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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

           
          Sustaining Air

          Sustaining Air

          The Life of Larry Eigner

          by Jennifer Bartlett

          Contributions by George Hart

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817360818

          Pub Date: July 2023

          Format: Paperback

          The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

           
          To Do Justice

          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

          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

          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
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