Category: Author Grouping

We Should All Be Feminists

By: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Price: $5.37

Publisher: Anchor : January 2015

Seller ID: 166731

ISBN-13: 9781101911761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now--and an of-the-moment rallying cry for w...
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The Friday Book (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

By: Barth, Professor John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press : January 1997

Seller ID: 179023

ISBN-13: 9780801855573

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Whether discussing modernism, postmodernism, semiotics, Homer, Cervantes, Borges, blue crabs or osprey nests, Barth demonstrates an enthusiasm for the life of the mind, a joy in thinking (and in expressing those thoughts) that becomes contagious... A reader leaves The Friday Book feeling intellectually fuller, verbally more adept, mentally stimulated, with algebra and fire of his own."--Washington PostBarth's first work of nonfiction is what he calls "an arrangement of essays and occasional lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over thi...
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Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

By: Conroy, Cassandra King

Price: $17.99

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : November 2020

Seller ID: 177506

ISBN-13: 9780062943408

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read." -- Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature.Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced "Sunday wife" of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately...
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

By: Conroy, Pat

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese : October 2013

Seller ID: 72596

ISBN-13: 9780385530903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A painful, lyrical, addictive read" (People) by the cherished author of The Great Santini that brings his extraordinary career full circle Pat Conroy's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the often cruel and violent behavior of his father, Marine Corps fighter pilot Donald Patrick Conroy. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused ...
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The Great Santini: A Novel

By: Conroy, Pat

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback : October 2002

Seller ID: 165432

ISBN-13: 9780553381559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The piercing, iconic semi-autobiographical novel of a domineering father and ambitious son, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine--fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife--beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn't give in--not to his men, not...
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Water is Wide, The

By: Conroy, Pat

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback : March 2002

Seller ID: 177637

ISBN-13: 9780553381573

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A "miraculous" (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence unless, somehow, they can learn a new way. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher--until one man gives a...
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Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne

By: Dunne, John Gregory

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press : December 2005

Seller ID: 4609

ISBN-13: 9781560258162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

No writer captured the tragic absurdity of late-twentieth-century America better than John Gregory Dunne. For over forty years, he cast an unsparing eye on contemporary America, never flinching from the unpleasant truths he saw around him. Whether novels, screenplays, or nonfiction, his work was marked with a droll wit and a pointed cynicism that often examined buried aspects of public and private life in Hollywood and America at large. Regards is a celebration of Dunne's best nonfiction, from frank observations on the film industry, politics, sports, and popular culture to tender reflections ...
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The Fatal Englishman

By: Faulks, Sebastian

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House UK : May 1996

Seller ID: 193292

ISBN-13: 9780091792114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New Stories from the South 2004: The Year's Best

By: Flythe, Starkey

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Algonquin Books : January 2004

Seller ID: 65580

ISBN-13: 9781565124325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As it approaches its twentieth year, Shannon Ravenel's anthology has taken on a kind of cult status among readers, writers, teachers of short fiction, and trend watchers. It was here that some of the most well-respected voices of the last two decades were first recognized, here that writers tell us they were discovered by agents, here that they landed their first book deals. And for readers looking for fresh, exciting short fiction, here is where they'll find it. Ravenel has once again put together a stellar lineup of stories that makes this anthology not just a mark of distinction for writers...
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The Chattahoochee Review: Winter/Spring 2003 - Volume 23, #2/3

By: Flythe, Starkey Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Georgia Perimeter College : January 2003

Seller ID: 65582

ISBN: B000J4Y7AQ

Binding: Mass

Condition: Used - Good

Farther Away

By: Franzen, Jonathan

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux : January 2012

Seller ID: 145454

ISBN-13: 9781620907290

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Make Good Art

By: Gaiman, Neil

Price: $16.99

Publisher: William Morrow : May 2013

Seller ID: 147607

ISBN-13: 9780062266767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.

The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman's inspiring speech.

Black Music (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)

By: Jones (Amiri Baraka), LeRoi

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Akashic Books : January 2010

Seller ID: 138583

ISBN-13: 9781933354934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People."Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music."--WBGO (Newark Public Radio)"Jones has learned--and this has been very rare in jazz criticism--to write about music as an artist."--Nat HentoffBlack Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is compo...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille, L., Steven Hopp

Price: $13.48

Publisher: HarperCollins : May 2007

Seller ID: 190042

ISBN-13: 9780060852559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . .Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kin...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

By: Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille, L., Steven Hopp

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : May 2008

Seller ID: 155868

ISBN-13: 9780060852566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life--vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

By: Lamott, Anne

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Ballantine Books : May 1994

Seller ID: 192366

ISBN-13: 9780449909287

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

By: Morrison, Toni

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press : September 2017

Seller ID: 129493

ISBN-13: 9780674976450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin of Others. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially litera...
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

By: Murakami, Haruki

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Knopf : November 2021

Seller ID: 169212

ISBN-13: 9780593320426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered the world's most popular cult novelist (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000 vinyl record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt collecting habit. In Murakami T, the famously reclusive noveli...
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Novelist as a Vocation

By: Murakami, Haruki

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Knopf : November 2022

Seller ID: 187531

ISBN-13: 9780451494641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps

By: Salter, James,Phelps, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : July 2010

Seller ID: 192123

ISBN-13: 9781582436050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

" A] well-edited collection . . . More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates." --Publishers Weekly It was James Salter's third novel, A Sport and a Pastime--together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer--that in 1969 prompted Robert Phelps to write a letter of admiration. Though the two writers didn't know each other, their correspondence went on to span decades. The letters themselves are exceptionally alive, uninhibited, gossipy, touching, and brilliant. The successes of Salter and the struggles of Phelps are fully explore...
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Category: Author Grouping