A primer for newcomers, a haven for aficionados and a baedeker for academicians, No Bottom includes an original interview with Barry Lopez and a provocative inquiry into his six short story books. No Bottom informally tracks the life and letters of an American icon and world-revered author whose literature of hope reminds readers, "The way we take care of ourselves is by taking care of each other." Its portals provide grounding for new arrivals to Lopez's insatiable Trickster wit and yield reader-friendly end notes for scholars.

No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez

Biographies & Memoirs

Mike Newell

Professionals & Academics

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Peter Rutkoff's father died when Peter was only seven, so the memories are faint. In 1949, Harry Rutkoff succumbed to wartime wounds, having been machine-gunned on a battle field in France five years before. Peter's yearning was always for his father's voice—as he says in his intro, he could never quite bring back the timbre of it, the sense of a soul there, speaking to him. But with his father's wartime stories, found years later, Peter had more to go on. They comprise a thread of Harry's experience and attentions, as slender as life can be. And in correspondence here is Peter's own story, rich remembrances of young eyes, finding the father that life would bring him.

The Next Hedgerow

Literature & Fiction

Rutkoff, Peter

United States

Uniquely articulate and comical, genuinely and generously nutty, this spot-on survey of all that is hangover serves as a perfect companion for aftermath moments that can stretch into hours, days or weeks of physical and metaphysical suffering. A cookbook for the imagination, stuffed with food, music, movies, literature and diverse other salves. Crack this book before cracking the next bottle—and you'll have a guide to a richer, more comforting and straighter landing.

The Wrath of Grapes

Politics & Social Sciences

Meanor, Patrick

Social Sciences

In this gripping narrative, one man's life story is intertwined with that of a woman who found him, late in his life, and devoted herself to receiving his words and handling them with profound care. Both stories—that of the man, and that of her careful work—are presently here simply and truly, in sure voice, with impressive intelligence and grace.

To Be a Man: Johnnie Wilson, Jr.

Rothenberg, Susan Gluck

Community & Culture

Final Exam

Kluge, P.F.

The Essential College is a penetrating look at the present state and future prospects of liberal arts education in America, as well as a fascinating chronicle of one man’s life in higher education.

The Essential College

Education & Teaching

Bruce Haywood

Higher & Continuing Education

A book of poetry about a beloved family dog.

Flowering Bruno

Charlene Fix

Poetry

Living, remembering, imagining and telling -- these are inventive acts that create what we share as reality. In But That Didn't Happen to You, life happens comically, verbally, with a clear sense of what we know, and shape, as story and as history.

But That Didn't Happen to You

Harry Marten

Memoirs

A charming and thoughtful gaze back across the Atlantic at a very specific place in time -- Bruce Haywood's home ground, an English coal mining town of the 1930's and 40's. The peculiar human ways of that place and its people come across clearly and endearingly in this lively memoir. The process of becoming American and seeing his old home ground anew, through American eyes, is an insightful thread woven throughout.

Allerton Bywater

Perish From The Earth is a finely-crafted fiction of the 1863 Manhattan draft riots. With cinematic sweep, in vivid detail and keen action, Perish proposes a startling question: how might the American Civil War have ended differently?

Perish From The Earth

Perry Lentz

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