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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life.**
In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment,...
The First Bad Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The instant New York Times bestseller is “astonishing…In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime” (Vanity Fair).
In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story...
What Happens When People Stop Being Polite
An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about The Real World.
by David Lehman, Edward Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues—guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The Best American Poetry series is “a vivid snapshot...
I, California
The Occasional History of a Child Actress/Tap Dancer/Record Store Clerk/Thai Waitress/Playboy Reject/Nightclub Booker/Daily Show Correspondent/Sex Columnist/Recurring Character/and Whatever Else
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Hilarious. Smart. Bitter. Sweet. Self-deprecating. Stacey Grenrock Woods. Experience with her the stirring joys of receiving a Peter Frampton poster for Hanukkah, sitting for a head-shot photo session as a child actress, waitressing Pan-Asian fusion cuisine, having musicians for boyfriends, humiliating...
Halfway
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys’ homes—the first book to so vividly capture this world.
In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against...
In Search of Bacchus
Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Judgment of Paris and To Cork or Not To Cork comes a delightful, entertaining, and informative exploration of the thriving world of wine tourism.
George M. Taber set out on the wine lover's ultimate dream: a journey to the twelve most...
The Best American Poetry 2011
Series Editor David Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
by David Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Edited this year by beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns.
Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase”...
by James Tate
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1997
Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Best American Poetry is the one indispensable volume for readers eager to follow what's new in poetry today. Sales continue to grow and plaudits keep coming in for this "high-voltage testament to the vitality of American poetry" (Booklist). Selected by prizewinning...
The Graybar Hotel
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
In this “toughly courageous, unflinching, and unapologetic” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, “takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight,...
by David Lehman, Sherman Alexie
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication.
Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for...
Jarhead
A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative.
When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on...
My Soul Looks Back
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” (New York magazine)—in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.
In...