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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 : $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

Edited by Kay Turner Stonewall Inn Editions

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...

Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Lesbian Biography

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

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	Isak Dinesen The Life of a Storyteller Judith Thurman Picador Winner of the National Book Award A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest...

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	Simone De Beauvoir A Life, a Love Story Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	A Literary Companion to Rome Including Ten Walking Tours John Varriano St. Martin's Griffin Rome, the Eternal City; it is here, perhaps more than anywhere else, that the visitor is conscious of the echoes of antiquity. Artists, writers, historians,...

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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers

1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

Dorothy L. Sayers; Edited by Barbara Reynolds St. Martin's Press

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Trade Paperback : $10.95 Buy	The Diary of Emily Dickinson Jamie Fuller St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	With William Burroughs Victor Bockris St. Martin's Griffin Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris...

Hardcover : $27.95 Buy	What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism Joanna Russ St. Martin's Press

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Girls Guide to Taking Over the World Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution Karen Green and Tristan Taormino, Editors; Introduction by Ann Magnuson St. Martin's Griffin In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines. On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made...

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Meditations on Middle-Earth

New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more

Edited by Karen Haber; Illustrated by John Howe St. Martin's Griffin

NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal...

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The Unofficial Patricia Cornwell Companion

A Guide to the Bestselling Author's Life and Work

George Beahm Minotaur Books

The Unofficial Patricia Cornwell Companion is the first and only book devoted to this bestselling author and her beloved heroine, forensic pathologist Dr. Kay...

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Trade Paperback : $9.95 Buy	There Is Nothing Like a Thane! The Lighter Side of Macbeth Clive Francis St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books There is Nothing Like a Thane is a follow-up to Clive Francis's highly successful There is Nothing Like a Dane! The Lighter Side of Hamlet. Thane is a...

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The Complete Stephen King Universe

A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King

Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, and Hank Wagner St. Martin's Griffin

The myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe. The Complete Stephen King...

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Exploring the Matrix

Visions of the Cyber Present

Edited by Karen Haber St. Martin's Griffin

A collection of essays written by today's top science fiction authors on the Matrix, cyberpunk and the future.

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	The Elsinore Appeal People vs. Hamlet New York Bar Association St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Andre and Oscar The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde Jonathan Fryer St. Martin's Griffin In the Autumn of 1891, Oscar Wilde set about conquering literary Paris. Gide was dazzled by the Irishman's energy and verve, but was driven to the edge of a...

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Living the Spirit Will Roscoe, Coordinating Editor St. Martin's Griffin

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