Biography: A Very Short Introduction
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Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do...
Hollywood Dreaming: Stories, Pictures, and Poems
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In his follow-up to A California Childhood, James Franco reflects on his life in Hollywood and...
I Remember
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Translated into English for the first time, this is Georges Perec's unique, puzzling, and often...
J.M. Coetzee & the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time
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J.M. Coetzee is one of the world's most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the...
The China Sketchbook
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A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to...
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
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Twenty-five years ago, Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son was published, ‘a work of spare beauty and...
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The Discovery of France: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was...
The Gathering
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"Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular...
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Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance: 2017
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers...
Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer
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Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the...