Literary Book Review
More Matter
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This volume of prose by John Updike covering 40 years of journalism, criticism, and book reviews includes essays on writers (Melville, Wharton, Dreiser, Camille Paglia, Joseph Brodsky, Edmund Wilson), Al Capp, English grammar, Mickey Mouse, and ol...
Me and Shakespeare
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“[A] lively hybrid of memoir, Bildungsromanand literary criticism [with] the conversational ease, raconteur’s charm and digressive storytelling of a one-man show.”--The New York Times Book Review“A ...
The Pushcart Prize 2001
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The quarter-century edition of a distinguished annual literary event (Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review). For its twenty-fifth year, The Pushcart Prize surpasses itself with a stunning presentation of new and celebrated authors....
Works and Lives
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`America`s most renowned cultural anthropologist...analyzes the literary forms of several anthropologist notables.`-Richard A. Scweder, The New York Times Book Review Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
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When celebrated literary critic and New York Times Book Review editor Broyard learned that he had cancer, he determined to see h Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
Beowulf
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney`s translation accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right (New York Times Book Review).