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Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.
At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on... Read more >
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.
At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
New York Stories
Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
Written by Editors of New York Magazine
Foreword by Tom Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $17.00
The magazine that is the city that is the world
Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades.
Covering subjects from “Radical... Read more >
Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
Written by Editors of New York Magazine
Foreword by Tom Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $17.00
The magazine that is the city that is the world
Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades.
Covering subjects from “Radical... Read more >
The Liberal Imagination
Written by Lionel Trilling
Introduction by Louis Menand
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s... Read more >
Written by Lionel Trilling
Introduction by Louis Menand
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s... Read more >
White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $27.95
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $27.95
The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson—recluse, poet—and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.
Their friendship began in 1862. The Civil War was raging. Dickinson was thirty-one; Higginson, thirty-eight. A former pastor at the Free Church of Worcester, Massachusetts...
Also available as an
eBook.
Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $21.95
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. ... Read more >
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $21.95
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. ... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Introduction by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $15.95
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of... Read more >
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Introduction by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $15.95
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of... Read more >
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Written by Tom Robbins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $12.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of... Read more >
Written by Tom Robbins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $12.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of... Read more >
Goethe's Faust
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 4, 1962
Price: $10.95
The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two. Read more >
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 4, 1962
Price: $10.95
The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two. Read more >
Proud Highway
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $18.95
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $18.95
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
