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Language
English
Description
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to "hear" a book on audiotape, decipher...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Inc
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller's novels when sh e was growing up and they changed her life. When the ambitious Heather decides to write her master's thesis about Schiller's work and set s out to meet him convinced she can bring Schiller back into the literary world's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation.
Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Three Floors Up, a literary page-turner that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona. A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer? How autobiographical are your books? Have you written any stories you would never publish? Usually his answers in these...
5) Stone reader
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1972 Mark Moskowitz read a New York Times book review of "The stones of summer" by Dow Mossman, a title which, later in Moskowitz's life would later become an object of obsession. Though he shelved the book for 25 years, Moskowitz finally read it and was amazed at its ingenuity. He was shocked that its one-time author never penned another book. Determined to solve the mystery, Moskowitz documented his research project in finding the forgotten author...
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures. This compelling account of life on the road with Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction"--
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Lee Child know well that the muscular star of his bestselling novels, Jack Reacher, is a man of few words--and a lot of action. In Reacher Said Nothing, Andy Martin shadows Child like a literary private eye in a yearlong investigation of what it takes to make fiction's hottest hero hit the page running. The result is a fascinating, up-close-and-personal look into the world and ways of an expert storyteller's creative process as he undertakes...
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Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
c2013]
Language
English
Description
"A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied...
10) Amy's O
Publisher
Distributed by Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Amy has recently published a self-help book in which she discusses why a woman doesn't need a man in her life to feel fulfilled. But Amy isn't so sure she believes her own advice. Feeling conflicted, she ends up sharing her problems with a priest at a nearby Catholic church. As Amy's book hits the stores, her publicist snags Amy an appearance on a radio show hosted by a popular but foul-mouthed "shock jock." He is exactly the sort of man Amy warns...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The author traces the significant yet underappreciated historical role that mass-market paperbacks of Jane Austen's books have played in making her the celebrated author she is today. This is a work of bibliography and of literary history. The author has amassed a large collection of rare and forgotten Austen volumes with rich, colorful, and sometimes gaudy covers that are featured, selectively, as figures in the book"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
In his bestselling What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool brilliantly unlocked the mysteries of the English novel. Now, in his long-awaited Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters, Pool turns his keen eye to England's great Victorian novelists themselves, to reveal the surprisingly human private side of their public genius. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters explores the outrageous publicity stunts,...
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