Most American - Notes from a Wounded Place by Rilla Askew; Susan Kates (Foreword by)
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself--and indeed all Americans--in the role ...Show more
My Soul Looks Back - A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris
$37.78 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York City. In the Tec ...Show more
Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry in Translation
"Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war," writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title poem to her powerful new collectionNegative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive d ...Show more
Neruda: The Poet's Calling by Mark Eisner
$57.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the w ...Show more
Nevada Days by Bernardo Atxaga
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Category: Translation
A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque authorNine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived with his wife and two daughters, research at the Center for Basque Studies in Reno, Nevada, ...Show more
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha
$0.00 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, B ...Show more
No One Cares about Crazy People - The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
$59.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
* Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * People Magazine Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * "Extraordinary and courageous . . . No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would change."---New ...Show more
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin; Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction by)
$41.57 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"On breakfast: "Eatin ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
Off Speed - Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception by Terry McDermott
$17.11 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
The lively and fascinating story of the 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch--the ultimate Father's Day gift for any dad who loves baseball. Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing In August 2012, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners pitched a perfect game against the Tampa Bay ...Show more
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson; Dick Durbin (Introduction by, Foreword by)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public Library From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of ...Show more
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
$50.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Seale ...Show more