by Michael Chabon  
Publisher Comments Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies 
by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss and the staff of McSweeney's Publisher Comments This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Book W/audio Cd) check for new and sale copies
by Peter Davis
Powells.com Staff Pick In the editor's preface, Peter Davis writes: When I was studying for my MFA I was required to read 25 books, of my choosing, per semester. Once, I asked one of my professors to give me some suggestions and she gave me a list of 30 or so writers... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Laura Miller Publisher Comments Since it began in 1995, Salon.com has been showered with awards and praise. Now, its 150,000 devoted readers can devour The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors – an all-original, A-to-Z guide to 225 of the most fascinating writers of our... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Bill D Moyers Publisher Comments <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft</H3><H4 ALIGN=CENTER>Coleman Barks<BR>Lorna Dee Cervantes<BR>Mark Doty<BR>Deborah Garrison<BR>Jane Hirshfield<BR>Stanley Kunitz <BR>Kurtis... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Arnold Weinstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-404) and index.... (read more) Your Price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Ira Glass Publisher Comments A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Thomas C. Foster Publisher Comments What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser Publisher Comments Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he... (read more) Your Price $12.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by David James Duncan
Publisher Comments Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It as our era’s most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Ayn Rand Synopsis In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Mortimer J Adler Publisher Comments How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments Chapter One Fiction in Bits Many contemporaries write a fiction intended to achieve traditional kinds of excellence. Many others write a fiction which is more abstracted--the kind of fiction Borges wrote in "Ficciones," or Nabokov wrote in "Pale Fire... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $1.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece... (read more) Your Price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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