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Collins, Paul. The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World. Bloomsbury, dist. by Macmillan. Jul. 2009. c.288p. ISBN 978-1-59691-195-6. $25. LIT Collins (Banvard's Folly; Not Even Wrong) [...]

O'Brien, Edna. Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life. Norton. Jun. 2009. c.266p, illus. ISBN 978-0-393-07011-8. $24.95. LIT O'Brien, best known for her stories and novels exploring the condition of [...]

Sensibar, Judith L. Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art. Yale Univ. Apr. 2009. c.616p, illus, maps. index. ISBN 978-0-300-11503-1. $40. LIT Sensibar (English, emerita, Arizona State Univ.; [...]

O'Driscoll, Dennis. Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. Farrar. 2008. c.560p, illus, maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-374-26983-8. $32. LIT Popular contemporary Irish poet O'Driscoll (Reality Check) began work on this [...]

Ghani, Cyrus. Shakespeare, Persia, and the East. Mage Pubs. 2008. c.208p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-933823-24-9. $30. LIT Ghani (Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah; Iran and the West), a [...]

The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner. Shoemaker & Hoard: Avalon, dist. by Publishers Group West. 2007. c.480p, ed. by Page Stegner. index. ISBN 978-1-59376-168-4. $30. LIT Page Stegner (English, emeritus, [...]

Walton, James. Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu. University College Dublin Pr. 2007. c.240p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-904558-79-8. $94.95; pap. ISBN 978-1-904558-78-1. $44.95. LIT J.S. Le [...]

Letters of E.B. White. rev. ed. Harper: HarperCollins. Dec. 2006. c.720p. ed. by Dorothy Lobrano Guth & Martha White. ISBN 0-06-075708-6. $35. LIT In the original edition of E.B. White's [...]

The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships. New York Review. 2006. c.304p. ed. by Robert B. Silvers & Barbara Epstein. ISBN 1-59017-203-5 [ISBN 978-1-59017-203-2]. $24.95. LIT Silvers and Epstein [...]

Gilliver, Peter & others. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford Univ. Jun. 2006. c.288p. illus. index. ISBN 0-19-861069-6 [ISBN 978-0-19-861069-4]. $25. LIT If you are [...]

Barker, Juliet. Wordsworth: A Life. Ecco: HarperCollins. Dec. 2005. c.576p. illus. index. ISBN 0-06-078731-7. $29.95. LIT In this in-depth biography of Wordsworth (1770-1850), originally published in the U.K. in 2000, [...]

THOMPSON, LAURA. Life in a Cold Climate: A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman. Headline, dist. by Trafalgar Square. Nov. 2004. c.432p. ISBN 0-7472-4575-4. pap. $15.95. LIT Thompson's latest work is [...]

Knopf. Feb. 2004. c.416p, photogs, filmog. maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-375-41475-4. $30. LIT Meyers, the author of several literary biographies, including those of Robert Frost Edgar Allen Poe, and George [...]

Doyle, Ursula. Love Letters of Great Women. St. Martin's. 2009. c.160p, bibliog. ISBN 978-0-312-60902-3. pap. $16.99. LIT Doyle (former deputy publisher of Picador) has followed up her Love Letters of [...]

Barnes, Nigel. A Dream Within a Dream: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe. Peter Owen, dist. by Dufour. 2009. 272p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-7206-1322-3. pap. $28.95. LIT Released in [...]

Graham, Laurie (text) & Linda Wallen (illus.). In Other Words: Tales of Paris and Language. Word Association. Jul. 2009. c.160p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 978-1-59571-370-4. pap. $12.95. LIT Graham (Rebuilding the [...]

Sontag, Susan. Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947-1963. Farrar. 2008. c.304p. ed. by David Rieff. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-374-10074-2. $24. LIT Sontag's son Rieff (A Bed for the Night), who served [...]

Greene, Graham. Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. Norton. Dec. 2008. c.480p. ed. by Richard Greene. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-393-06642-5. $35. LIT As editor Greene (Mary Leapor: A Study in [...]

Paterson, Don. Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work, and Death. Graywolf. Aug. 2008. c.160p. ISBN 978-155597-505-0. $18. LIT Award-winning Scottish poet Paterson (Orpheus; Landing Light) here compiles aphorisms [...]

Donoghue, Denis. On Eloquence. Yale Univ. 2008. 208p. index. ISBN 978-0-300-12541-2. $27.50. LIT Donoghue (English, NYU; Speaking of Beauty) has fashioned a well-written and engaging exploration of eloquence in literature. [...]

Nolan, Emer. Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce. Syracuse Univ. 2007. c.240p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3120-0. $39.95; pap. ISBN 978-0-8156-3175-0. $19.95. LIT In an engaging and [...]

The New Kings of Nonfiction. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Oct. 2007. c.464p, ed. by Ira Glass. ISBN 978-1-59448-267-0. pap. $15. LIT Host of the NPR program This American Life, Glass [...]

