Literary Washington
Author: David Cutler
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference for all things literary in the nation's capital.
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Author: David Cutler
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference for all things literary in the nation's capital.
Author: Ryan Boudinot
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1570619875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation's most literary cities.
Author: Caroline Bock
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781941551257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of new fiction and poetry from the DC-MVA region
Author: Patrick Allen
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1595341250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless stories to be told. From the early swamp days to the Civil War, the "gilded age" to the New Deal and McCarthy eras, as the center of world power to its underlying multicultural social fabric, Washington is a writer's town. While this is surprising to some, it is not news to the close observer. Alan Cheuse, in his foreword to Literary Washington, D.C. comments: "Part of this peculiar city's sense of place is that it serves as a capital for people who have no permanent sense of place. . . . War has brought us here, peace has brought us here, love has kept us here, and love or loss of love will give some of us reason to leave again. Which makes Washington, D.C. exactly like most other places in the rest of the country and the rest of the world-only more so." In fact, D.C. has been a magnet for great writers for centuries. Including novelists, poets, journalists, essayists, and politicians and patriots, finally, in Literary Washington D.C., the story of the capital of world power is finally told.
Author: Christopher Sten
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780820338361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling portrait of Washington, D.C. through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.
Author: Mary Washington
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0231152701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.
Author: C. D. Rose
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 161219379X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.
Author: Edith Nalle Schafer
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2007-11-26
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 1557090815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this walking tour of the city's literary history, Schafer explores Washington's culture, authors, bookstores, colleges, and literary meeting places.
Author: E. B. White
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2011-03-30
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 1590174798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
Published: 1822
Total Pages: 402
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