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Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers

Product Description: DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE TO THE COMMON FEATURES OF STORIES MILLIONS LOVE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W...read more

By James W. Hall

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9780812970951 | Random House Inc, April 10, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE TO THE COMMON FEATURES OF STORIES MILLIONS LOVE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common?

Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

Product Description: A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility...read more

By Amy L. Blair

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9781439906675 | Temple Univ Pr, November 18, 2011, cover price $76.50

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9781439906682 | Temple Univ Pr, November 18, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up.

How Reading Changed My Life

Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life

By Anna Quindlen

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9780345422781 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life

Miscellaneous:

9780307763525 | Ballantine Books, January 12, 2011, cover price $10.00

Reinforced:

9780606311786 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $19.20 | About this edition: Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life

Prebinding:

9781417648207 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $20.90 | About this edition: Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life

Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s that Made American Culture

Product Description: From the late 1940s through the JFK years, America was the home office of literary innovation. Writers forged new styles with the rapidly changing times, and generated new ideas that fit the challenges of late modernity. "Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit" shows how particular landmark books took on the hot-button subjects of the 1950s: race and religious difference; social class and the suburbs; the youth culture; conformity and group think; and much else...read more

By David Castronovo

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9780826416261 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 30, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This examination and celebration of the literature and thought of the 1950s throws the enduring works of a golden era into high relief.

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9780826417664 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From the late 1940s through the JFK years, America was the home office of literary innovation.

The Making Of A Bestseller: Success Stories From The Authors And The Editors, Agents, And Booksellers Behind Them

Product Description: According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.S. every year. Less than 1 percent of the books published make the bestseller list. People are fascinated by bestselling authors who have become every bit as much celebrities as rock musicians or film stars...read more

By Brian E. Hill and Dee Power

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9780793193080 | Kaplan, March 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.

Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, And Consumption In Contemporary Poetry

Product Description: A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance.Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of its origins. It also explores related issues concerning the reception of poetry, the impact of the computer on how we read poetry, the persistence of the letter "I" in poems by avant-garde poets, the strangeness of the line-break as a demand on the reader's attention, and the idea of the reader as consumer...read more

By Peter Middleton

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9780817314422 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 13, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance.

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9780817351519 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 13, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance.

Sinclair Lewis As Reader and Critic

Product Description: This study provides readers with a comprehensive view of novelist Sinclair Lewis as an avid reader and literary critic.

By Martin Bucco

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9780773464827 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This study provides readers with a comprehensive view of novelist Sinclair Lewis as an avid reader and literary critic.

Marketing Modernism Between the Two World Wars

By Catherine Turner

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9781558493766 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $39.95

The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century

Product Description: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stacey Michele Olster

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9780820324845 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building.

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9780820325217 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building.

Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999

Using the annual hardcover best seller lists from 'The Bookman' and then 'Publishers Weekly,' examines twentieth-century American social, cultural, and historical trends through the lens of popular literature. (view table of contents)

By Michael Korda

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9780760725597 | Silver Lining Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Using the annual hardcover best seller lists from 'The Bookman' and then 'Publishers Weekly,' examines twentieth-century American social, cultural, and historical trends through the lens of popular literature.

The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience: Popular Culture As Market Derived Art

Product Description: Elements of popular culture, such as literature and films, are major industries. If scholars are to fully understand how popular culture evolves and functions, techniques for dealing with the impact of business need to be factored into the analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alf H. Walle

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9780879728113 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Elements of popular culture, such as literature and films, are major industries.

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9780879728120 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Elements of popular culture (such as literature and films) are major industries.

Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers

Product Description: What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes their zeal? What do the denizens of this pop-culture world have in common? This book provides good answers as it scrutinizes the fans whose profiles can be traced at their conventions, in pages of fanzines, on websites, in chat-rooms, on electronic bulletin boards, and before the racks in comic-book stores...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Matthew Pustz

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9781578062003 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like?

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9781578062010 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, February 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like?

