American Literature

 

Something urgent I have to say to you : the life and works of William Carlos Williams / Herbert Leibowitz. Details
Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter / Seth Grahame-Smith. Details
African spirituality in Black women's fiction : threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being / Elizabeth J. West. Details
After Ashley / by Gina Gionfriddo. Details
Agee at 100 : centennial essays on the works of James Agee / edited by Michael A. Lofaro. Details
All I did was shoot my man / Walter Mosley. Details
Almost invisible / Mark Strand. Details
Angels & demons / Dan Brown. Details
Anxiety and evil in the writings of Patricia Highsmith / Fiona Peters. Details
An apricot year : a novel Martha Egan. Details
The art and life of Clarence Major / Keith E. Byerman. Details
Astounding wonder : imagining science and science fiction in interwar America / John Cheng. Details
At-risk : stories / by Amina Gautier. Details
August Wilson : completing the twentieth-century cycle / edited by Alan Nadel. Details
The autobiography of a pocket handkerchief / James Fenimore Cooper edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils and James P. Elliott. Details
The Baileys Harbor bird and booyah club / Dave Crehore. Details
The beginner's goodbye : a novel / by Anne Tyler. Details
Billy the Kid and other plays / Rudolfo Anaya with an afterword by Cecilia J. Aragón and Robert Con Davis-Undiano. Details
Bogmeadow's wish / Terry Kay. Details
The bravo : a Venetian story / James Fenimore Cooper edited by Lance Schachterle and James A. Sappenfield historical introduction by Kay Seymour House explanatory notes by Anna Scannavini. Details
Butterfly in the typewriter : the tragic life of John Kennedy Toole and the remarkable story of A confederacy of dunces / Cory MacLauchlin. Details
The Cambridge companion to Thomas Pynchon / edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale. Details
Canada / Richard Ford. Details
Cannery Row / John Steinbeck with an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw. Details
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white / Emily Bernard. Details
Chair of tears / Gerald Vizenor. Details
Chinglish : a play / David Henry Hwang Chinese translations by Candace Mui Ngam Chong Chinese language editing by Joanna C. Lee. Details
Clybourne Park : [a play] / Bruce Norris. Details
Collapsible poetics theater / Rodrigo Toscano. Details
The color of desire [and] Hurricane : two plays / Nilo Cruz. Details
The columnist : a play / by David Auburn. Details
Come and get it : a poem and three stories / by Kevin Kling [illustrations by Michael Sommers]. Details
A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole foreword by Walker Percy. Details
A death at the White Camellia Orphanage : a novel / Marly Youmans. Details
Death by fire / Anderson Reynolds. Details
Death of a salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem / Arthur Miller with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby. Details
Destiny's daughters : 9 voices of P.J. Gibson / by P.J. Gibson. Details
A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / Alice Kessler-Harris. Details
Dirtdobber blues : a novel / Cyril E. Vetter. Details
Disciplining girls : understanding the origins of the classic orphan girl story / Joe Sutliff Sanders. Details
Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick. Details
Double shadow / Carl Phillips. Details
E. B. White : the essayist as first-class writer / G. Douglas Atkins. Details
Earth works : selected essays / Scott Russell Sanders. Details
Elizabeth Bishop in the twenty-first century : reading the new editions / edited by Angus Cleghorn, Bethany Hicok, and Thomas Travisano. Details
Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America / Christopher Bram. Details
The eternal ones of the dream : selected poems, 1990 - 2010 / James Tate. Details
Exorcism : a play in one act / Eugene O'Neill foreword by Edward Albee. Details
The faery gardener : a pagan primer / Hearthstone Firetender illustrations by Chandler O'Leary. Details
Farther away / Jonathan Franzen. Details
Faulkner and Hemingway : biography of a literary rivalry / Joseph Fruscione. Details
Five novels of the 1940s & 50s / David Goodis Robert Polito, editor. Details
Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes. Details
A game of thrones / George R.R. Martin. Details
Gonzo republic : Hunter S. Thompson's America / William Stephenson. Details
Higher gossip : essays and criticism / by John Updike edited by Christopher Carduff. Details
Hmmm-- / [words and pictures by Andy Farkas]. Details
Home / Toni Morrison. Details
Home is an island : a novel / Alfred Lewis foreword by Devin Nunes preface by Frank F. Sousa. Details
