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"Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of public life. Here is the William Styron unafraid to peer into the darkest corners of the 20th century or to take on the complex racial legacy of the United States. But here too is Styron writing about his daily walk with his dog, musing on the Modern Library's "100 Greatest Books," and offering personal...

A selection of forty-four lyrics and eight substantial essays from the author's complete works. Ransom, long one of America's eminent critics, writes perceptively of literature and politics in these essays.

The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential...

'Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become, ' Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is 'a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.' Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale...

"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...

"Best of the small presses." A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers. Included are Susan Onthank Mates' Theng, on refugees from Indochina, Joseph Novakovich's Honey in the Carcase, on the war in Yugoslavia, and Charles D'Ambrosio's Jacinta, on rural Oregon.

The eighteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.

In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays about color and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers - some famous, many just discovered - give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century. In historical context, with...

"All writers in this volume are Black and proud of their Blackness. But each is a distinctly individual talent, giving voice to his or her Black experience in a profoundly personal and moving way. Here are stories, poems, and essays by some of the most acclaimed Black writers of today. Here are other, equally remarkable creations by Black writers who are making their first appearance in print, or have yet to reach a wide audience ... There is anger...

"Let Me Tell You Where I've Been is the first anthology of writing by women of the Iranian diaspora. Featuring over one hundred selections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction-two-thirds of which have never been published before-from over fifty contributors, this anthology explores through literature the influences of history, revolution, war, exile, and immigration. Book jacket."--Jacket.