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Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attention of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
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xv, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"The author traces the significant yet underappreciated historical role that mass-market paperbacks of Jane Austen's books have played in making her the celebrated author she is today. This is a work of bibliography and of literary history. The author has amassed a large collection of rare and forgotten Austen volumes with rich, colorful, and sometimes gaudy covers that are featured, selectively, as figures in the book"--
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249 pages ; 24 cm
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"At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with...
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"Spud Johnson and Laughing Horse" is a portrait of the soul of a generation of artists and writers, the story of the men and women who made New Mexico a center of regional American literature, criticism and visual arts in the 1920s and 30s. Sharyn Udall's lively account of the quirky editor, poet, journalist, diarist and printer Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson focuses especially on brilliant and diverse artists- D. H. Lawrence, Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge...
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161 pages ; 28 cm
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"Back in print after over a decade, see how Pagan Kennedy's career got started in this hilarious autobiography from the pioneer of the 90's 'zine movement, and the current New York Times design columnist. A young woman named Pagan, just graduated from a writing program at a very prestigious university, is left with one burning question--now what? She then takes an unusual step by deciding to invent her new self--the one the public will know--by creating...
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