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The Double Life Is Twice as Good: Essays and Fiction

by Jonathan Ames

Wildly original novelist, essayist, and performance artist Jonathan Aames delivers his best collection yet—a hilarious, risqué, and loveable selection of articles, essays, and fiction, including several previously...


What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

by Erica Jong

Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces...


Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

by Bruce Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare

"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."

-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)

The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines...


Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

by Bruce Chatwin

Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics—from...


Saul Bellow: Letters

by Saul Bellow & Benjamin Taylor

"I hungrily read the book through in three nights, as though I'd stumbled upon a lost Bellow masterpiece only recently unearthed."

-Philip Roth

A literary milestone in its own right, this selection of correspondence...


Utilitarianism and Other Essays

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

by Anonymous & A. C. Spearing

In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing...


Selected Writings (Eckhart, Meister)

Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes

by Bill Peschel

Truth is stranger than fiction.

If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, think again. Writers Gone Wild rips back the (book) covers and reveals the seamy underside of the writing life.

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American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings

by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

A groundbreaking collection of sacred Christian writings of American origin from Mormons, Shakers, Christian Scientists, and others.

"Scripture" is any work in which the authors, translators, editors, or discoverers...


Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

by Rob Spillman

A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature

Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality...


The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York

by Jacquelin Cangro

Some seven million people board the New York City subway every day, each one with a story to tell. The Subway Chronicles collects twenty-seven of the tales, dramas and comedies that unfold during the daily commute....


The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England

by Various & Nathaniel Philbrick

The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony?the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick?s New York Times bestseller Mayflower

National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas...


Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

by John Steinbeck

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his...


The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

by Abigail Adams & John Adams

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provide an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; they also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between...


Parrot's Lament, The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligen

by Eugene Linden

A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from...


The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys

by Various

From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers

Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly...


Pragmatism and Other Writings

by William James & Giles Gunn

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging...


Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

by Jack Kerouac

"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice.

Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process...


Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts: Delightful Treats and Games from Classic Children's Books

by Jane Brocket

"We must do something," said Alice....

"Yes, but what shall we do?" said Dicky....

"Let's read all the books again. We shall get lots of ideas out of them."

-The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit

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