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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
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...
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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...
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Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics
by Johanna Drucker Synopsis Johanna Drucker is among the foremost authorities on the history of alphabets, writing, artists' books, and visual poetry. This book is a compendium of Drucker's thought -- yet rather than anthologize from her numerous published books, Figuring the Word...
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How to Read a Book
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...
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Reading Like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want To Write Them (06 Edition)
by Francine Prose 
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love...
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The New Kings of Nonfiction
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...
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
by Lewis Hyde Publisher Comments By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book...
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Maps and Legends
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...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher Comments In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who...
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen Publisher Comments Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical...
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Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
by Richard Hugo Publisher Comments Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American lettersùa distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that...
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Boys of My Youth (98 Edition)
by Jo Ann Beard
Publisher Comments Jo Ann Beard grew up amid a tightly knit clan of mothers, aunts, sisters, and girlfriends. Her steadfast family and its culture of women somehow made the prospect of dangerous neighborhood boys, friendly barflies, and potential romance all the more...
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Hellenic Studies #16: The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
by Laura Slatkin Publisher Comments Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in theIliad. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and...
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Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
by Tony Hoagland Publisher Comments The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness...
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments In this book, Baxter offers several sharp, articulate, and provocative essays that examine the many forces currently shaping contemporary American fiction. As noted in The Washington Times: "What elevates this collection from the status of technical...
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Work
by Susan Cheever Publisher Comments Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the...
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
by Anne Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and lyrical prose, Eros the...
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Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles (06 Edition)
by Hesiod Publisher Comments These three classics of Greek literature — often called extended poems — helped bridge the oral and written traditions of Greek civilization. Like his contemporary, Homer, Hesiod artfully recounts the struggles and triumphs of the gods and...
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Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the...
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Very Short Introductions #4: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
by Jonathan Culler Publisher Comments What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path...
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