Literary
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Alfabet/Alphabeta memoir of a first language |
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer’s transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate … | Sadiqa de Meijer | 160 | 2020 | View |
Imagined TruthsMyths from a Draft-Dodging Poet |
Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in … | Richard Lemm | 272 | 2021 | View |
NEW! My Mother, My Translator |
In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his … | Jaspreet Singh | 280 | 2021 | View |
NEW! RoomsWomen, Writing, Woolf |
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind … | Sina Queyras | 176 | 2022 | View |
The Wheel of ThingsA Biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Lucy Maud Montgomery is Canada’s best-known writer of children’s fiction. Anne of Green Gables — in print, film, television or on stage — captures people’s imaginations as easily now as it did … | Mollie Gillen | 2015 | View | |
From NEW! accent/accentFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
This chapter is a reflection the author’s mother’s Dutch lessons. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Imagined Truths |
Richard Lemm | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add | |
From NEW! My Mother, My TranslatorFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Recounts the story of Singh’s mother translating his first collection of short stories into Punjabi. Their trust over the translation of the fourteenth story prompted Singh to push his … | Jaspreet Singh | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Preface and AcknowledgementsFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add | |
From NEW! PrologueFrom: Rooms |
Sina Queyras | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add | |
From BeginningsFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add | |
From NEW! bitter/bitterFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
A poem in Dutch and English | Sadiqa de Meijer | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
From NEW! Chapter OneFrom: Rooms |
The author talks about the process of starting this book, Virginia Woolf scholarship and her and her books’ presence/form in popular culture, and their own experiences in life and in school. | Sina Queyras | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From The All-American BoyFrom: Imagined Truths |
The author relates his early life/childhood in America. | Richard Lemm | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
From NEW! UnfinishedFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Reveals that Singh’s mother passed away before finishing her memoir, prompting him to undertake a new project. | Jaspreet Singh | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter TwoFrom: Rooms |
The author discusses creativity and the writing process, Virginia Woolf’s life and works, Constance Rooke, and women writing. | Sina Queyras | 27 | 2022 | $2.70 Add |