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 Atlas Shrugged (In two parts)Best Price: $38.97 Book should be a must for anyone who intends to create - and those who dont too! Atlas Shrugged... |  The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern FictionBest Price: $12.04 I loved this anthology for the stories it holds and the interviews between them. I am so envious... |  Thirteen Ways of Looking at the NovelBest Price: $3.95 So many books. So little time. Jane Smiley's "Thirteen ways of Looking at the... |  The Dry DivideBest Price: $6.74 When Ralph Moody, 20 years old, is put off the train at McCook, Nebraska, on July 4, 1919, he... |  Truth & Beauty: A FriendshipBest Price: $3.48 wonderfully written. if you put a gun to my head and ask who was a better writer, patchett or... |
 Possible Side EffectsBest Price: $2.38 Augusten Burroughs has a way of making mundane events laughable. Possible Side Effects has no... |  Making Contact: Readings from Home and AbroadBest Price: $36.45 This book is good for college freshman to study English. Articles are devided by each topic, so... | Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel Best Price: $3.95 So many books. So little time. Jane Smiley's "Thirteen ways of Looking at the... |  Running with Scissors: A MemoirBest Price: $3.25 The reviews on the cover of this book were wildly misleading; I found no pleasure or humor in... |  Shaking the Nickel BushBest Price: $7.54 I had trouble putting the book down! It painted a great picture of what life was like in... |
 Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas DroverBest Price: $7.50 Ralph Moody's books are a national treasure demonstrating life at the end of an era while... |  The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And WorkBest Price: $6.50 I agree that one can find writing inspiration in these pages. Studying the mechanics and... |  Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village MemoirBest Price: $5.94 This is one of the best memoirs I've read. Broyard is brilliant, an elegant writer, and his... |  February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in BrooklynBest Price: $0.69 For me this was an amazing discovery. I read a review of it in a literary magazine in the... |  The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal WhiteleyBest Price: $6.95 An incredibly beautiful journal written by a young child prodigy. It is lyrical and delightful.... |
 Finding Freedom: Writings from Death RowBest Price: $10.16 Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely sources and in this case from a death row... |  The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and PoemsBest Price: $6.00 The first college anthology of American literature about the Vietnam War brings together 16... |  The Outlaw Bible of American LiteratureBest Price: $15.34 This is a great book of coupons. It's not a great book of products though. I was looking for a... |  Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Critical American Studies Series)Best Price: $17.55 In this brilliant book, Rod Ferguson interrogates canonical sociologys' regulation of sexual... |  Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and LiteratureBest Price: $18.77 The author not only argues for feminism, but she does so in a unique manner, and innovative... |
 Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: Realism to the Present (Anthology American Literature)Best Price: $27.00 American Literature: Vol. 2 / 0-13-083815-2 My long-standing impression formed in childhood... |  Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in AmericaBest Price: $2.00 In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman... |  Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good TimesBest Price: $1.70 Drinking, Smoking and Screwing es la entrada a los excesos. Los excesos visto desde la... |  Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural PoliticsBest Price: $17.99 Anyone with an interest in Asian American history, politics, and culture needs to read this... |  Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A MemoirBest Price: $12.13 It gives me no pleasure to report how disappointed I was in Sidney Offit's latest book,... |
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 The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature)Best Price: $19.08 Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the... |  Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created HerBest Price: $2.17 For the feminist historian looking for a book length essay on Nancy Drew's influence on Betty... |  Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science FictionBest Price: $11.00 Fans of the science fiction genre (whether in film, comic book, or novel form) will enjoy these... |  The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)Best Price: $21.00 Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions,... |  How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted BoyhoodBest Price: $3.36 You don't have to be a New Yorker to enjoy this book. The author provides a humorous and honest... |
 The Writer's DeskBest Price: $24.95 I don't know why I love this book so much, maybe it's those moments of just seeing others spaces... | The Writer's Desk Best Price: $24.95 I don't know why I love this book so much, maybe it's those moments of just seeing others spaces... |  American Humor: A Study of the National Character (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $5.16 Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character,... |  The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal CassadyBest Price: $8.17 Neil Cassady acted on the periphery of the Beat movement for much of his adult life and thus... |  No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing WritersBest Price: $18.18 |
 Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of GothicBest Price: $17.00 I asked myself why this fine book generated so many negative reviews on Amazon, and I have... |  Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on FilmBest Price: $29.11 Jerome F. Shapiro, an Associate Professor of Cinema and Comparative Culture at Hiroshima... |  The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of EspionageBest Price: $3.93 The beauty of Hitz's book is that he brings to it the experience that comes from a lifelong... |  There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell BerryBest Price: $7.82 Afterword by Andrew Delbanco Despite the crucial importance of religion in American life, the... |  A Whole Other Ball Game: Women's Literature on Women's SportBest Price: $3.95 I recently selected this book for use in a new course I am teaching on sportswriting at the... |
 L.A. Exile: A Guide To Los Angeles Writing 1932-1998Best Price: $4.42 Fiction. Poetry. There are cities writers have sought as inspiration; Paris in the '20s, or New... | ||||
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