Essays | Essays
Feb.09.2009
"As an Ioway Indian, [Lance Foster] is interested in the landscape as it was when his ancestors left Iowa in the early nineteenth century, so he went to the Neal Smith refuge, hoping to see the msall herd of buffalo that had been introduced and the prairie "returning to life." In...
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Nov.16.2008
38 contemporary writers dish the dirt on cleaning and housekeeping in this anthology of personal essays: Ann Hood, Joyce Maynard, Rebecca Walker, Richard Goodman, Louise DeSalvo, Janice Eidus, Rebecca McClanahan, Kyoko Mori, Pamela Paul, Alissa Quart, Sally Koslow – to name but a few – share their...
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Nov.10.2008
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...
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Oct.12.2008
Synopsis:
Is there a social function in the Movies ? If so,what is it and how can it be revealed through major films?
Review:
The book deals with the psychological and socialogical aspect of movies. Their relationship to human dreams and their impact on the psychic of the audiences It...
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Aug.14.2008
This is a collection of essays by well-known poets on May Sarton's poetry. Unique essays by William Stafford, Linda Pastan, Richard Chess, among others. The book includes photos of early drafts of May Sarton's poetry, and previously unpublished translations from French poetry by Sarton...
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Aug.12.2008
"Ms. Joseph's sense of the apt detail, of the rapid-fire of human commerce, of the way the important gets hidden in the flippant, the hilarity of it all, the sadness, too, the sympathy she emits and provokes for the complexity of just living -- all that makes this book irresistible to me....
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Aug.10.2008
PRAISE FOR SMILEY'S WRITING
"Funny, smart and real." - Dave Barry
"Three-beer honesty..." - Frank Cerabino, The Palm Beach Post
"An unexpected voice..." - The New York Times
"A witty observer of her life and times!" - The Times-Record
ABOUT THE BOOK
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