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There Is Simply Too Much to Think About Collected Nonfiction

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

A New Literary History of America — Greil Marcus

A New Literary History of America

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

100 Key Books of the Modern Movement from England, France & America, 1880-1950 — Cyril Connolly

100 Key Books of the Modern Movement from England, France & America, 1880-1950

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Beyond Gatsby How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture — Robert McParland

Beyond Gatsby How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture

Robert McParland

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Young Adult Literature From Romance to Realism — Michael Cart

Young Adult Literature From Romance to Realism

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

The Errant Art of Moby-Dick The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies — William V. Spanos

The Errant Art of Moby-Dick The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies

William V. Spanos

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

How to Write Like a Writer A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice — Thomas C. Foster

How to Write Like a Writer A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

Thomas C. Foster

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

New Directions in Print Culture Studies Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture — Jesse W. Schwartz

New Directions in Print Culture Studies Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

Jesse W. Schwartz

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Report from the Interior — Paul Auster

Report from the Interior

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Southern Bound A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart — John Sturdivant Sledge

Southern Bound A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart

John Sturdivant Sledge

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Words are My Matter Writings on Life and Books — Ursula K. Le Guin

Words are My Matter Writings on Life and Books

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature — Stacie Cassarino

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Stacie Cassarino

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

American Lit 101 From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an Essential Guide to American Writers and Works — Brianne Keith

American Lit 101 From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an Essential Guide to American Writers and Works

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

The Province of Piety Moral History in Hawthorne’s Early Tales — Michael J. Colacurcio

The Province of Piety Moral History in Hawthorne’s Early Tales

Michael J. Colacurcio

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives — Nancy Pearl

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Why Read Moby-Dick? — Nathaniel Philbrick

Why Read Moby-Dick?

Nathaniel Philbrick

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Colonial Mediascapes Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas — Matt Cohen

Colonial Mediascapes Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf

A Room of One’s Own

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Cultures of Print Essays in the History of the Book — David D. Hall

Cultures of Print Essays in the History of the Book

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition] A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from the Great Gatsby to the Hate You Give — Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition] A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from the Great Gatsby to the Hate You Give

Thomas C. Foster

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress — Jessica Hooten Wilson

Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress

Jessica Hooten Wilson

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Early African American Print Culture — Lara Langer Cohen

Early African American Print Culture

Lara Langer Cohen

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

The Republic of Imagination A Life in Books — Azar Nafisi

The Republic of Imagination A Life in Books

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

Literary Learning Teaching the English Major — Sherry Lee Linkon

Literary Learning Teaching the English Major

Sherry Lee Linkon

Themes: Books & Reading • Literary Criticism • American

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