|  |  Tender Buttons
by Gertrude Stein
This 1915 work exhibits the distinct prose style and thought-provoking experimental techniques for which its author is famous. One of Stein's most accessible and influential works.
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 How to Write
by Gertrude Stein
Not so much a "how-to" guide as an inspirational journey into the craft of writing by one of the 20th-century's most influential and unconventional literary figures. New preface and introduction by Patricia Meyerowitz.
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| |  Great Writers on the Art of Fiction: From Mark Twain to Joyce Carol Oates
by James Daley
An indispensable source of advice and inspiration, this anthology features essays by Henry James, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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 Intimate Journals
by Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden
Collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy.
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| |  Crome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley
A comical cast of characters has gathered for a social outing at Henry Wimbush's estate. Among the guests are a prolific writer; an idealist with plans for a "Rational State"; and a sensitive poet.
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 The Dream Life of Balso Snell
by Nathanael West
In this 1931 Dada-inspired work, the first novel of the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, the eponymous anti-hero climbs inside a Trojan Horse to find the dark side of the American dream.
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| |  Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein
Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.
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 Picasso
by Gertrude Stein
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
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