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This collection of essays provides commentary on more than 20 collections of poetry, nine novels, and many works of theo......more
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BREATHE is the story of a teenage boy s struggle to keep his sexuality a secret from his devout religious family and hom......more
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Ferocious stories about family, abandonment, and reunion....more
A story of love and loss, Chasing Jordan is a quiet novel with a thunderclap at its heart. With this first novel, Ms. Bo......more
This is a witty and stylish assessment of the work of two icons of cultural criticism: Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael Tho......more
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"[One of] the reigning mother superiors of the crowd [is] Bee Lavender." --Time Magazine Diagnosed with cancer at age tw......more
The writings collected here all testify to the complexity of Gunnars s literary vision as much as they testify to the sh......more
Ah to be the one for whom the love poems in this sexy, brainy, elegant book were written. --Linda Gregerson The Coronary......more
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The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat ......more
France has long captured the imagination of Americans. For some women, a love of France and all things French started wh......more
In this engaging study, the author compares Mary Oliver’s poetry and traditional religious language and provides a fresh......more
--Winner of the James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award "Wareham’s simple, steady prose and aversion to glass-sha......more
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The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen s first novel, more than forty years after its original appe......more
MacEwen sets out to write a deeply serious novel that also functions as entertaining historical fiction. The novel s her......more
What you hold in your hand is a love story in plain verse; love not merely between a man and a woman but of a place and ......more
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A landmark literary and historical rediscovery--a rare memoir of Japanese/American women’s experience before WWII....more
Winner of the 3rd Annual Miguel Mármol Prize from Curbstone Press, Mary Helen Lagasse’s The Fifth Sun is an inspiring st......more
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In Midnight in the Guest Room Jan Bailey locates the "bliss of the routine" experiences in women’s lives--childhood, lov......more
This debut collection bears witness to the compassion of nurses, the hardships of injury and illness, and the solitude b......more
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This anthology of literary fiction, poems, and essays by women runners captures the essence of running, and the many hop......more
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments "A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writer......more
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Hestia lives an emotionally precarious existence. At 30 she has lived with boyfriends but never slept with any man. Wear......more
"Allusions to the story of Sylvia Plath and her husband, poet Ted Hughes, combine with details from the Gothic novel tra......more
After her debut with the widely praised stories in Blood and Milk, Sharon Solwitz offers us her first, darkly radiant, f......more
This large, bilingual collection contains work from more than 20 years of writing, including a small -selection of new w......more
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Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. Feminist Studies. Pioneering novelist and short-story writer Nicholasa Mohr bro......more
This collection features the writing of women from places as diverse as Slovakia and Portugal, India and Uruguay, Korea ......more
Engaging memoir about growing up in rural Southern California and identifying as a "Californian" for life....more
"These beautiful stories freeze the sweep of the hands of the clock, they stop the beat of your heart, with the precisio......more
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Many of the poems in Naming the Stars are about the difficulty of balancing the desires of one self with those of anothe......more
A work of understated elegance and cumulative power, this novel eases readers into a drama unfolding within a Catholic f......more
In this quiet, clear-eyed collection, Townsend meditates on loss--childhood bereavement, depression, divorce--to arrive ......more
No one is better than Jonis Agee at capturing the bone-deep desire and big-eyed longing of a hardscrabble, small-town li......more
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Poetic Prose. Lesbian Erotica. Lesbian Identity. In Spanish and English on inverted pages. This philosophical exploratio......more
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New edition of "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling toward womanhood."...more
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The letters between a young Dutch woman and a Swiss soldier....more
Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the......more
This is an excellent guide to Kate Atkinson s debut novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis......more
These essays trace a distinguished writer’s engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poe......more
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This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Ed......more
What is it that shocks newcomers to the works of Flannery O Connor and what makes them return? The perfection of her lan......more
In this brilliant, impassioned and controversial book, New Yorker critic Joan Acocella argues that twentieth-century lit......more
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The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and ......more
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