Book cover designers at Random House
The Inside Random House series has released another video. This one gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the publisher’s offices as book designers explain their …
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GERTRUDE publishes as part of Hermann Hesse Project
Coyote Canyon Press just published the first of two novels by Hermann Hesse, an endeavor we’re calling our Hermann Hesse Project. Just published is Gertrude. The …
H. L. Mencken – The American Language
H. L. Mencken with a Remington understrike typewriter H.L. Mencken as a uniquely American voice was The American Language, a book he believed would be …
Five Great Dialogues of Plato
At the time of his trial and execution in 399 BC, Socrates had reached the age of seventy. He had lived through the Periclean Age …
Ambrose Bierce: “Chickamauga”
“Realism” is an element of some of Abrose Bierce’s short stories (particularly those concerning the Civil War), but the term is of little value when …
Peter Rugg, or the Missing Man
From among his few short stories, William Austin’s fame rests primarily with one, “Peter Rugg, or the Missing Man,” which became immensely popular and a …
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Three of the essays in this collection (“History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-soul”) sprang from the 1836 lectures on the philosophy of history Emerson delivered at the …
John Dos Passos — Three Soldiers
The defining moment in the life of John Dos Passos came between August 16 and 20, 1917, when he experienced combat firsthand as an ambulance …
Mountain Interval by Robert Frost (1916)
The first edition of Robert Frost’s third collection of poems, Mountain Interval, was published in 1916 by Henry Holt and Company and was dedicated “To …