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Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects ...
hooks's unflinching dedication to her work carved deep grooves for the feminist and anti-racist movements. In this collection of 7 interviews, stretching from early ...
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The writer who changed America's literary landscape.
One of the great novelists of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway's spare, precise prose captivated critics ...
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay.
Bryce Courtenay was a born storyteller ...
Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces ...
Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a ...
Mysterious, esoteric, and baffling, John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous, even charming, and ever ...
A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, power, and fame ...
'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY
'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN ...
'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'
Financial Times
'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best ...
An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and life
When she was in her mid-thirties ...
An annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her ...
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer
'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph
'Wonderful...candid ...
From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.
The book is an elegant photographic ...