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  • Thomas Wolfe at Washington Square

    by Thomas Clark Pollock, Oscar Cargill ...
    Before Thomas Wolfe became a legend, he was a teacher. Before the towering manuscripts and the breathless literary fame, there was a young man pacing the hallways of New York University at Washington Square, chalk-dusted and burning with ambition, pouring himself into classrooms full of students who had no idea they were sitting across from one of American literature's most volcanic talents. This ... Read more

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  • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

    National Book Award Winner

    by A. Scott Berg ...
    The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but also as critic, career manager, moneylender, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Citizen Reporters

    S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That That Rewrote America

    by Stephanie Gorton ...
    FINALIST FOR THE SPERBER PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM – BIOGRAPHYA fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in AmericaThe president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • How to Suppress Women's Writing

    by Joanna Russ ...
    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

    by Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney ...
    The first-ever collection of 50+ writings from the 20th-century critic who “redefined the possibilities of the literary essay”—including works not seen in print for decades (The New Yorker)Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question.In the essays ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Humorists

    From Hogarth to Noel Coward

    by Paul Johnson ...
    “It is Johnson’s gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would…recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes.” —Washington Post Book World on Heroes“Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough.” —Wall Street JournalPaul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Portable Curmudgeon

    by Jon Winokur ...
    More than 1000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world-class curmudgeons ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collecting Himself

    James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

    Edited by Michael J. Rosen ...
    " Collecting Himself is a charmer. The old Thurber is back among us again—and some of the pieces even reveal a new Thurber. Great fun." —Clifton FadimanJames Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring previously unanthologized articles ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silences

    by Tillie Olsen ...
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries, Olsen shows us ... Read more

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  • Conundrums for the Long Week-End

    England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey

    by Lewis, Robert Kuhn McGregor ...
    Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world. In Conundrums ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Clare

    A Biography

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    "A fascinating insight into a man for whom poetry was, like his life, a mixture of discord and harmony." — Independent on SundayJohn Clare (1793–1864) is the greatest laboring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Masscult and Midcult

    Essays Against the American Grain

    by Dwight Macdonald ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalAn uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD