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Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
During their trail ride on all-terrain vehicles, Hot Rod Hamster and his friends stop to help Grandpa Dog and two puppies, whose vehicle has tipped over and gotten stuck in the mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront...
91) A perfect day
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For writer Robert Harlan, life is a dream come true. His first novel has just hit the best-seller lists and he is suddenly thrust into the limelight. But as success consumes him, Robert's family life crumbles. It takes the sobering prophecy of a mysterious stranger for Robert to realize what is most important. Now he must find his way back to the wife and daughter he left behind.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir "Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace."
95) Heart beat
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Part ode to the Beat Generation, part domestic comedy, this film, based on the memoirs of Carolyn Cassady, tells of her life with Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac.
96) Rebel in the rye
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Biography of J.D. Salinger, the author of "The catcher in the rye."