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Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the...
Sugar in My Bowl
Real Women Write About Real Sex
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong—whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls—offers us a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today. “Real Women Write about Real Sex” in Sugar in My Bowl, as...
Don't Know Much About Literature
What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential literary worksand writers
Did a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece?
Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration?
Which French-speaking...
Seeds
One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
"Seeds reads like the best of a roundtable discussion amongst John Muir, Bill Bryson, and David Sedaris. From the fields of Gettysburg to the home of Kerouac, Horan takes an unlikely premise and weaves it into a story that's poignant, insightful and unexpectedly humorous. This is more than a...
Smothered in Hugs
Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” —New York Times Book Review
“His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles...
A Dream Deferred
The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.
Ranging across subjects...
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.”
—Boston Globe
“A writer of gorgeous prose.”
—Washington Post
The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening,...
by Terry Castle
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag
From one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical...
Border-Line Personalities
A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why, in the minds of most Americans, are Latinas still thought of as maids, seductresses, and booty-shaking salsa divas?
Never has the concept of Latina identity been more relevant. Also, never has there been a new generation of Latinas so ready to say what they mean and even criticize the...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not...
by Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer, Robin Gibbs Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence.
The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist—rare...
The Secret Currency of Love
The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Sex & The City meets The Wall Street Journal....Juicy, smart, dramatic and insightful—an addictive read.”
—Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
In The Secret Currency of Love, edited by Hilary Black, acclaimed,...
by Charles Bukowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider"
Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
Insights into...