A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire

Product Description: Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading...read more

By Janice A. Radway

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9780807823576, titled "Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire" | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Book-of-the-Month Club and reconstructs the standards, ethos, tastes, and passions that drove club officials

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9780807848302 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading.

Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers

By Keith Tuma

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9780810116221 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 9, 1998, cover price $89.95

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9780810116238 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 9, 1998, cover price $29.95

Searching for Recognition: The Promotion of Latin American Literature in the United States

'Significant book for history of Latin American literature in English-language translation. Focusing on Waldo Frank's contributions, Rostagno chronicles changing North American attitudes toward Latin American literature. Other chapters deal with Blanche and Alfred Knopf, the serial El Corno Emplumado, the impact(s) of the Cuban Revolution, and the Center for Inter-American Relations. The take of any 'promotion,' however, is far more complicated than Rostagno indicates'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)

By Irene Rostagno

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9780313298691 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 1997, cover price $110.95 | About this edition: 'Significant book for history of Latin American literature in English-language translation.

Inside the Bestsellers: Authors Reveal Their Inspiring Stories

Amazon.com Review: What makes a book a bestseller? What separates The Celestine Prophecy, What to Expect When You're Expecting, and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive from the rest of the pack? In Inside the Bestsellers, Jerrold R. Jenkins explores the stories behind these and 15 other bestselling books, in an attempt to uncover how a book becomes (and remains) a blockbuster...read more

By Jerrold R. Jenkins and Mardi Link

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9780964940116 | Rhodes & Easton, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

Charles Olson's Reading: A Biography

Product Description: In this narrative account of the life and work of Charles Olson, Ralph Maud focuses on what the poet read as a basis for understanding the work he produced.To an extraordinary degree, Olson’s reading and life were coextensive, according to Maud, who notes that Olson saw his written output over his lifetime as a total cosmology...read more

By Ralph Maud

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9780809319954 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: In this narrative account of the life and work of Charles Olson, Ralph Maud focuses on what the poet read as a basis for understanding the work he produced.

Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60's

Product Description: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s. A look at the books behind the decade's youth movements, Scriptures for a Generation recalls the era as one of unprecedented literacy and belief in the power of books to change society...read more

By Philip D. Beidler

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9780820316413, titled "Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s" | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s.

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9780820317878, titled "Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s" | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s.

9780820316420 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s.

Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb

By Albert E. Stone

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9780805788532 | Twayne Pub, July 1, 1994, cover price $28.95

Reading National Geographic

Product Description: For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cultures, actually tells us much more about our own...read more

By Jane L. Collins and Catherine A. Lutz

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9780226497235 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1993, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places.

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9780226497242 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places.

The #1 New York Times Bestseller: Intriguing Facts About the 484 Books That Have Been #1 New York Times Bestsellers Since the First List in 1942.

Lists hundreds of books that have made the famous list, and offers facts about the publishing industry, authors, and the list itself

By John Bear

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9780898154849 | Ten Speed Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Lists hundreds of books that have made the famous list, and offers facts about the publishing industry, authors, and the list itself

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture (view table of contents)

By Joan Shelley Rubin

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9780807820100 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture

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9780807843543 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture

The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life

Includes the best reviews, essays, and articles of the Club's 'News,' including pieces by Heywood Brown, Maxwell Perkins, John Gunther, Robert Penn Warren, and Barbara Tuchman

By Al Silverman (editor)

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9780316101196 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Includes the best reviews, essays, and articles of the Club's 'News,' including pieces by Heywood Brown, Maxwell Perkins, John Gunther, Robert Penn Warren, and Barbara Tuchman

Fiction in Public Libraries 1900-1950

Discusses the criteria for the selection of fiction, examines the issues surrounding library fiction collections, and discusses censorship, young people's fiction, and the selection process

By Esther Jane Carrier

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9780872874596 | Libraries Unltd Inc, July 1, 1985, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Discusses the criteria for the selection of fiction, examines the issues surrounding library fiction collections, and discusses censorship, young people's fiction, and the selection process

The Books in My Life

By Henry Miller

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9780811201087 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1969, cover price $19.95

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