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American literature 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc Authors and readers Authorship Books and reading Criticism Political aspects Literature History and criticism Theory, etc Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc Politics and culture Politics and literatureColes, Robert.
Summary: Dr. Coles shows how the work of writers, artists, and thinkers of the past two centuries can inspire our own reflections on our daily lives. He offers a compelling call to venture outside our own selves and lives and to listen, attentively and with growing humanity, to the way others get through life, and he encourages us to examine our own character, kindness, and complexity by studying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9355 COLLethem, Jonathan
Summary: "A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LETSmith, Ali
Summary: Presents a meditative collection of writings on the nature of art and storytelling and incorporates tribute elements to iconic writers and artists throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 SMIBayard, Pierre
Summary: Offers advice to people on how to talk about books they have not read, including books they have skimmed, heard about, or read and forgotten, analyzes situations in which people might find themselves talking about books they have not read, and includes recommendations on how to resolve such social dilemmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 BAYAlvarez, A. (Alfred)
Contents: Finding a Voice -- Listening -- The Cult of Personality and the Myth of the Artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 801.92 ALVPoe, Edgar Allan
Contents: Theory of poetry -- Reviews of British and continental authors -- Reviews of American authors and American literature -- Magazines and criticism -- The literary and social scene -- Articles and marginalia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 POEKazin, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 KAZSummary: In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 BEASaid, Edward W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000