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  • George Saunders' Pastoralia: Bookmarked

    by Charles Holdefer ...
    Series Book 9 - Bookmarked
    George Saunders’ Pastoralia is an exaggerated dystopia of late capitalist America, merging the spirit of James Thurber with the world of the Simpsons. In his entry in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author Charles Holdefer addresses how Saunders captures the pain and absurdity of the American service sector, and does justice to the dignity of the people who struggle there.Charles ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Devil's Dictionary

    Enriched edition. A Sardonic Lexicon of Dark Wit, Cynical Humor, and Subversive Social Commentary

    by Ambrose Bierce ...
    In "The Devil's Dictionary," Ambrose Bierce offers a brilliant and satirical lexicon that critiques the hypocrisy and absurdities of human nature and societal conventions. Written in a sharp, witty prose style that exemplifies Bierce's mastery of irony and wordplay, the work transforms the conventional dictionary format into a highly subversive commentary on language and morality. Through entries ... Read more

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  • The Infernos of Dante and Dan Brown

    A Visitor's Guide to Hell: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

    by Gary Jansen ...
    A terrific companion to the new Dan Brown movie, Inferno! Take an extraordinary journey into the signs and symbols behind Dan Brown’s latest Robert Langdon thriller.Just in time for the blockbuster movie, this short guide introduces readers to Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century epic poem Inferno and explores how Brown uses Dante’s imagery and symbols in his fast-paced novel.The Infernos of Dante ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Haunted Life

    and Other Writings

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary confidant, Sebastian Sampas, lost his life on the Anzio beachhead while serving as a US Army medic. That spring -- still reeling with grief over Sebastian -- Kerouac solidified his friendships with Lucien Carr, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, offsetting the loss of Sampas by immersing himself in ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

    Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    This selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation’s greatest and most divisive thinkers—featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry.“ . . . pulls together some of Hitchens’s greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit.” —New York Times Book ReviewIf someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction?One of his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The House That Jack Built (New Edition)

    The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

    by Jack Spicer ...
    The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Trimalchio

    An Early Version of The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald’s working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius—now available in ebook for the first time.Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio, an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby, is like listening to a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sanity Plea

    Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

    by Lawrence R. Broer ...
    In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut’s works from Player Piano to Hocus Pocus, taking a decisively new approach to the work of one of America’s most important, yet often misinterpreted writers. A compelling and original ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Postmodern/Postwar and After

    Rethinking American Literature

    Edited by Jason Gladstone, Andrew Hoberek, Daniel Worden ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

    Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Bryan Waterman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Body of Property

    Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

    by Chad Luck ...
    What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions.Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range ... Read more

    $29.69 USD