Brillant, exigeant, un texte de la reconstruction psychique et artistique qui confronte avec pudeur et
élégance deux questions essentielles : pourquoi écrire ? Pourquoi vivre ? Il fut un temps où je lisais les carnets de Katherine Mansfield pour me ...
The book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England's status as
cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex regional relationships ...
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty
years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to ...
In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature:
a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. “A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead“What a ...
Unlike other biographical portraits of Ezra Pound, John Tytell’s brilliant and ambitious work offers an
interpretive study that boldly confronts the emotional truths and psychological drama that formed this complex and controversial American poet. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, ...
Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious.—USA Today Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply
funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir. The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one ...
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship
and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.I had a baseball ...
In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group
of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made ...