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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

by Jennifer Horne

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361365

Pub Date: January 2024

Format: Paperback

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own

Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years

Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years

by Ery Shin

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817361242

Pub Date: December 2023

Format: Paperback

Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions

Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance

Edited by Brian Unger

by Philip Whalen

Price: $44.95

ISBN: 9780817360139

Pub Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest

To Do Justice

The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

by Randall C. Jimerson

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817321239

Pub Date: September 2022

Format: Hardcover

Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions

Maurice Samuel

Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian

by Alan T. Levenson

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817321307

Pub Date: August 2022

Format: Hardcover

An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century

Stephen Crane Remembered

Stephen Crane Remembered

Edited by Paul Sorrentino

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817360627

Pub Date: July 2022

Format: Paperback

Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology

by Suzanne Kesler Rumsey

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817320904

Pub Date: May 2021

Format: Hardcover

An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors

Mark Twain

The Complete Interviews

Edited by Gary Scharnhorst

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817359959

Pub Date: May 2020

Format: Paperback

The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection

André Michaux in North America

André Michaux in North America

Journals and Letters, 1785–1797

by André Michaux

Edited by Charlie Williams, Eliane M. Norman and Walter K. Taylor

Translated by Eliane M. Norman

Foreword by James E. McClellan

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817320300

Pub Date: March 2020

Format: Hardcover

Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists

Mark Twain, the World, and Me

Mark Twain, the World, and Me

"Following the Equator," Then and Now

by Susan K. Harris

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817359676

Pub Date: March 2020

Format: Paperback

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

A scholar accompanies Twain on his journey around the world

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