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It Must've Been Something I Ate
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 17.00In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl?into each other-- to produce... more...
Hooking Up
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring... more...
If You Want to Write
Graywolf Press 2010; US$ 13.99THE GRAYWOLF BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORM But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good and the grand, the true and the... more...
No Passion Spent
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 14.57This is an extraordinary collection of essays by one of this country's most exciting and dramatic thinkers.The essays span a considerable time. But they turn on a central, compelling theme. What is meant by reading a serious text at a time when theories of language and literature question the very possibility of any agreed meaning, and at a time when... more...
John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
Oxford University Press, UK 1989; US$ 8.99Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. - ;Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as... more...
Black Cat Bone
Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 13.35John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems that recognise 'we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us';... more...
Gate of the Sun
Archipelago Books 2006; US$ 26.00Deeply human epic of the Palestinian struggle. A realigned "1001 Nights." more...
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
Quercus Publishing 2012; US$ 16.99This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his many thousands of books, as well as... more...
Country Girl
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 13.11I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have... more...
Rhetoric and Composition
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 25.00An accessible introduction to teaching and studying rhetoric and composition. more...