Imagining the forest : narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest / John Knott. Details
In my power : letter writing and communications in early America / Konstantin Dierks. Details
In one person : a novel / John Irving. Details
The jester and the sages : Mark Twain in conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx / Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., Catherine Carlstroem. Details
Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan / William Hjortsberg. Details
Keep your pantheon (and School) : two unrelated plays / David Mamet. Details
The last holiday : a memoir / Gil Scott-Heron. Details
The letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams / edited by Christopher MacGowan. Details
Liebestod : opera buffa with Leib Goldkorn / Leslie Epstein. Details
Life on Mars : poems / Tracy K. Smith. Details
Lorine Niedecker : a poet's life / Margot Peters. Details
Loving longing leaving / Michael Weller. Details
The lower river / Paul Theroux. Details
Lucky Bruce : a literary memoir / Bruce Jay Friedman. Details
Midstream : an unfinished memoir / Reynolds Price. Details
Ministers of fire : a novel / Mark Harril Saunders. Details
Miss Fuller : a novel / April Bernard. Details
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / by Ransom Riggs. Details
Mitzvah man / John J. Clayton. Details
Mudwoman / Joyce Carol Oates. Details
Murder in Lascaux / Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden. Details
Murder in Mount Holly / Paul Theroux. Details
Mutha' is half a word : intersections of folklore, vernacular, myth, and queerness in black female culture / L.H. Stallings. Details
Naming Jhumpa Lahiri : canons and controversies / edited by Lavina Dhingra and Floyd Cheung. Details
Nocturne : a play / by Adam Rapp. Details
Novels & stories 1950-1962 / Kurt Vonnegut Sidney Offit, editor. Details
The Oxford handbook of modern and contemporary American poetry / edited by Cary Nelson. Details
The pale king : an unfinished novel / David Foster Wallace. Details
Partisans / Rodgrigo Toscano. Details
Plays / David Mamet. Details
Plays / Phyllis Nagy introduced by Michael Cooney with a preface by the author. Details
Plays / Roy Williams introduced by Indhu Rubasingham with a foreword by the author. Details
Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film / Peter Caster. Details
Promiscuous : Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness / Bernard Avishai. Details
Ralph Ellison and the genius of America / Timothy Parrish. Details
Remembrance of things I forgot : a novel / Bob Smith. Details
Renegade : Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer / Frederick Turner. Details
Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction / Rachel Carroll. Details
The rise and fall of early American magazine culture / Jared Gardner. Details
Rode / Thomas Fox Averill. Details
A room where the Star-Spangled Banner cannot be heard : a novel in three parts / Levy Hideo translated by Christopher D. Scott. Details
The sea is my brother / Jack Kerouac introduction by Dawn Ward. Details
Secrecy and sapphic modernism : reading 'Romans à clef' between the wars / Sashi Nair. Details
Secure the shadow : poems / Claudia Emerson. Details
See you in the dark : poems / Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Details
Sequoia gardens : California stories / Ernest J. Finney. Details
Six tales of the jazz age, and other stories / by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Details
Solitary places / Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder. Details
The Southern poetry anthology / edited by Stephen Gardner and William Wright. Details
A spell on the water / Marjorie Kowalski Cole. Details
State of wonder / Ann Patchett. Details
Stealing history / Gerald Stern. Details
The strange case of Edward Gorey / Alexander Theroux. Details
Tender is the night : a romance / F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by James L.W. West III. Details
The tortilla curtain / T. Coraghessan Boyle. Details
Unstuck in time : a journey through Kurt Vonnegut's life and novels / Gregory D. Sumner. Details
Visions of Cody / Jack Kerouac. With The visions of the great rememberer / by Allen Ginsberg. Details
The waters of Star Lake : a novel / Sara Rath. Details
When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. Details
When we were outlaws : a memoir of love and revolution / Jeanne Córdova. Details
Who will hear your secrets? : stories / by Robley Wilson. Details
The whole truth / Kit Pearson. Details
William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / Benjamin E. Wise. Details
The year's best science fiction. Details