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White Pine and Blue Water

by Henry Beston

Here is a volume that is true Maine--as eloquent of "downeast" as a bough of fir balsam, as the thunder of a wave of a rocky shore, as the lonely splendor of the northern lights in the sky behind Katahdin. ...


State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love

by Aïda Rogers & Pat Conroy

A collection of heartfelt recollections of place from a pantheon of Palmetto State writers


The Martin Duberman Reader: The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings

by Martin Duberman

For the past fifty years, prize-winning historian Martin Duberman’s groundbreaking writings have established him as one of our preeminent public intellectuals. Founder of the first graduate program in LGBT...


Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems

by Tom Hennen & Jim Harrison

"Tom Hennen's poetry is work of the highest order... I'm reminded again how deeply the earth inhabits us.” —Jim Harrison


Greenhouses, Lighthouses

by Tung-Hui Hu

A poetic and provocative gesture toward cinematography, Tung-Hui Hu presents the ungraspable among memory, film, and history's tantalizing ephemera


Sailing through Cassiopeia

by Dan Gerber

"Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets." —Annie Dillard


Letters to Borges

by Stephen Kuusisto

“[Kuusisto] is a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor.” —New York Times


Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition

by Patricia O'Sullivan, Jervey Tervalon & Michelle Huneven

Short stories, essays and poems from the talented writers who live in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains.


The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic

by Mark Silverberg

In the first monograph to examine all five New York School Poets, Mark Silverberg analyzes the work of John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler in terms of the 'neo-avant-garde.'...


Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

by Maya Higashi Wakana

Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises...


The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

by Jack Kerouac

The first major work by Jack Kerouac—never previously published in its entirety—now with related early writing and correspondence


The Rhetorical Short Story: Best American Short Stories on War and the Military, 1915-2006

by William M. Purcell

This book examines over ninety short stories as rhetorical artifacts of nearly a century of American history, from the early days of the Great War to the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each story...


Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida

by Jeff Klinkenberg

With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba...


Southern Bound: A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart

by John S. Sledge & Walter Edgar

Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than...


Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture

by Linda Seidel

Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV shows, arguing...


In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991

by N. Scott Momaday

A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.


The New Ray Bradbury Review Number 1 2008

by William E. Touponce

An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America's most prolific and popular authors. Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury...


Gold Miners & Guttersnipes: Tales of California

by Mark Twain & Ken Chowder

Mark Twain's legendary insight and wit shine throughout this new selection of his writings, the first to focus on California. As a young man, the celebrated author of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and other...


The Portable Malcolm X Reader

by Manning Marable & Garrett Felber

A new look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning Marable

 

Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has already...


PILLAR of SALT

by Evelyn Allen Johnson

This is a powerful story of an African-American man's struggle to raise his son in a period of overt discrimination and segregation in America. Diversified characters portray the reality of the period, as the...