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| 2007 | The Rest Is Noise | Alex Ross |
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Alex Ross (born 1968) is an American music critic. He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and published a critically acclaimed book on 20th-century classical music in 2007, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth...
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| 2007 | Once Upon a Quinceanera | Julia Álvarez |
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political...
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| 2007 | Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints | Joan Acocella |
Joan B. Acocella (née Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is the dance critic for The New Yorker. She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology.
Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of...
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| 2007 | The Terror Dream | Susan Faludi |
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Susan C. Faludi (born April 18, 1959(1959-04-18)) is an American journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize...
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| 2007 | Coltrane: The Story of a Sound | Ben Ratliff | ||||
| 2008 | Orpheus in the Bronx | Reginald Shepherd |
Reginald Shepherd (April 10, 1963-September 10, 2008) was an American poet and born in New York City and raised there in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Penascola, Florida, in 2008.
Shepherd graduated from Bennington College in 1988, and received...
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| 2008 | Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter | Seth Lerer |
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Professor Seth Lerer (1955 -) is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He had previously held the Avalon Foundation Professorship in Humanities at Stanford University....
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| 2008 | The Men in My Life. | Vivian Gornick |
Vivian Gornick (ca. 1935- ) is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...
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| 2008 | Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard | Richard Brody | ||||
| 2008 | Maimonides | Joel L. Kraemer | ||||
| 2006 | Everything That Rises | Lawrence Weschler |
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Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.
A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981 - 2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his...
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| 2006 | While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within | Bruce Bawer |
Bruce Bawer (born October 31, 1956 in New York City) is an American literary critic, writer and poet.
Bawer's works have appeared in journals such as The New Republic, The Nation, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, The American...
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| 2006 | Follies of the Wise | Frederick C. Crews |
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Frederick Campbell Crews (born 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an award-winning American essayist, literary critic, author, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He received popular attention for The Pooh...
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| 2006 | Breaking the Spell | Daniel Dennett |
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Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American philosopher whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary...
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| 2006 | On Looking: Essays | Lia Purpura |
Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964 Mineola, New York) is American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of three collections of poems (King Baby, Stone Sky Lifting, The Brighter the Veil), two collections of essays (On Looking and Increase)...
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| 2008 | Ida: A Sword Among Lions | Paula Giddings |
Paula Giddings (1947 in Yonkers, New York –) is a writer and an African-American historian. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America and In Search of Sisterhood. She is a professor of African...
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| 2008 | The Bin Ladens | Steve Coll |
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Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958 in Washington, D.C. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently president and CEO of the New America Foundation. Prior to assuming that post on September 17, 2007, Coll was a staff...
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| 2008 | The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul | Patrick French |
Patrick French (born 1966) is an award-winning English writer and historian, based in London. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature.
French is the author of four books which include...
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| 2008 | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | Annette Gordon-Reed |
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Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958 in Conroe, Texas) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and law professor. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is now the Wallace Stevens professor of law at...
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| 2008 | White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson | Brenda Wineapple |
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Brenda Wineapple is an award winning author.
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| 2003 | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West | Rebecca Solnit |
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Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is a writer/essayist from San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.
Because she realized she was a "loser" in middle school and did not want to go through...
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| 2003 | Gritos | Dagoberto Gilb |
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Dagoberto Gilb is an American writer born in Los Angeles, California, whose reputation, after years between L.A. and Texas, is as one of the leading voices from the American Southwest.
Gilb was born in Los Angeles. He attended the University of...
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| 2003 | 31 Songs | Nick Hornby |
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Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sports, and the both aimless and...
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| 2003 | Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling | Ross King |
Ross King (born July 16, 1962) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best...
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| 2003 | Regarding the Pain of Others | Susan Sontag |
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Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American author, literary theorist, and political activist.
Sontag, born Susan Rosenblatt, was born in New York City to Jack Rosenblatt and Mildred Jacobsen, both Jewish Americans. Her...
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| 2004 | Where You're at | Patrick Neate |
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Patrick Neate (born 1970) is a British novelist, journalist, playwright, and award-winning podcaster.
Born and raised as a Roman Catholic in South London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge University. He spent a Gap year in Zimbabwe...
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| 2004 | /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000d7e975c | Richard Howard |
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Richard Howard (born October 13, 1929) is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he...
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| 2004 | Strangers | Graham Robb |
Graham Macdonald Robb (born June 02, 1958) is a British author.
Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He earned a PhD in French literature at...
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| 2004 | Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me | Craig Seligman | ||||
| 2004 | The Irresponsible Self | James Wood |
The Reverend James Wood was the editor of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. According to the title page of the encyclopedia, Wood was also the editor of "Nuttall's Standard Dictionary" and the compiler of a "Dictionary of Quotations".
