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Dream I Tell You
Helene Cixous. Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780231138833.  Daedalus Item Code: 93184
 
For years, Hélène Cixous—a French literature professor and the author of Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint—has been writing down fragments of her dreams immediately after ... (Read More)
 
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
John Updike.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307266408.  Daedalus Item Code: 31048
 
This sixth collection of essays and literary criticism from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on ... (Read More)
 
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Dylan Thomas in America
John Malcolm Brinnin.
Publisher: Prion.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781853753787.  Daedalus Item Code: 03940
 
When the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrived in New York on his first visit, in 1950, for a tour of poetry readings around the country, America didn't know what had hit it. Angelic, devilish, ... (Read More)
 
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The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas de Quincey
Robert Morrison.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781605981321.  Daedalus Item Code: 22241
 
Author of the famed and scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) enjoyed friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian ... (Read More)
 
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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
Simon Garfield.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780151013968.  Daedalus Item Code: 12181
 
This engaging memoir from the author of Mauve illuminates the philatelist's mania for stamp collecting. From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to ... (Read More)
 
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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060593247.  Daedalus Item Code: 21133
 
Here Nicholas Basbanes—the author of Patience and Fortitude and Among the Gently Mad, and deemed by David McCullough to be "our leading author of books about books"—considers books that ... (Read More)
 
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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick. Pamela Jackson & Jonathan Lethem, eds.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780547549255.  Daedalus Item Code: 23866
 
Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent, imaginative final work from an author ... (Read More)
 
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Exiles
Michael J. Arlen.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780374532604.  Daedalus Item Code: 21691
 
(National Book Award nominee) The story of two glamorous people—Countess Atalanta Mercati, a beautiful aristocrat, and Michael Arlen, an Armenian immigrant and one of the most popular authors ... (Read More)
 
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Fallen Angels
Harold Bloom. Mark Podwal, illus.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300123487.  Daedalus Item Code: 92192
 
Every angel is terrifying, Rilke wrote. For Harold Bloom, too, this is true in one sense, since he maintains that all angels are fallen angels. The image of Satan, the greatest of fallen angels, ... (Read More)
 
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Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple Jr.
R.W. Apple Jr. Corby Kummer, foreword.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780312650636.  Daedalus Item Code: 20601
 
Celebrated journalist R.W. ("Johnny") Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief, and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate about was ... (Read More)
 
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson.
Hunter S. Thompson. Jann S. Wenner, ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781439165959.  Daedalus Item Code: 32144
 
"Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it largely defined both his work and his life. This full-blooded collection of his finest work for Rolling ... (Read More)
 
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Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995–
John Barth.
Publisher: Counterpoint.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781582437569.  Daedalus Item Code: 30007
 
The National Book Award–winning author of Chimera, Lost in the Funhouse, and The Floating Opera, as well as the recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award and PEN/Malamud Award, ... (Read More)
 
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