Cheever
8 best books like Cheever (Blake Bailey): Leaves of Grass, The Stories of John Cheever, Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley, Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Best American Short Stories of the Century, The Radical King, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."
As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
The Stories of John Cheever
| Author | John Cheever |
| ISBN | 0375724427 |
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer,"...
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot...
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It
From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and...
| Author | John Cheever |
| ISBN | 0060528877 |
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0395843677 |
Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES...
| Author | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| ISBN | 0807012823 |
A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X
“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
| Author | Jonathan M. Metzl |
| ISBN | 1541644980 |
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...
