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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events …
In this book novelist Colm T ib n offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. …
Imagine keeping a record of every book you've ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of the New York Times Book …
Countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake -- James Joyce's 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life -- have given up after a few pages and "dismissed the …
"Om du är lycklig nog att som ung ha fått leva i Paris, så finns staden alltid hos dig vart du än sedan kommer, ty Paris är en fest för livet."Hemingway skrev En fest för livet …
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers."You …
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life."I sometimes think I was born reading...I can't remember the time when I …
Vilhelm Moberg var en av det svenska 1900-talets största diktare, som med sina utvandrarromaner om Karl Oskar och Kristina skrev seklets mest lästa och älskade litterära verk. …
Tora Dahls och Knut Jaenssons villa på Lidingö var det litterära 30-talets självklara centrum. Alla tidens stora författare var där, från Gunnar Ekelöf till Eyvind Johnson, för att …
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the …