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Magically Black and Other Essays
*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the...
The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the
The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided "mind" of America during the Depression and popular stage works of...
Cinema Speculation
A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number...
What Was Literature?: Class Culture And Mass Society
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Celebrations And Attacks: Thirty Years Of Literary And Cultural Commentary
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Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
It seems like we can't talk about anything nowadays... Whether it's war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying - from...
Walter Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity
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A Sand Archive: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019
WINNER OF THE PATRICK WHITE LITERARY AWARD Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but...
The Double Life of the Family: Myth, hope and experience
The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these...
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against
"Rosemary's baby has grown up and is running Hollywood. One of America's greatest industries has become one of the most destructive. Entertainment titans like Walt Disney, Morrie Ryskind, and Frank...
The Art of the Interview: Lessons from a Master of the Craft
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THE ULTIMATE INSIDER'S LOOK AT THE FINE ART OF INTERVIEWING "I had a fantasy the other night that this interview is so great that they no longer want me to...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings....
Imagining Mars: A Literary History
For centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien...
Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers
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Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...
Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics,
Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its...
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art
In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker,...
Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
It seems like we can't talk about anything nowadays... Whether it's war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying - from...
The Critics Bear it away: American Fiction and the Academy
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The book titled The Critics Bear it away: American Fiction and the Academy by the author Frederick C. Crews. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Virgin Islands
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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen-An Authorized
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Allen himself, his family members (including actor and poet Jo Harvey Allen, his wife and artistic partner of more than sixty years), and his...
Approach To Literature
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Edition: 4th ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some wear and corner damage to covers, particularly the top right corner. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No...
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to
During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with the name you would like the book dedicated to...
Buckley's Chance
From Walkley Award-winning writer, Gary Linnell comes the greatest Australian story never told - until now. 'Always compelling, very entertaining.' Daily Telegraph 'A fabulous yarn. Highly recommended.' Better Reading He...
Culture Warrior
Bill O'Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior--and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at...
Melville
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Butter: Novellas, Stories and Fragments
'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend' - Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of THERE...
Once an Australian
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Practice: Journalism, essays and criticism
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Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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Making Words Dance: Reflections on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing
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When revered Notre Dame alumnus and award-winning journalist Red Smith died in 1982, the University created a lecture series in his name, sponsored by John and Susan McMeel and Universal...
Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else
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Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He's also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America's long-standing love-hate relationship...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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What We've Lost: How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our
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"What We've Lost "addresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration" "by one of our leading magazine editors, Graydon Carter. Carter has expressed...
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit
Author: Carmen Maria Machado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or...
Ok You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors
A hip and entertaining book on famous and forgotten celluloid heroes: Patti Smith on Jeanne Moreau Malu Halasa on Robert Carlyle Ginny Dougary on Liz Taylor Greil Marcus on J.T....
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You...