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“james wolcott”

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  • Critical Mass

    Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

    by James Wolcott ...
    A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our timeFrom his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies, and television to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous to ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • A Hitch in Time

    Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lucking Out

    My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies

    by James Wolcott ...
    "How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • The Catsitters

    A Novel

    by James Wolcott ...

    $6.99 USD

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    The Ritz of the Bayou

    The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering ... and other aspects of life in the tropic zone

    by Nancy Lemann ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 10 min

    In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans–born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

    The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror

    by James Wolcott ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation. ... Read more

    $20.97 USD

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    A Hitch in Time

    Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Narrated by James Wolcott, Hannibal Hills ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Best American Essays 2023

    by Robert Atwan, Vivian Gornick ...
    Narrated by Will Tulin, Marie Hoffman, Elena Rey, Elyse Dinh, Katharine Chin, Pun Pandhu, Ewan Chung, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Lede

    Dispatches from a Life in the Press

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin“The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us.”—Dwight Garner, The New York ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    Trailerpark

    by Russell Banks ...
    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    ""Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream."" — Washington Post Book WorldIn this series of related short stories, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Reopening of the Western Mind

    The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment

    by Charles Freeman ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 37 min

    A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment—500 to 1700 AD—tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved, setting the stage for the modern era.Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times [London]), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the ... Read more

    $32.50 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Rendezvous with Oblivion

    Reports from a Sinking Society

    by Thomas Frank ...
    Narrated by Thomas Frank ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times—perfect for this political moment.What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America’s winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country?With his sharp eye ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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