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The Copenhagen Papers
An Intrigue
Michael Frayn and David Burke
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One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London...
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Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody
Ian Frazier
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Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling...
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Gone to New York
Adventures in the City
Ian Frazier; Foreword by Jamaica Kincaid
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Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and...
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Lamentations of the Father
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Ian Frazier
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Ian Frazier is unquestionably one of America's greatest living humorists, a writer with a distinct, generous sensibility and a thousand different voices. His...
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Feeling as a Foreign Language
The Good Strangeness of Poetry
Alice Fulton
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In Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they...
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Looking for Anne of Green Gables
The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
Irene Gammel
St. Martin's Griffin
In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne...
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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
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"'What does it take to be good at something, when failure is so easy?' asks writer/physician Gawande . . . Diligence, ingenuity and 'doing right' . . . Gawande illustrates each of these qualities with stories from his own experience, [and] his observations of and conversations with other physicians . . . For young doctors . . . Gawande suggests five strategies: Ask unscripted questions, don't complain, 'count something' (be a scientist as well as a doctor), write something (to make yourself part of a larger world) and change in response to new ideas. A must-read for medical professionals-and a discerning, humanizing portrait of doctors at work for the rest of us."—
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The Long Recessional
The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
David Gilmour
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“Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour’s] assessment of the political background of Kipling’s writings is exemplary.” —Earl L....
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Can Poetry Matter?
Essays on Poetry and American Culture
Dana Gioia; New Introduction by the Author
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"This book is destined to be a classic."—
Michael J. Bugeja,
Columbus Dispatch
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Disappearing Ink
Poetry at the End of Print Culture
Dana Gioia
Graywolf Press Paper
"Today people may read fewer poems than ever. But they listen to more of them—good news, says Mr. Gioia, for those who believe poetry is not now, and never will be, just for poets."—
The Wall Street Journal
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Many Circles
New and Selected Essays
Albert Goldbarth
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Many Circles collects the best of Goldbarth's three earlier essay collections, along with several new pieces. Goldbarth, whom Joyce Carol Oates has called "a...
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Prince of Stories
The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette
St. Martin's Griffin
Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical...
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Living in Hope and History
Notes from Our Century
Nadine Gordimer
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"Gripping and important . . . A rare glimpse of the crumbling of the last bastion of colonialism, told by a writer of consummate skill."—
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Our Purpose
The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007
Al Gore
Rodale Books
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The Solitude of Self
Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Vivian Gornick
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"What a potent book this is! What a boon to be reminded that politics, like art, demands bold thought and unceasing imagination."—
Margo Jefferson,
The New York Times
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The White Goddess
A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
Robert Graves
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The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and...
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Writing in the Dark
Essays on Literature and Politics
David Grossman; Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Picador
"Grossman's latest collection of essays and speeches,
Writing in the Dark
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Writing in the Dark
is less a work of literary criticism or political analysis than an extended rumination on the struggle and the thrill of shaping words into stories and reclaiming their meaning and beauty from the 'language defrauders and language rapists.' The book is a response to a question Grossman first explored in
See Under: Love
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Eyal Press,
The Nation
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The Bars of Atlantis
Selected Essays
Durs Grünbein; Edited by Michael Eskin; Translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This landmark collection of essays by one of the world’s greatest living authors makes Durs Grünbein’s wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English...
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Obedience, Struggle and Revolt
David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"That David Hare writes with intelligence, insight and passion is no surprise. What blows you away in this extraordinary, compelling collection is his deep and heartbreaking humanity."—
Stephen Daldry
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Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya Hartman
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"An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present and a welcome illustration of the powers of innovative scholarship to help us better understand how history shapes identity. But the book is also—this must be stressed—splendidly written, driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts. She combines a novelist's eye for telling detail with the blunt, self-aware voice of those young writers who have revived the American coming-of-age story into something more engaging and empathetic than the tales of redemption or of the exemplary life well lived, patterned on Henry Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass."—
Elizabeth Schmidt,
The New York Times Book Review
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Young Romantics
The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives
Daisy Hay
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Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth...
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The Redress of Poetry
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not...
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Preoccupations
Selected Prose, 1968-1978
Seamus Heaney
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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern...
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Finders Keepers
Selected Prose 1971-2001
Seamus Heaney
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"Heaney is one of the great living poets . . . and as this new selection of his essays and lectures shows, he has written often and beautifully about poets, poems, and poetry in general . . . [
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Adam Kirsch,
The Boston Globe
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