NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"A meaty selection from Gates' large-bodied work."
Omnibus of writings on race discourse and genealogy over three decades by the eminent Harvard professor.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"A good anthology for an afternoon's reading in the park."
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"An unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays from the formidable mind of Franzen, written with passion and haunted by loss."
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
""We need to expand the prevailing definition of patriotism beyond that narrow nationalism that has caused so much death and suffering," writes Zinn. For sympathetic readers, this makes an ideal primer for that cause."
NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"A catharsis for the writer and perhaps for the reader as well."
Nearly two decades after the death of Kurt Cobain, a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn his suicide, but also rages against the culture that he holds responsible.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Passionately and thoroughly entertaining."
What makes a bestselling novel? Longtime teacher and prolific thriller writer Hall (
Dead Last, 2011, etc.) explores how certain books strike literary paydirt.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Stellar cultural writing--Bissell has the knowledge and wit to earn his provocations."
A whip-smart, occasionally pugnacious collection of essays on culture from a wide-ranging critic.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 20, 2012
"It's remarkable that essays written more than a half-century ago, on another continent, should seem not merely pertinent but prescient in regard to the course of contemporary American culture."
NONFICTION
Released: March 19, 2012
"Glistening evidence that a great critic needs both a bookworm's habits and a capacious heart."
A selection of reviews and essays from the celebrated literary critic, followed by a sort of
festschrift with contributors ranging from family members to noted authors (Toni Morrison, Mary Gordon and others).
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NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2012
"A quirky, variegated salute to what Aldous Huxley called "a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.""
Should essays be light and playful, hard and serious, or both? Some 50 experts on the form, ranging across 400 years, tackle the question in this odd volume, edited by Klaus, founding director of University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program (
The Made Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay, 2010, etc.), and Stuckey-French (English/Florida State Univ.;
The American Essay in the American Century, 2011).
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"Rich and flavorful--best ingested in small amounts so the savory pleasures linger."
The 2010 winner of the Man Booker Prize serves up selections from his columns at the
Independent.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"Savory appetizers that will cause curious readers to order the full 12-course meal."
From the massive 12-volume
The Letters of Charles Dickens, editor Hartley (English Literature/Roehampton Univ.;
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women, 2008, etc.) selects letters that illuminate the dimensions of Dickens' mind, the range of his interests and the scale of his moods and passions.
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