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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007

A guide where today’s best writers reveal their secrets. How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work, giving insight into their writing...
by Clive James
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009

A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States. Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to...
by Stephen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006

An evocation of beauty's often-surprising manifestations; even in the face of tragedy. "Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal...
by Nick Laird
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019

**Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize “Nick Laird’s dazzling poems arrive with a kind of revolutionary candor; a truth-telling that’s political, existential, and above all, emotional.… Feel Free is essential poetry.”—Terrance Hayes** Feel Free, the fourth collection...
by Charles Palliser
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013

One of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly “Endlessly fascinating…one of the strongest novels of the year. ” - School Library Journal “Readers will have as much grisly fun just sorting out the facts as they will solving the mysteries.” -The Daily Beast A vertiginous gothic...
by Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010

“Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters.”—Nadine Gordimer Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich’s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present...
by Susan Bell
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008

"Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."—Publishers Weekly The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating...
by James McCourt
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005

"A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."—New York Times Book Review A fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York...
by Brenda Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002

"Peterson writes of nature with an intimacy that tugs at the reader's deep memory."—Orion This is the story of a life and spirit guided by animals. Brenda Peterson was raised in the High Sierras on a national forest lookout station, and wildlife had a daily, defining influence on...
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010

"A wise, humane and beautifully written book." —Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men...
by Victor Brombert, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002

"A beautifully cadenced work of art—it will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."—Joyce Carol Oates Paris in the 1930s—melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized—provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned...
by Lawrence P. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

**Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work A Washington Post Notable Book The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally.** Chester B. Himes has been called “one of the towering...
by Humaira Awais Shahid
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014

An inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women’s rights in Pakistan. In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the “women’s section” of one of Pakistan’s leading Urdu newspapers. She soon transformed pages...

The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

by Gregory Johnsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012

A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States. Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving corner of Arabia. The...
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