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Alphabet Soup
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CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459750333
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A tasty yet experimental recipe of creative memoir in poetic prose cooked up for your consumption — one letter at a time.Alphabet Soup, A. Gregory Frankson’s first full-length foray into the world...
Günter Grass: Six Decades
A Report from the Artist's Studio
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CA$87.00
ISBN: 9783869309682
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Six Decades grants us a privileged look behind the normally closed door of Nobel Laureate Günter Grass' (1927–2015) studio. For well over half a century Grass worked unceasingly as a writer, sculptor...
Life of William Collins, Poet
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781638041368
Pub Date: November 2024
William Collins?s poetry was highly regarded by his contemporaries and by eighteenth-century literary scholars since, but what has been missing is an in-depth biographical study. Through impressive archival discoveries, Mary Margaret Stewart refutes the received portrait of Collins as an impoverished genius and presents new information about his family?s finances and wealth, which sustained him throughout his life.
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496853950
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America
The Making of Sylvia Plath
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496846679
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A unique analysis of the media, literature, and pop culture that shaped Sylvia Plath?s literary achievement
Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world's greatest vagabond
Volume I: A Dangerous Life
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771839228
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world’s greatest vagabond features seven Cendrars works: The Sewerman of London: a tale of a...
Nancy Cunard
Perfect Stranger
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781835538746
Pub Date: October 2024
In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and ?sexually dangerous New Woman,? offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.
Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943
Last Train from Jerusalem
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CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781835537138
Pub Date: October 2024
Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala...
Pandemonium Logs
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2020-2022
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781978835276
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.
Baldwin, Styron, and Me
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966269
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship. In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s...
An Apprehension of Splendor
A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family
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CA$61.95
ISBN: 9780817321796
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
A unique collection of Fitzgerald family photographs, many never before published, hand selected by a curator of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
Pamela Colman Smith
Artist, Feminist, and Mystic
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781835538708
Pub Date: September 2024
Pamela Colman Smith?s illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions worldwide, but her work took her from art galleries in New York and Europe to salons with luminaries of the English...
Morbidities and "The Concept of the New Literature"
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781638040569
Pub Date: September 2024
Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963) was one of Spain?s most gifted avant-gardists. Oftentimes remembered as the inventor of the greguería?a type of witty and humorous epigram that recasts the commonplace...
On a Silver Desert
The Life of Ernest Haycox
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194851
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Ernest Haycox Jr. describes his father's life, work, and views on the craft of writing. In a remarkably candid biography, original photographs of Hollywood stars and excerpts from Haycox's correspondence, including letters from the last years of his life, round out this incisive look at a literary giant.
Because Somebody Asked Me To
Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781771872584
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Thistledown Press
Canadian literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe's eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces spans his forty-year writing career.
Larry Brown
A Writer's Life
Price:
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781496853189
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
The first biography of Mississippi's beloved blue-collar writer who redefined southern fiction
Alphabet Soup
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459750333
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Günter Grass: Six Decades
A Report from the Artist's Studio
CA$87.00
ISBN: 9783869309682
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Life of William Collins, Poet
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781638041368
Pub Date: November 2024
William Collins?s poetry was highly regarded by his contemporaries and by eighteenth-century literary scholars since, but what has been missing is an in-depth biographical study. Through impressive archival discoveries, Mary Margaret Stewart refutes the received portrait of Collins as an impoverished genius and presents new information about his family?s finances and wealth, which sustained him throughout his life.
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496853950
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
The Making of Sylvia Plath
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496846679
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world's greatest vagabond
Volume I: A Dangerous Life
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771839228
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Nancy Cunard
Perfect Stranger
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781835538746
Pub Date: October 2024
In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and ?sexually dangerous New Woman,? offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.
Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943
Last Train from Jerusalem
CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781835537138
Pub Date: October 2024
Pandemonium Logs
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2020-2022
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781978835276
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.
Baldwin, Styron, and Me
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966269
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Biblioasis
An Apprehension of Splendor
A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family
CA$61.95
ISBN: 9780817321796
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
A unique collection of Fitzgerald family photographs, many never before published, hand selected by a curator of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
Pamela Colman Smith
Artist, Feminist, and Mystic
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781835538708
Pub Date: September 2024
Morbidities and "The Concept of the New Literature"
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781638040569
Pub Date: September 2024
On a Silver Desert
The Life of Ernest Haycox
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194851
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Because Somebody Asked Me To
Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781771872584
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Thistledown Press
Larry Brown
A Writer's Life
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781496853189
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi