the skeletons of many a book,...

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Baby Precious Always Shines

Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

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Off and on, during the entire period they were together, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas wrote each other little love notes. Calling her "wifey" and most...

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Ex Libris Confessions of a Common Reader Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Imagining the Holocaust Daniel R. Schwarz Palgrave Macmillan In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	The Stephen King Universe The Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, and Hank Wagner Renaissance Books "I am coming to understand that Roland's world actually contains all the others of my making" --Stephen King With those words, from The Dark Tower: IV...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	In Search of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde McNally, Raymond and Florescu, Radu Renaissance Books

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Literary Feuds

A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe

Anthony Arthur Thomas Dunne Books

Fascinating feuds between famous writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Ernest Hemingway vs. Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson and Vladimir...

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Greene on Capri

A Memoir

Shirley Hazzard Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I...

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Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Shakespeare's Language Frank Kermode Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A magnum opus from our finest interpreter of The Bard The true biography of Shakespeare--and the only one we need to care about--is in his plays. Frank...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Styles of Radical Will Susan Sontag Picador Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film,...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling Lionel Trilling; Edited and with an Introduction by Leon Wieseltier Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Sylvia Plath A Biography Linda Wagner-Martin St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Poetry in the Making An Anthology Ted Hughes Faber and Faber, Inc. Drawn from Ted Hughes's celebrated programs for the BBC's "Listening and Writing" series, Poetry in the Making is a fresh, student-friendly discussion of what...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Writing to the Moment Selected Critical Essays, 1980-1995 Tom Paulin Faber and Faber, Inc. Subjects as diverse as Ian Paisley's rhetoric and T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism; poets including Elizabeth Bishop, John Clare, Louis MacNeice and Gerard Manley...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Literary Terms A Dictionary Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks For all those who have become entangled in the ever-burgeoning sphere of confusing literary terminology, Professors Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz provide clear...

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