Lynch, Brendan. Parsons Bookshop: At the Heart of Bohemian Dublin, 1949-1989. Liffey, dist. by Dufour. May 2007. 264p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-905785-11-7. pap. $24.95. LIT Lynch (Triumph of the [...]

Hickman, Lisa C. William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers. McFarland. 2006. c.228p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7864-2599-7 [978-0-7864-2599-0]. pap. $35. LIT Memphis-based independent scholar Hickman has [...]

Doyle, John. A Great Feast of Light. Carroll & Graf. Jan. 2007. c.336p. ISBN 0-7867-1814-5 [ISBN 978-0-7867-1814-6]. pap. $15.95. AUTOBIOG Toronto Globe and Mail television critic Doyle makes the arrival [...]

Bradford, Richard. First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin. Peter Owen, dist. by Dufour. Feb. 2006. 272p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7206-1147-4. $49.95. LIT In the 1990s, the [...]

Smiley, Jane. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. Knopf. 2005. c.560p. ISBN 14000-4059-0. $26.95. LIT In her introduction, novelist Smiley (A Thousand Acres) describes feeling 'diminished inventiveness as well [...]

* Roorbach, Bill. Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey. Dial: Random. Aug. 2005. c.290p. bibliog. ISBN 0-385-33654-3. $24. LIT Since his 2000 debut, Roorbach (Summers with Juliet; The Smallest Color) has [...]

Anderson, Mark. 'Shakespeare' by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare. Gotham: Penguin Putnam. Aug. 2005. c.576p. maps. index. ISBN 1-592-40103-1. [...]

Keller, Helen. Helen Keller: Selected Writings. New York Univ. (History of Disability). Jun. 2005. c.352p. ed. by Kim E. Nielsen. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8147-5829-0. $35. AUTOBIOG Keller (1880-1968) has [...]

Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present. Continuum. 2005. c.304p. ed. by Alba Amoia & Bettina L. Knapp. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8264-1683-7. $26.95. LIT Amoia (Women on the Italian [...]

BOOKER, CHRISTOPHER. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. Continuum. Feb. 2005. c.718p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8264-5209-4. $34.95. LIT Booker, a regular contributor to the Sunday Telegraph and the [...]

FLYNN, NICK. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir. Norton. Sept. 2004. c.288p. ISBN 0-393-05139-0. $23.95. LIT Winner of Guggenheim and Winter Bynner fellowships, poet Flynn (Blind Huber) here [...]

Hunt, Leigh. The Rebellion of the Beasts; Or, the Ass Is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! Wicker Park, dist. by Academy Chicago Pubs. 2004. 168p. ISBN 0-89733-520-1. $21.95. LIT Originally [...]

Syracuse Univ. (Irish Studies). Mar. 2004. c.192p. index. ISBN 0-8156-3016-6. $45; pap. ISBN 0-8156-3041-7. $19.95. LIT This is a scholarly exploration of the writings of a group that is problematically [...]

Graywolf. 2004. c.240p. ISBN 1-55597-393-0. pap. $15. LIT This fascinating collection of essays seeks to elucidate what poet Alexander (Antebellum Dream Book) conceives as 'the black interior': 'black life and [...]

Norton. 2003. c.320p. index. ISBN 0393-31246-1. pap. $14.95. LIT As timely and insightful now as it was when published after the first Gulf conflict, this reprint of the 1993 original [...]

Yale Univ. Oct. 2003. c.240p. index. ISBN 0-300-09840-5. $26. LIT British literary critic Nuttall (Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?) has managed to invest the 'paradox of the person unfit for [...]

Dalkey Archive. (Lannan Selection Irish Literature). Jan. 2004. c.220p. ed. by John Wyse Jackson. illus. ISBN 1-56478-328-6. pap. $13.95. LIT Issued in Great Britain in 1999, this is a collection [...]

Shoemaker & Hoard: Avalon, dist. by Publishers Group West. Oct. 2003. c.224p. ISBN 1-59376-004-3. $25. LIT The critically acclaimed Berriault, whose works include The Son and Women in Their Beds, [...]

Buell, Lawrence. Emerson. Belknap: Harvard Univ. 2003. c.336p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-674-01139-2. $29.95. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. A Year with Emerson: A Daybook. Godine. 2003. c.256p. ed. by Richard Grossman. illus. [...]

Harvard Univ. (William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization). May 2003. c.144p. LC 2002032742. ISBN 0-674-00461-2. $22.95. LIT In this latest volume of the 'William E. [...]

2003 ed. Pushcart. 2003. c.612p. ed. by Bill Henderson & others. ISBN 1-888889-33-0. $35; pap. ISBN 1-888889-35-7. $16.95. LIT Having edited the Pushcart Prize since its inception in 1976, Henderson [...]