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  • Taylor Swift by the Book

    The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Sappho to Sylvia Plath

    **From the childhood nostalgia of Peter Pan in Speak Now to the haunted halls of Rebecca in evermore, Taylor Swift's lyrics are filled with literary connections.Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced her songwriting.**Let a literature professor and a musical theater artist guide you through the Taylor Swift canon—from Shakespeare ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Selected Amazon Reviews

    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor 3E

    A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from Don Quixote to The Hate You Give

    Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

    The Official Guide to All the Books

    by Erika Berlin ...
    Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series.For fans of Gilmore Girls, one of the most dedicated ways to tap into the psyche of Rory Gilmore is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Dangerous Fictions

    The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

    by Lyta Gold ...
    In a cultural moment when panics over the stories we tell are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions shows us exactly what we're fighting about and whyFictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. These days, everybody frets about fiction: according to the National Coalition Against Censorship, the current wave of book bans ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Revisionaries

    What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

    Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars.If you like to write—whether it’s a pastime, a passion, or a profession—you’ve probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, “I could never do this! I might as well give up.” But if there’s one thing every great author has in common, it’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The World in Books

    52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction

    Series series Great Short Books
    A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion—chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History.From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life

    by Molly masters ...
    A beautiful, thoughtful, illustrated guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life’s throwing at you…Through turbulent times, stories keep us afloat. Books, particularly, console and guide us, feed our souls and open our eyes to worlds, possibilities and experiences we have never considered before. Many of us have been self-medicating with books for years without identifying the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Opacities

    On Writing and the Writing Life

    by Sofia Samatar ...
    Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writingIn a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to study ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Difficult Lives Hitching Rides

    by James Sallis ...
    James Sallis's (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and introductory writings on noir fiction.At the time of its original publication by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was a pioneering work of literary investigation. Sallis's subjects of Himes, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • American Contact

    Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History

    Series series Material Texts
    A Hawai’ian quilt stitched with anti-imperial messages; a Jesuit report that captures the last words of a Wendat leader; an invitation to a ball, repurposed by enslaved people in colonial Antigua; a book of poetry printed in a Peruvian penitentiary. Countless material texts—legible artifacts—resulted from the diverse intercultural encounters that characterize the history of the Americas.American ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Genius of Judy

    How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

    An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to Blubber.Everyone knows Judy Blume.Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn to them? And why are we still talking about them now ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Long Run

    A Creative Inquiry

    The author of The Art of Intimacy asks eight legendary artists: What has sustained you in the long run?How do we keep doing this—making art? Stacey D’Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself this question. She was past the rush of her first books and wondering what to expect—how to stay alive in her vocation—in the decades ahead.She began to ... Read more

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  • Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness

    A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond.Drawing on a range ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Word Made Fresh

    An Invitation to Poetry for the Church

    Have you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem?Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusing, or simply “not for us.” In these joyful and wise reflections, Abram Van Engen shows readers how poetry is for everyone—and how it can reinvigorate our Christian faith.Intertwining close readings with ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Uptown Local

    Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

    A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction—and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the ... Read more

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  • Any Person Is the Only Self

    Essays

    by Elisa Gabbert ...
    Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love?In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Bookishly Ever After

    by Mia Page ...
    Two rival bookstore owners. One chance for a happily ever after…Bookshop owner Lexi Austen’s problems are stacking up. Her dating life is a mess and Sam Dickens – devastatingly handsome, arrogant, and fiercely competitive rival bookshop owner – is hellbent on stealing all of her customers.Frustrated, Lexi turns to her shelves for answers. And what have the classics taught her? That when lovers ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Short Story of the Novel

    A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques

    by Henry Russell ...
    A fascinating and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why they are important, the book illuminates the most significant writing genres, themes and techniques.Accessible and fun to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Deep Reading

    Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age

    This book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth.The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices--distraction, hostility, and consumerism--that impact the possibility of formative reading. Informed by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Book-Makers

    A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

    by Adam Smyth ...
    The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created themBooks tell all kinds of stories—romances, tragedies, comedies—but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture’s most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Tamil Prose after Bharathi

    by Vallikannan ...
    Translated by S Thillainayagam ...
    Before Bharathi, Tamil writers considered writing in a way readers cannot understand as a mark of punditry. It was almost a tradition to employ a difficult style to explain even a simple matter. After showing the readers how involuted and difficult the styles of writers before Bharathi were, Vallikannan discusses the innovative features of Bharathi and the impact they made on his successors. He ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Inventions of A Present

    The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

    The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and moreA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation, and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of ... Read more

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  • Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom), updating these conversations to include intersectionality specifically, broadly ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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