Literature
Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin assembles interviews with the renowned science-fiction and fantasy author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence ...
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright
After the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris.
“I've got to help him,” she said. “You see, we are both members of a minority ...
Faulkner and Idealism
The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of international scholarship concerning the works of William Faulkner. They reflect particularly the distinctive and somewhat varying views that American ...
Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War
This groundbreaking analysis of Vietnam War fiction, poetry, and drama offers far-ranging implications for studies in cultural criticism of that era. It explodes cherished myths and offers an alternative ...
Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
In 1971, the outlandish originator of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) commandeered the international literary limelight with his best-selling, comic masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las ...
Toni Morrison
As a chronicler of the African American experience in fiction and as an incisive cultural commentator in her essays and lectures, Toni Morrison (b. 1931) is regarded as one of the nation's most distinguished ...
Growing Up in Mississippi
With contributions from Elizabeth Aydelott, Fred Banks, Jimmy Buffett, Edward Cohen, Maggie Wade Dixon, Ellen Douglas, W. Ralph Eubanks, Richard Ford, Gwendolyn Gong, Carolyn Haines, Lorian Hemingway, ...
Multicultural American Literature
In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jessica Hagedorn are among the notable ...
What Moves at the Margin
What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison ...
The Big Ballad Jamboree
Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel.
He set his story—the romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk singer ...