A gift book of essays explores the signficance of the number '13' through personal reflections, along with profiles of thirteen human beings whose life and work are involved with the number, including Philadelphia's Friday the Thirteenth Club.

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Chronicles the life of one of the nineteenth century's most colorful literary figures, detailing Hearn's career as a newspaper reporter, his poetry of the New Orleans underclass, and his move to Japan

Presents stories and poems written especially for children and penned by some of today's best-known writers, including pieces by Asimov, Beattie, Feiffer, Ginsberg, Hawkes, Irving, Kesey, Mailer, Matthiesen, Plimpton, Singer, and Theroux