NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Passionate and erudite, but with sharply focused appeal."
Veteran professor Landon (English/Univ. of Iowa;
Understanding Thomas Berger, 2009, etc.) urges a return to the sentence theories and pedagogy of Francis Christensen, whose ideas about cumulative sentences held sway for about a decade 40 years ago.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"An intriguing assortment of work from an athlete with a lot on his mind."
NFL punter Kluwe riffs on everything from social justice to dinosaur obsessions in a lively collection of stories, essays, letters and poems.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A fine return to form for Klosterman, blending Big Ideas with heavy metal, The Wire, Batman and much more."
Of John Rawls and Keith Richards: Klosterman (
The Visible Man, 2011, etc.) returns with a pop-culture–laden meditation on the bad guys of the world and what they mean.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"Will leave readers laughing one moment, bemused the next."
NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A stirring, funny, thought-provoking appreciation of the place, the idea, the experiment, the United States of America."
An ardent mash note to the vast, vital nation that confounds and beguiles its European cousins in equal measure.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 6, 2013
"Generous, intelligent and genuinely insightful."
A self-described "memoir autodidact" and distinguished author's refreshingly idiosyncratic guide to the art of creative nonfiction.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 6, 2013
"An engaging and helpful how-to for hopeful TV writers or anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of this ephemeral art."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 6, 2013
"A readable writer's how-to that goes down smoothly."
A well-organized soup-to-nuts manual for aspiring Nora Ephrons and Charlie Kaufmans, from the faculty of a notable screenwriting program.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 12, 2013
"Illuminates Orwell's political convictions and gives fleeting but vivid glimpses of his personal qualities."
A representative selection, culled from the 20-volume
Complete Works, which Davison co-edited, of correspondence by and to 20th-century England's fiercest literary opponent of totalitarianism.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 13, 2013
"A challenging, rich, aesthetic autobiography and intellectual high-wire act that rarely falters."
Critical and personal essays from noted poet and cultural critic Koestenbaum (English/CUNY Graduate Center;
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, 2012, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 13, 2013
"Fine photos, concise text, including excerpts from remarks of the day, and a solid view of the Kennedy administration dragged into the American future."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 20, 2013
"A fascinating addition to the growing shelf of Springsteen studies, probably best read in doses."
