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The Language Of The Night: Essays On Fantasy And Science Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorA Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Susannah Carson · 320 pages
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans or as much devotion. So why are we so fascinated with her novels? What is it about her prose the has made Jane Austen so universally belov
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
Anne Fadiman · 272 pages
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
Nick Hornby · 176 pages
A follow-up to The Polysyllabic Spree features a collection of essays that surveys the author's stuffed bookshelves as well as the wide range of books that he purchases and reads within the confines of his busy lifestyle, in a volume that serves as a literary barometer for today's readers.
Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 304 pages
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Charles Baxter · 268 pages
What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture relentlessly insists on happy endings? In *Burning Down the House*, Baxter delves into the dramatic way that social and political circumstances influence the “urgent issues of storytelling.” Did Richard Nixon start a trend of dysfunctional narration that is now rife throughout fiction
A Place in the Country
W.G. Sebald · 208 pages
W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin · 280 pages
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith · 306 pages
A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness th
Mapping the World of Harry Potter: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Explore the Bestselling Series of All Time
Leah Wilson · 240 pages
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Holly Black, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link
Contains: Introduction by Cassandra Clare Unhomely Places by Kate Milford The Art of War by Sarah Cross Sharper Than a Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund When Laws Are Made to Be Broken by Robin Wasserman Simon Lewis: Jewish, Vampire, Hero by Michelle Hodkin Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake Asking for a Friend by Gwenda Bond (Not) Fo
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle · 352 pages
"Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading A Book Is A Sign Of Order In The World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, d
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera · 280 pages
Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera once again celebrates the art of the novel, from its birth in a spirit of humor unique to European culture and sensibility - illustrated by some wonderful examples from the work of Rabelais and Cervantes - through
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
Tim Parks · 241 pages
"Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Why should a group of aging Swedish men determine what "world" literature is best? Do books change anything? Did they use to? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I'm Reading From, the internationally acclaimed
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
Louise Gluck · 134 pages
"Proofs & Theories is a long-awaited first gathering of essays by one of this country's most brilliant poets. Like her poems, the prose of Ms. Gluck, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 for The Wild Iris, is compressed, fastidious, fierce, alert, and absolutely unconsoled." "The force of her thought is apparent everywhere in her writing and whether she is contemplating - skeptically - th
Meditations on Middle-Earth
Karen Haber · 256 pages
A collection of essays, most of them by fantasy writers, on J.R.R. Tolkien and the influence of his work on the contributors' own literary endeavors.
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Elif Batuman · 297 pages
Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors, Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence--including her own.
What Makes This Book So Great
Jo Walton · 446 pages
"As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading--about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have con
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books
Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Leigh Hunt, E.M. Forster · 96 pages
Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
James Lowder · 230 pages
"The epic game of thrones chronicled in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. In Beyond the wall, bestselling authors and acclaimed critics offer up thought-provoking essays and compelling insights..."--P.[4] of Cover.
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
Wendy Lesser · 231 pages
"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenn
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
Jorge Luis Borges · 205 pages