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Unfriending My Ex: Confessions of a Social Media Addict

Kim Stolz · Scribner,
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

"In this candid and insightful new memoir, Kim Stolz discusses the trials and tribulations of our obsession with social media and mobile technology...a Tweet-worthy, share-worthy, Instagrammable look into our society and the lives we create online." - Harper's Bazaar An incisive,...
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Virginia Woolf and 20th Century Women Writers

Kathryn Stelmach Artuso (Author, Editor) · Salem Pr; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This volume examines a diverse set of texts published by notable women in the mid-20th century. From Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood to Willa Cather and Kate Chopin, essays survey the critical conversation regarding these works, explore their historical, societal and cultural contexts,...
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The Lunatic: Poems

Charles Simic · Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself.This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America's most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered...
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Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books

Michael Dirda · Pegasus Books, 2015. Â2015
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

From Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life -- the perfect companion for any lover of books. Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the...
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American Writers, Supplement XXV: A collection of critical Literary and biographical articles that cover hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present day.

Gale (Editor) · Charles Scribner & Sons; 025 edition
Format: Hardcover

This collection of critical and biographical articles covers hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays, 12-15 pages in length by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers and works
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The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

Zach Dundas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sleuth Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after...
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The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103

William Patrick Martin · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Mother of All BOOKLIST s: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue composite of all the major booklists. It brings...
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The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

Harold Bloom · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHailed as "the indispensable critic" by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom - New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University - has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion...
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Metaphysical Dog: Poems

Frank Bidart · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Printing edition

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerA National Book Award FinalistA vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work todayIn “Those Nights,” Frank Bidart writes: “We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not.” Words...
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The Essential Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg · Harper Perennial

Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generation's most renowned...
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