Literary Life: A Second Memoir 2009030724, 9781439159934, 9781451606591, 1439159939

"I had expected to be thrilled when I received my first copy of my first book, but when I opened the package and he

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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
2009030724, 9781439159934, 9781451606591, 1439159939

An inspiring and brilliantly observed memoir in the manner of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Mitch Al

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KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for

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The embattled nonpareil of Canadian fiction. The Argus-eyed editor. The magisterial prose stylist and indefatigable corr

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A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entir

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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journ

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Review "Ebert is best known, of course, as the nation's most prominent film critic; but in recent years he

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Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Braz

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As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many

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