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The 64 Sonnets John Keats Introduction by Edward Hirsch Trade Paper, 145 pp., $9.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $12.00. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $9.00 John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so!) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published in a separate edition, are all sixty-four sonnets, the first written when Keats . . . [read more]
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon Introduction by Jerry Weinberger Trade Paper, 263 pp., $13.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $17.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $13.00 Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon set . . . [read more]
Boston Boy Nat Hentoff Trade Paper, 212 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and is befriended by . . . [read more]
Cries in the New Wilderness Mikhail N. Epstein Translated from the Russian by Eve Adler Also available in hardcover Trade Paper, 236 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $15.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $12.00 Inside the disintegrating Soviet Union, Raisa Omarovna Gibaydulina, a professor of scientific atheism at the Moscow Institute of Atheism, compiles a selection of excerpts from the articles, sermons, manifestos, and other writings by members of banned religious sects. Copies of this classified reference manual, The New . . . [read more]
The Education of T.C. MITS Lillian Lieber Introduction by Barry Mazur Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber Trade Paper, 229 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $11.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 First published in 1942, this whimsical exploration of how to think in a mathematical mood continues to delight math-lovers of all ages. Do you know that two times two is not always four; that the sum of the angles in a triangle does not always equal 180°; that sometimes it is possible to draw two parallel . . . [read more]
Feeling Our Feelings Eva Brann Trade Paper, 530 pp., $28.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $35.00. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $28.00 In Feeling Our Feelings, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, and also includes a chapter on cont . . . [read more]
The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist Thomas McCormack Trade Paper, 167 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $12.00 Drawing upon 28 years of experience as the CEO and Editorial Director of St. Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack gives practical guidance about how to plan, write, and revise a novel. A standard reference for editors since its first publication in 1988, The Fiction Editor has also become popular with writers beca . . . [read more]
For Solo Violin Aldo Zargani Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss Trade Paper, 326 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $15.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938–45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic intensity as he crosscuts from the blood-red stone spires of Basel, . . . [read more]
Friend of Mankind & Other Stories Julian Mazor Hardcover, 279 pp., $16.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $19.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $16.00 These stories, ten in all, take place in Ireland, New York City and Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Texas, and Colorado. The characters represent the various stages of man—from boyhood and youth to the first precincts of old age. John Lionel, who appeared in four stories collected in Julian Mazor's earlier volume . . . [read more]
An Invisible Country Stephan Wackwitz Translated from the German by Stephen Lehmann Foreword by Wendy Lesser Hardcover, 254 pp., $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $24.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 Stephan Wackwitz's family "never spoke about the fact that the scene of their childhood and the site of the century's greatest crime were separated by nothing more than a longish walk and barely a decade." With insight and wit, Wackwitz breaks this silence in An Invisible Country, a learned meditatio . . . [read more]
Matthew Anne Crosby Hardcover, 354 pp., $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $24.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 A mother's memoir celebrates the joys and demands of raising a Down syndrome child. From the moment she held him in her arms, Anne Crosby had deep fears for her newborn son. Although the staff at the hospital in London paid no attention to her concerns, her instincts were correct: Matthew had Down synd . . . [read more]
Rocky Stories Michael Vitez Photographs by Tom Gralish Foreword by Sylvester Stallone Oversized Paperback, 129 pp. 100 full color photographs, $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $22.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish of the Philadelphia Inquirer spent a year visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art to capture the stories of "Rocky runners," who come from all over the world to run up America's most famous steps—just as Sylvester Stallone did in Rockyread more]
The Telescope in the Parlor James McConkey Trade Paper, 196 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 In this collection of essays, James McConkey—novelist, professor, and memoirist—writes about the authors and experiences that have meant the most to him. In "Three Autobiographical Essays" and "A Story for a Child," McConkey poignantly recalls events of courting and family life that rema . . . [read more]
To a Distant Island James McConkey Introduction by Jay Parini Trade Paper, 203 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 In 1890 Anton Chekhov—thirty years old and already a famous writer—left his home and family in Moscow to travel 6,500 miles across Russia, over frozen land and sea, by train, ferry, and troika, to visit the island of Sakhalin, a penal colony off the coast of Siberia. What was Chekhov seeking by un . . . [read more]
The Tree of Life Hugh Nissenson Introduction by Margo Jefferson Trade Paper, 189 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. SALE PRICE $10.00 Nominated for The National Book Award and The Pen Faulkner Award Read Alan Berger's essay on Nissenson's work. From Margo Jefferson�s Introduction: "A beautifully paced book . . . [it] allows the shocks and resonanc . . . [read more]
Who Loves You Like This Edith Bruck Translated from the Italian by Thomas Kelso Trade Paper, 135 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $12.00 View the curriculum guide here. "Edith Bruck tells the story of the 'Lager' with the inherent strength of a wounded animal and in confronting the unbearable sadness of it closes the account and does not surrender to the void. . . Unforgett . . . [read more]
Writers on the Air Donna Seaman Hardcover, 467 pp., $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $24.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 Writers on the Air brings to print for the first time Donna Seaman's vibrant author interviews from her Chicago-based radio program, Open Books. In these conversations, authors discuss their inspirations, their favorite books, their working and research habits. Seaman also connects the author's books with othe . . . [read more]