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Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
by Leonard Marcus  Publisher Comments An animated first-time history of the visionaries--editors, authors, librarians, booksellers, and others--whose passion for books has transformed American childhood and American culture What should children read? As the preeminent children's literature...
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Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
by Guy Reynolds Publisher Comments Following World War II, Americans entertained a far more international political, cultural, and intellectual awareness as well as a greater fascination with development, progress, and modernity than ever before. In a revisionist account that takes...
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American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
by Robert M Crunden Publisher Comments In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism...
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
by Amanda Vaill Publisher Comments Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was...
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Them: A Memoir of Parents
by Francine du Plessix Gray Publisher Comments The much-acclaimed biographer's unflinchingly honest, wise, and forgiving portrait of her own famous parents: two wildly talented Russian migrs who fled wartime Paris to become one of New York's first and grandest power couples. Tatiana du Plessix, the...
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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
by Joyce Johnson 
Publisher Comments A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one womans coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation...
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard Publisher Comments Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he'd kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920...
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Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s (Library of America #176)
by Edmund Wilson Publisher Comments Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this...
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
by David Laskin Publisher Comments Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the legendary group of New York intellectuals who were the Partisan Review writers. It is the women who steal...
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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s with CD (Audio)
by Daniel Kane Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index....
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The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation
by Mike Evans Publisher Comments This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the defining book of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac wrote his masterpiece in one frenzied three-week period in 1951 on the infamous 119-foot scroll, which has been “on the...
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A Lifetime Burning Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin
by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments Alfred Kazin, one of our most distinguished critics culls half a century from his journals. Russell Baker describes Kazin's work best: "A lovely book about 20th-century life lived gracefully on the New York literary battleground, and about the universal...
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
by David Laskin Publisher Comments From the Depression era of the 1930s through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, a generation of "public intellectuals" thrived in America. They were poets, novelists, critics, and commentators who were also friends, rivals, spouses, and lovers. Their...
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Fading Smile: Poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955-1960
by Peter Davison Synopsis This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped...
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The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
by Wendy Lesser Publisher Comments In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self-described "eighteenth-century man of letters". Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest...
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Contributions in American Studies #33: New World Journeys: Contemporary Italian Writers and the Experience of America
by Angela M. Jeannet Review It is always fascinating to read what Europeans think of us, and this highly perceptive collection of short, sharp, candid Italian reactions--primarily from the 1930s, 1950s, and early 1960s--indicates that America's mythic and cultural impact is still...
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Women Singing in the Snow : a Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature (95 Edition)
by Tey Diana Rebolledo Synopsis This first book-length analysis of the Chicana literary tradition is a substantial contribution to American feminist literature and a fitting companion to the author's popular anthology Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (Rebolledo...
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The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States
by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald - and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he...
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Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters
by Edmund Wilson Book News Annotation Aficionados of the American literary critic Wilson may find many of these letters disenchantingly trivial, dealing with baby's new tooth, or begging funds for his son. There are many letters that make some reference to Wilson's work, however...
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Once: As It Was
by Griseld Ohannessian Publisher Comments An unconventional family idyll set on a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s, Once: As It Was is a vibrant pastoral memoir that mixes unsentimentality with childhood innocence in a moving story that builds to a spine-tingling confrontation. "Of...
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