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"A big biography of John Campbell, the genius magazine editor who created a mass market for science fiction, couldn't be timelier.

In The Children's Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales, Dr. Hannah Blevins Harvey unpacks more than 60 of our most beloved stories, fables, fairy tales, and songs from around the world-providing you with a fascinating, in-depth view into the history, context, and deeper meaning of the tales we know and love. As you travel through the catalogs of Grimm, Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Perrault, Oscar Wilde, and so many more, you'll gain profound insights into how and why these stories came to be. Supplementing the stories and insights provided by Dr.

Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life and do so in many different ways. Building on recent trends in linguistic analysis and visual semiotics, a vibrant interdisciplinary field of inquiry called “word-and-image studies” has developed over the past few decades. Much of this new scholarship, however, has originated in the French-speaking world and thus has not been available in English – until now. Words and Images: A French Rendez-vous features six new essays translated from the French by Anthony Wall.

Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of the men who often undervalued their work as critics and essayists.

Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, this book is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist's vision, and a timely call to arms.

In this wise and revealing work of biography, reportage, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the world of George Eliot's Middlemarch, the life that the book made for her, and the many lives the novel has led since it was written. 

Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine offers a behind-the-scenes take on writing and teaches you how to become a world-class author. Drawing from her popular blog, Gail answers readers' fiction- and poetry-writing questions and dives into how to make a story come alive.

Librarian Nancy Pearl and playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped and inspired them.

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book for her eighteenth birthday. In short, honest letters, Burriesci teaches his daughter about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life.

Jeremy Dauber tells the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.