Bartleby, The Scrivener

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. At the start of his story the lawyer already employs...

Contributions To All The Year Round

All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United...

What My Mother And I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence

*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 Selection by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, and The Week* Fifteen brilliant writers explore how what we don’t talk about...

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

"Rachel Kushner narrates these essays precisely and warmly. Her voice, assured and practiced, moves the text along. An admired novelist, she's a fine storyteller who uses...

Pensamentos De Paz Durante Um Ataque Aéreo

Em "Pensamentos de paz durante um ataque aéreo", Virginia Woolf vai nos conduzindo na busca por nossa serenidade perdida. Como ter um pensamento de paz enquanto bombas caem ao...

Narrative, Genre And Ideology In Video Games: An Analysis Of Gender Roles And Structures Of Power

This book sheds light on gender politics and structures of power that can be found in new media, as a single structure that can be found in any game. This book brings to the...

On Cats

A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers.“The cat is the beautiful devil.”Felines touched...

The Art of Memoir

In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black-belt...

Byline: Ernest Hemingway

Across three continents and four decades...here is Hemingway -- the adventurer, the reporter, the man! More intimately than all his fiction, Hemingway the reporter reveals...

Reading Like a Writer

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of...

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