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Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)

Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee · back to the book

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Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life

Annie Spence · 282 pages

If you love to read, and presumably you do since you've picked up this book, you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it's clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 45

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Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

Michel Houellebecq, Bernard-Henri Levy · 309 pages

In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. In their inimitably confrontational correspondence, they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame and even - naturally - themselves. This title features their letters.

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The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell

George Orwell · 555 pages

In Front of Your Nose features Orwell's final writings, including extracts from his manuscript notebook, as well as details of his remarriage and adoption of a son, notes on the writing and publication of Nineteen Eighty-four, as well as reviews of books by Jean-Paul Sartre and Graham Greene, an examination of politics and literature in Gulliver's Travels, and the hidden meanings of "nonsense poet

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages

An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “

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Gone with the Wind Letters

Margaret Mitchell · 480 pages

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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 66 pages

Receiving a letter from a friend asking her how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist, Adichie responded with fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Her suggestions ranged from options for non-stereotyped toy options, to debunking myths that women are somehow biologically programmed to be in the kitchen instead of having a career. Adichie's lette

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This Modern Love

Will Darbyshire · 224 pages

This Modern Love is a unique crowd-sourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire. Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an intimate conversation with his online audience. Posting a series of questions, Will asked his followers to share their innermost thoughts about their relationship experi

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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien · 463 pages

Selected letters discuss his books, their meanings, his interests and also reveal his view of the world.

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Grumbles from the Grave

Robert A. Heinlein · 310 pages

"A Del Rey book." A collection of letters to and from the author beginning in 1939 through his many years of fiction writing.

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Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · 109 pages

Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123).

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Dear Me: A Letter To My Sixteen Year Old Self

Joseph Galliano · 160 pages

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A Life in Letters

John Steinbeck · 908 pages

"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and...arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book ReviewFor John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his craft.

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Autumn

Karl Ove Knausgard · 224 pages

The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.

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Selected Letters, 1940-1956

Jack Kerouac · 656 pages

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Letters to a Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens · 141 pages

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The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr · 256 pages

Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.

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Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

Lynne Sharon Schwartz · 123 pages

Schwartz, an author, offers insight into why we read and how what we read shapes us.

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Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Elena Ferrante · 392 pages

"This book invites readers into Elena Ferrantes workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embo

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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh · 196 pages

"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature

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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Margaret Atwood · 230 pages

Investigates the timely subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.

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