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  • Ploughshares Fall 2012 Guest-Edited by Patricia Hampl

    by Patricia Hampl, Philip Lopate, Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Ploughshares
    The Fall 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Patricia Hampl. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.Award-winning memoirist and author Patricia Hampl (The Florist's Daughter, I Could Tell You Stories) compiles this all-essay issue of Ploughshares. Showcasing the ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • South Street

    by Barbara Mensch ...
    South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    by David Rakoff ...
    A frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine, Outside, Salon, and GQ, and a regular on Public Radio International's "This American Life,"David Rakoff's debut collection of essays is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and take-your-breath-away poignant.David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether he finds himself on assignment climbing Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire — donning a pair of ... Read more

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  • This I Believe

    The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

    Edited by Jay Allison, Dan Gediman ...
    Series Book 1 - This I Believe
    The New York Times Bestseller"A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors."—The Philadelphia Inquirera stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs—and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them—reveal the American spirit at its best.Based on the NPR series of the same name, ... Read more

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  • A Contract with God

    by Will Eisner ...
    The first graphic novel—a mesmerizing fictional chronicle of a universal American experience.Through a quartet of four interwoven stories, A Contract With God express the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx. This is the legendary book that launched a new art form and reaffirmed Will Eisner as one of the great pioneers of American graphics. ... Read more

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  • How To Write An Autobiographical Novel

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    by Alexander Chee ...
    Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores how we form identities in life and in art.**As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With ... Read more

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  • The Baby Boom

    How It Got That Way, And It Wasn't My Fault, And I'll Never Do It Again

    by P. J. O'Rourke ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author looks at the sixties generation, and how he and his seventy-five million accomplices made America what it is today.A onetime editor-in-chief of National Lampoon who also spent years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly, P. J. O'Rourke is known as a conservative-minded political humorist and author of such bestsellers as Parliament of Whores. ... Read more

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  • Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

    by Alan Alda ...
    An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?)Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searching for a way to ... Read more

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  • Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

    by Marlon Brando ...
    This is Marlon Brando’s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words:“I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent. . . . ... Read more

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  • The Heart Does Break

    Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning

    by Jean Baird, George Bowering ...
    A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own…A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada’s best known writers.When Jean Baird’s daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean’s deep instinct was to turn to books to help her in her time of sudden loss. Although she found that the thoughts ... Read more

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  • Fierce Pajamas

    An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S. Kaufman, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Peter De Vries ... Read more

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  • Mental Floss: Scatterbrained

    by Editors of Mental Floss ...
    The bathroom read to end all bathroom reads!What does Greece (the country) have to do with Grease (the movie)? And what does Grease (the movie) have to do with greasy food? Plenty, if you ask the folks at mental_floss.Based on the magazine's "Scatterbrained" section, the mental_floss gang has taken on the Mount Everest of trivia challenges: connecting the entire world through the juiciest facts ... Read more

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