Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
James Lowder, R A Salvatore (eds)
BenBella Books, PB, 9781936661749
In May 2011, HBO's hit series A Game of Thrones introduced TV viewers to the perilous, richly drawn high-fantasy world of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. But even before A Game of Thrones' debut, the series already had more than 6 million copies in print in the US and had sold more than 16 million worldwide. For ... More/Buy
A New Literary History of America
Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors (eds)
Belknap, PB, 9780674064102
From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what ‘Made in America’ means. T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on ... More/Buy
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 4ed
Roland Greene et al
Princeton University Press, PB, 9780691154916
Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first ... More/Buy
Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central Amercia, 1954-1983
Bernard Diederich
Peter Owen Publishers, HB, 9780720614886
In 1965, Graham Greene joined journalist Bernard Diederich in the Dominican Republic to embark on a tour of its border with Haiti, then ruled by 'Papa Doc' Duvalier. They were accompanied by an activist priest, Jean-Claude Bajeux. The famous novelist was 61 and depressed having struggled to finish A Burnt-Out Case and was being plagued by religious doubt; Bajeux, meanwhile, had ... More/Buy
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Jonathan Gottschalls
Houghton Mifflin, HB, 9780547391403
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. In this delightful book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology & evolutionary biology, he tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal. Did you ... More/Buy
The Western Lit Survival Kit: How to Read the Classics Without Fear
Sandra Newman
Penguin, PB, 9780141044521
There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre' in it? What does postmodernism mean? Can I get away with just reading the introduction? ... More/Buy