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| The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays
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Michele Clarke & Taylor Plimpton, eds. P.J. O'Rourke, intro.
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| Publisher: Abrams Image. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780810982659. Daedalus Item Code: 20005 |
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| A balm for the millions of people who face Christmastime with a mixture of dread and obligation, this anthology, which includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on these and many other related ... (Read More)
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| Dream I Tell You
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Helene Cixous. Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.
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| Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780231138833. Daedalus Item Code: 93184 |
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| 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
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John Updike.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307266408. Daedalus Item Code: 31048 |
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| 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
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John Malcolm Brinnin.
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| Publisher: Prion. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781853753787. Daedalus Item Code: 03940 |
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| 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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| Envy: A Dictionary for the Jealous
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Editors of Adams Media.
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| Publisher: Adams Media. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781440528026. Daedalus Item Code: 30228 |
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| "Envy (EN-vee), noun: The desire to have the possessions or status of another." While envy is perhaps best defined in a wanting gaze, this desirable dictionary captures the spirit of the most ... (Read More)
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| The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
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Simon Garfield.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151013968. Daedalus Item Code: 12181 |
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| 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
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Nicholas A. Basbanes.
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| Publisher: Harper Perennial. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780060593247. Daedalus Item Code: 21133 |
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| 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
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Philip K. Dick. Pamela Jackson & Jonathan Lethem, eds.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780547549255. Daedalus Item Code: 23866 |
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| 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
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Michael J. Arlen.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374532604. Daedalus Item Code: 21691 |
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| (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
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Harold Bloom. Mark Podwal, illus.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300123487. Daedalus Item Code: 92192 |
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| 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.
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R.W. Apple Jr. Corby Kummer, foreword.
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| Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312650636. Daedalus Item Code: 20601 |
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| 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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