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| 2005 | The Undiscovered Country | William Logan |
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William Logan (born 1950 Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, critic and scholar.
He was born to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his life-partner, the poet and artist,...
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| 2005 | Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-millennial South | Hal Crowther |
Hal Crowther (born in 1945) is an award-winning American journalist and essayist.
His essays have been published in many anthologies, including Novello: Ten Years of Great American Writing (2000). "Dealer's Choice," Crowther's column on southern...
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| 2005 | Unnatural Wonders | Arthur Danto |
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Arthur Coleman Danto (born 1924) is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy. He is best known as the influential, long-time art critic for the Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he has...
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| 2005 | Still Looking | John Updike |
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
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| 2005 | What Happened Here | Eliot Weinberger |
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Eliot Weinberger (born 6 February 1949) is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages. Collections of his essays have most recently...
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| 2000 | Quarrel & quandary | Cynthia Ozick |
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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Ozick was born in New York City. She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she...
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| 2000 | From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life | Jacques Barzun |
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Jacques Martin Barzun (born November 30, 1907) is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture.
Barzun was born in Créteil, France, to Henri-Martin and Anna-Rose Barzun. He spent his childhood in Paris and Grenoble. His father was a member...
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| 2000 | Passionate Minds | Claudia Roth Pierpont |
Claudia Roth Pierpont has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004. Her subjects include Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.
A...
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| 2000 | /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000cbe40bd | Charles Rosen |
Charles Rosen (born May 5, 1927) is an American pianist and author on music.
In his youth he studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal. Rosenthal, born in 1862, had been a student of Franz Liszt. Rosenthal's memories of the 19th century in classical music...
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| 2000 | poetry of two minds | Sherod Santos |
Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948 Greenville, South Carolina) is an American poet, essayist and professor. His most recent poetry collection is forthcoming, The Intricated Soul: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2010). His work has appeared in...
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| 2001 | The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 | Martin Amis |
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Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, the author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature, including Money (1986) and London Fields (1989). He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing...
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| 2001 | Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books | H.J. Jackson | ||||
| 2001 | De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong | William De Witt Snodgrass |
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William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
William De Witt Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh and...
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| 2001 | As Eve said to the serpent | Rebecca Solnit |
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Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is a writer/essayist from San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.
Because she realized she was a "loser" in middle school and did not want to go through...
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| 2001 | /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000cb57b05 | Joy Williams |
Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American author of fiction.
Williams is the author of four novels. Her first, State of Grace (1973), was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Quick and the Dead (2000...
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| 2002 | Test of Time | William H. Gass |
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William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of...
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| 2002 | Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color | Philip Ball |
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal Nature for over 10 years.
Ball's 2004 book Critical Mass: How One...
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| 2002 | Old man Goya | Julia Blackburn |
Julia Blackburn (1948 - ) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric.
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| 2002 | /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000d41ac86 | Christopher Ricks |
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks (born 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (U.S.) and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and...
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| 2002 | /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000c71df3d | Charles Rosen |
Charles Rosen (born May 5, 1927) is an American pianist and author on music.
In his youth he studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal. Rosenthal, born in 1862, had been a student of Franz Liszt. Rosenthal's memories of the 19th century in classical music...
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| 1997 | Making Waves | Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβarɣas ˈʎosa]) (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one...
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| 1997 | The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century | John Brewer | ||||
| 1997 | end of the novel of love | Vivian Gornick |
Vivian Gornick (ca. 1935- ) is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...
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| 1997 | God and the American Writer | Alfred Kazin |
Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America.
Kazin is regarded as one of "The New York Intellectuals", and like...
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| 1997 | The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets | Helen Vendler |
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Helen Hennessy Vendler (born 1933) is a leading American critic of poetry.
Vendler has written books on W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats and Seamus Heaney. She is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she...
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| 1998 | Visions of jazz | Gary Giddins |
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Gary Giddins (born March 21, 1948) is an American jazz critic, author, and director, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970. After...
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| 1998 | Out of sheer rage | Geoff Dyer |
Geoff Dyer (born June 5, 1958) is a British author. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he lives in London. He is best known as the author of But Beautiful, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been called (by Keith Jarrett, for...
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| 1998 | Hip hop America | Nelson George |
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Nelson George (born September 1, 1957) is an African American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
He attended St. John's University, after...
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| 1998 | Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human | Harold Bloom |
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Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial...
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| 1998 | The Sounds of Poetry | Robert Pinsky |
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Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of...
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