A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August
10 best books like A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August (William Faulkner): Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Ani DiFranco: Verses, The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book, Collected Poetry & Prose, One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir, Three Lives & Tender Buttons, Someone to Watch Over Me, La Medusa, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, Moloch: or, This Gentile World
| Author | Camille T. Dungy |
| ISBN | 0820332771 |
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work,...
| Author | Ani DiFranco |
| ISBN | 1583228233 |
“She’s got the gift of lyrical precision—nothing cuts to the core quite like the resolution of DiFranco rhyme.”—Billboard
With eight Grammy nominations, a gold record, and sales of over 4.5 million, Ani DiFranco is one of America’s most fiercely independent and beloved musicians,...
| Author | Bill Cosby |
| ISBN | 0590956183 |
Cosby, Bill, and Varnette P. Honeywood. The Treasure Hunt. New York: Scholastic, 1997. Print. Easy Reader. The Treasure Hunt is about a young boy who wants to find what he is good at. So he talks to his Grandma about it and she says that he needs to go on a treasure hunt to find what he is looking for. He goes...
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 1883011450 |
The Library of America is not a cheap publishing house, but their editions are worth every penny you pay for them.
Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you...
One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir
| Author | Paul Guest |
| ISBN | 0061685178 |
Paul Guest was a normal 12-year-old, fascinated with the old firecrackers his grandfather kept in a jar. He'd break them up and set fire to the rupture, creating showers of sparks. The day after he graduated from grade school, he borrowed a bicycle, lost control, and flipped it. Lying on the ground, unable...
Three Lives & Tender Buttons
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0451528727 |
Three Lives is...magnificent, ground-breakingly original, exciting, controversial, ahead-of-its-time...These are just a few adjectives that come immediately to mind when I think of this book.
For those who say that Gertrude Stein is 'difficult' to read, then boy try reading Faulkner...
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0060930705 |
Richard Bausch is a master of the intimate moment, of the ways we seek to make lasting connections to one another and to the world. Few writers evoke the complexities of love as subtly, and few capture the poignancy of the sudden insight or the rhythms of ordinary conversation with such delicacy and humor....
| Author | Vanessa Place |
| ISBN | 1573661457 |
La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion,...
| Author | Jimmy Santiago Baca |
| ISBN | 0811210324 |
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or "detribalized Apache." Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home...
Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller's years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the rapidly changing New York City of the early twenties, its hero is the rough-and-tumble Dion Moloch, a...
| Author | Lawrence E. Cahoone |
| ISBN | 0631232133 |
This revised and expanded second edition of Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism.
Places contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century.
Chronologically...
Porgy by DuBose Heyward with an afterword by James M. Hutchisson This is the first major southern novel to portray African Americans outside the stereotypes. This novel is the story of Porgy, a crippled street-beggar in the black tenement. Unwashed and unwanted, he lives just on the edge of subsistence...
| Author | John Cottingham |
| ISBN | 0631186271 |
From ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today, Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition.
In 100 substantial and carefully chosen extracts, the volume covers all the main branches of philosophy...
| Author | Dennis McFarland |
| ISBN | 0312420625 |
On the way home from dinner, Malcolm Vaughn is shot and killed in front of his family - the victim of a random act of violence. Undone by shock and grief, his wife Sarah retreats from the world, postponing her return to work and their son Harry's return to school. Harry appears to have come through the loss...
| Author | V.S. Naipaul |
| ISBN | 0330420232 |
This anthology was assembled shortly after Naipaul won the Nobel Prize. Its repetitiveness suggests that the publishers wanted to get something new -- or "newish"-- out while the award was still fresh. You get many retellings of Naipaul's life story, his determination to become a writer, and his relationship...
| Author | Milton Hatoum |
| ISBN | 8571640394 |
Após um longo período de ausência, uma mulher regressa a Manaus, cidade de sua infância. Deseja encontrar Emilie, a extraordinária matriarca de uma família libanesa há muito radicada ali. Encontra a casa desfeita - como desfeitas para sempre estão as casas da infância.
Situado...
| Author | Robert Drewe |
| ISBN | 0142003158 |
The first novel written about the bushcountry gunslinger who was both the national hero and devil incarnate of Australia, Ned Kelly imagines the inner life of a figure described by historian Manning Clark as "a wild ass of a man, snarling, roaring and frothing like a ferocious beast when the tamer entered...
| Author | Jeffrey McDaniel |
| ISBN | 0916397556 |
This book has been rated highly by many so some justification is in order here. I picked this up having read a few McDaniel poems online, such as The Scars of Utopia and The Quiet World . Both are wonderful poems, original and thought-provoking. The latter in particular, with its context established so...
| Author | Charlene Ann Baumbich |
| ISBN | 0307444732 |
When the road home becomes daunting—sometimes a very capable girl on a bicycle can help find the way.
“Charming, surprising, familiar, and just downright wonderful.”
—Allie Pleiter, author of Yukon Wedding and Bluegrass Blessings
When principal ballerina...
| Author | Tania Zamorsky |
| ISBN | 1402725345 |
Tania Zamorsky does a wonderful job in captivating the classic stories of King Arthur in one book. Her rendition follows the marvelous legends of the great "Kingdom of Camelot" that King Arthur built . From the classic stories of the Sword in the Stone to the Quest for the Holy Grail and the captivating...
| Author | Steve Fiffer |
| ISBN | 0716740176 |
Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in a ferocious fight -- fell into the riverbed and died. In 1990 her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many have called the most spectacular dinosaur fossil...
| Author | Arthur Miller |
| ISBN | 0670038288 |
A moving, final collection of stories by Arthur Miller
Throughout his career as one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller wrote a remarkable series of highly regarded short stories, pieces that reveal the same profound insight, humanism, and empathy that are...
| Author | Holly Weiss |
| ISBN | 1935188100 |
"A dream, after all, needn't be fueled by particulars, only by desire." So notes main character, Gracie Antes, in CRESTMONT, a historical fiction gem set in the 1920s. Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing career....
