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“jeff allred”

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  • American Modernism and Depression Documentary

    by Jeff Allred ...
    Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression ... Read more

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  • The Fun of It

    Stories from The Talk of the Town

    by James Thurber, John Updike, E. B. White ...
    William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way.The Fun of It is the first anthology of ... Read more

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  • The Typewriter Is Holy

    The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation

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    2014 ACKER AWARD WINNERAnyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation.In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country’s leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of ... Read more

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  • Sense of Place and Sense of Planet

    The Environmental Imagination of the Global

    by Ursula K. Heise ...
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  • Poetry in Person

    Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets

    Edited by Alexander Neubauer ...
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  • Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

    by Will Norman ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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  • Manly Health and Training

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    by Walt Whitman ...
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  • The Little Magazine in Contemporary America

    Edited by Ian Morris, Joanne Diaz ...
    Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging writers become established authors. Although changing technology and the increasingly harsh financial realities of publishing over the past three ... Read more

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  • The Message of the City

    Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925–1962

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  • War + Ink

    New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings

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