McSweeney's Quartery Concern Issue 41 by Dave Eggers
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Category: Literary Studies
Each issue of this quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head. McSweeney's has won multiple literary awards, ...Show more
Lost Art: Two Essays on Cultural Dysfunction by Davies Julian and Day Phil
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
The Memoir Book
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Category: Literary Studies
A clear, engaging and practical 'how-to' guide to writing a memoir, by Australia's foremost teacher and practitioner of memoir and life writing, Patti Miller.
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys
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Category: Literary Studies
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousn ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 by Adolfo Aranjuez
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Category: Literary Studies
Now in its fifth edition, Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, Melbourne Books is again expanding the project, increasing the number of featured pieces to over fifty. AWAW ...Show more
Just My Typo: From Sinning with the Choir to the Large Hardon Collider by Drummond Moir
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Category: Literary Studies
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints which, like any typo of any kind, should never have happened, cannot be excused, and must not in any way be glorified. Enjoy. You'll travel back in time to meet ...Show more
Jews and Words by Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
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Category: Literary Studies
Why are words so important to Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism's ...Show more
Natural Acts - Sidelong View of Sci by QUAMMEN David
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Category: Literary Studies
"Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of curiosity leads him ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
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Category: Literary Studies
Alexandra Harris' hugely acclaimed "Romantic Moderns" (winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award) overturned our picture of modernist culture during the interwar years. In her second book, which is newly available in paperback, she brings her attention to one of the towering figures of literary moder ...Show more
Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011 by Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Her ...Show more
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Place to Browse, Read, and Shop by Ronald Rice
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Category: Literary Studies
In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes. In "My Bookstore" our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite b ...Show more