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  • Tristeza de la Verdad: André Gide Regresa de Rusia by Sánchez, Alberto Ruy
    Alberto Ruy Sánchez

    Tristeza de la Verdad: André Gide Regresa de Rusia

    Historia de una ilusión compartida y una gran desilusión que no fue tolerada. El viaje de André Gide a Rusia en los años treinta es un recorrido por la accidentada geografía de la intolerancia: más allá de la URSS, por las patrias presentes y...
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  • The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

    A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's lifeIn her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become...
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  • Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England by Strachey, Nino
    Nino Strachey

    Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England

    A moving and soul-stirring exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group that inspired and rejuvenated their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s Britain.In the years before...
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  • Good Poems Lib/E: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor by Keillor, Garrison
    Garrison Keillor

    Good Poems Lib/E: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor

    Author: Garrison KeillorISBN-10: 1665170638ISBN-13: 9781665170635Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2002Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs
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  • Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Evenson, Brian
    Brian Evenson

    Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

    A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one's way through the dark, Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the...
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  • How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice by Foster, Thomas C.
    Thomas C. Foster

    How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

    The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons...
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  • How to Tell a Joke Lib/E: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Ciccero, Marcus Tullis
    Marcus Tullis Ciccero

    How to Tell a Joke Lib/E: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor

    Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity's funniest...
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  • Breaking the Da Vinci Code Lib/E: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking by Bock Phd, Darrell L.
    Darrell L. Bock Phd

    Breaking the Da Vinci Code Lib/E: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking

    Was Jesus married? Who was Mary Magdalene? Do the so-called secret, Gnostic gospels help us understand Jesus? Dr. Darrell Bock, New Testament scholar, offers the Christian perspective on the theories regarding the Holy Grail, Mary Magdalene, and the blood of Christ proliferated in the...
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  • The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity's Total Failure by Javerbaum, David
    David Javerbaum

    The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity's Total Failure

    Just in time for the Apocalypse comes a new Biblical scripture from God and thirteen-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum.3,000 years ago, King David wrote The Book of Psalms--hymns in praise of God that became famous worldwide. Now, with humanity on the verge...
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  • A Preface to Paradise Lost by Lewis, C. S.
    C. S. Lewis

    A Preface to Paradise Lost

    C. S. Lewis's illuminating reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own.In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apologist and revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes...
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  • Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

    Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take...
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  • How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between by Foster, Thomas C.
    Thomas C. Foster

    How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between

    The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an...
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  • The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

    The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

    "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time"It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the...
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  • Sensuous Knowledge Lib/E: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Miles, Robin
    Robin Miles

    Sensuous Knowledge Lib/E: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

    The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power.Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that...
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  • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Sharpe, Christina
    Christina Sharpe

    In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

    In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the orthography of the wake. Activating multiple registers of wake - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
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  • Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by Reynolds, David S.
    David S. Reynolds

    Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

    The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive,...
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  • The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror by Beahm, George
    George Beahm

    The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror

    A detailed companion to the work of Stephen King, using original articles, interviews, and biographical material to show how he became America's favorite storyteller. The Stephen King Companion provides a look inside Stephen King's world. The book is a detailed look not only at...
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  • Thomas Merton on James Joyce by
    WR Book House

    Thomas Merton on James Joyce

    ISBN-10: 1666548723ISBN-13: 9781666548723Publisher: Learn25Language: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2022Format: CDWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 5.43h x 6.46w x 1.10d
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  • The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 Volume 1 by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 Volume 1

    William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has...
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  • Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Nafisi, Azar
    Azar Nafisi

    Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

    The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...
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  • The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Neiderman, Andrew
    Andrew Neiderman

    The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story

    This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews.Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic,...
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  • Essays One by Metzger, Janet
    Janet Metzger

    Essays One

    A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self-consciousness, while Rick Moody hails her as the...
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  • On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I by Napier, Merphy
    Timothy Hickson

    On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I

    Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to...
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  • The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Baxter, Jason M.
    Jason M. Baxter

    The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

    C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere...
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  • The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Tatar, Maria
    Maria Tatar

    The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined...
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  • Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

    Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take...
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  • Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by McDowell, Marta
    Marta McDowell

    Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

    McDowell's gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world's most famous authors.--Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished...
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  • The Fire Next Time by Baldwin, James
    James Baldwin

    The Fire Next Time

    At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with...
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  • To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Laing, Olivia
    Olivia Laing

    To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

    Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through...
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  • World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England by Lears, Adin E.
    Adin E. Lears

    World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England

    Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted...
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  • Cruel Optimism by Berlant, Lauren
    Lauren Berlant

    Cruel Optimism

    A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar...
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  • Unearthing the Secret Garden Lib/E: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by McDowell, Marta
    Marta McDowell

    Unearthing the Secret Garden Lib/E: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

    McDowell's gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world's most famous authors.--Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished...
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  • Langston Hughes: The Value of Contradiction by Greer, Bonnie
    Bonnie Greer

    Langston Hughes: The Value of Contradiction

    Langston Hughes was a man far ahead of his time, but his actions were often unpredictable, contradictory and refused classification. To give an example, he campaigned tirelessly for civil rights but then testified before the controversial House Committee on Un-American Activities, seen by many...
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  • Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bryson, Bill
    Bill Bryson

    Shakespeare: The World as Stage

    Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout,...
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  • Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Schalk, Sami
    Sami Schalk

    Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction

    In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging Black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that...
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  • One Writer's Beginnings by Welty, Eudora
    Eudora Welty

    One Writer's Beginnings

    Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write...
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  • Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Jones, Simon
    Simon Jones

    Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Now in audiobook for the first time ever Read by Neil Gaiman and Simon Jones, the original "Arthur Dent," and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don't Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker.First published in 1986 and...
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  • How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Schur, Michael
    Michael Schur

    How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

    From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. Read by the author, this one-of-a-kind audio production features guest...
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  • Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales by Gouge, Earnest
    Earnest Gouge

    Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales

    Totkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in Creel and English--the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe. In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged by ethnographer John Reed...
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  • Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Shay, Jonathan
    Jonathan Shay

    Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

    In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with...
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  • Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Nafisi, Azar
    Azar Nafisi

    Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

    The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...
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  • Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Lear, Linda
    Linda Lear

    Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

    In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination...
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  • Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction by Nelson, Brian
    Brian Nelson

    ﾉmile Zola: A Very Short Introduction

    ﾉmile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as naturalism and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...
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  • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Gottschall, Jonathan
    Jonathan Gottschall

    The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

    Author: Jonathan GottschallISBN-10: 8200073610ISBN-13: 9798200073610Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d
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  • How Dante Can Save Your Life Lib/E: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem by Dreher, Rod
    Rod Dreher

    How Dante Can Save Your Life Lib/E: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

    Author: Rod DreherISBN-13: 9798200006663Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.50w x 1.30d
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  • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Martin, Eric
    Eric Martin

    The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

    Author: Eric Martin, Thomas LigottiISBN-10: 1665113197ISBN-13: 9781665113199Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d
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  • Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Duggan, Lisa
    Lisa Duggan

    Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

    Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the 21st century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those...
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  • Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology by Albert, LIV
    LIV Albert

    Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology

    Finally sort out who's who in Greek mythology--from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between Greek mythology continues to appear in popular movies and books today but have you ever wondered about where these characters started out? Discover the origins of your favorite...
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  • On Writers and Writing by Atwood, Margaret
    Margaret Atwood

    On Writers and Writing

    What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain...
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  • Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Fletcher, Angus
    Angus Fletcher

    Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

    A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs--rivaling any scientific inventions--and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we...
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