NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES  With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding...

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein | Conversation StartersSegregation in America has contributed to so much social strife. Richard Rothstein makes extraordinary revelations about how this came to be and how government policies promoted the segregation that continue to this day. With meticulous research and strong analyses, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America chronicles the untold story. Its well-researched...

"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."-Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing."-San Francisco Chronicle At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Stephanie Dray's and Laura Kamoie's America's First Daughter by Instaread Preview: America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha Patsy" Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Based on Jefferson's letters and actual historical events, the novel imagines Patsy's struggles to remain loyal to her father while following her own heart during America's turbulent post-Revolutionary...

Who is John Galt? It is the question that has intrigued readers since Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957, when author Ayn Rand revealed her highly anticipated final novel. This question and others have driven scientist Christiane Munkholm to dig deeper into the pages of this masterpiece and unearth a metaphor-a buried equation-crucial to solving one of the greatest literary mysteries of all time. In Atlas Decrypted, Christiane takes you on a journey...

We all want to know how novels end and to feel that they satisfy what we want in a good story. CLOSURE IN THE NOVEL will help you understand and appreciate why artists choose to conclude their novels as they do. It will give you a new appreciation for sequels, epilogues, back-stories, and the way that endings can complete a novel's form, sometimes at the expense of "fudging" some of what the story has been telling us all along. This is a book for...

In this book, in addition to the in-depth studies in theoretical cases of literature works from Albanian literature, the reader comes across formative and informational articles of value regarding authors, works, figures and personalities of the Albanian world and diaspora.

An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of books… Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the other, Merilyn Simonds - author, literary maven, and early adopter - asks herself: what is lost and what is gained as paper turns to pixel? Gutenberg's...

There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it's hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Each chapter presents an author, explains why you might want to try them, and lays out a 3- or 4-book reading sequence designed to help you experience fully what they have...

Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures is James Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric-displaced and marginalized, he argues, by the allegedly disinterested study of aesthetic texts in the college English department. Berlin sees rhetoric as offering a unique perspective on the current disciplinary crisis,...