Essays & Correspondence

Palimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM, available for presale in Canada and t...

Pt. I Influences On Malthus -- [divine Mandates For Humanity] / King James Bible -- From Concerning The Causes Of The Greatness And Magnificence Of Cities (...

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Is There A Song That Changed Your Life? Npr's Music Authority Bob Boilen Posed That Question To Some Of Today's Best-loved Musical Legends And Rising Stars....

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the ye...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world, neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, effecting even those who don...

Collects Forty Short Stories Published Between 1915 And 2015, From Writers That Include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, And Alice Munro That Exemplify Their ...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated ...

The First Volume Encompasses His Youth, His Experience In World War I, And His Arrival In Paris. The Letters Reveal A More Complex Person Than Hemingway's T...

what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Playe...

Letters of Noteis a collection of over one hundred of the world's mostentertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website...

An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 A Country Living Best Book of Fall 2021 From the author of the bestselling #ReadWithJenna/TODAY Show book club ...

sifting Carefully Through Reports From Newspapers, Magazines, Personal Memoirs, And Letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 Brings Readers More Of The Best First...

warrior Of The Light: A Manual Is An Inspirational Companion To the Alchemist, An International Bestseller That Has Beguiled Millions Of Readers Around The...

V. 1.the Letters Of Samuel Beckett Offers For The First Time A Comprehensive Range Of Letters Of One Of The Greatest Literary Figures Of The Twentieth Centu...

We live in a traumatic age. Or, perhaps, we should say that trauma appears fundamental to human existence. Over the past few years, especially, we have beco...

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrume...

mark Twain's Skeptical Assessment Of Free Will, And Determinism, Religious Belief, And The Nature Of Humanity. He Put Off Publishing It For 25 Years, And Th...

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve ...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take N...