"Larry McMurtry is the author of dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays ("Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen"), among other writings. He won the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, and Emmys, among other honors. When he died in March 2021, he was possibly Texas's best-known and best-loved writer, an honor he famously dismissed with a t-shirt that read "minor regional novelist."...

British author John Russell Fearn was one of the most popular—and prolific—authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, selling work to all of the classic American science fiction magazines. Under his own name (and several pseudonyms), his novels and short stories appeared in Astounding Stories, Astonishing Stories, Startling Stories, Amazing Stories—and many more!

Included in this volume are 25 of his best works, selected

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A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of listeners. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential collection showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism,...

"Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built 'one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century'"(David Young, Contemporary Poets). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work -- including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality -- showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work:...

Selected from thirteen of his works, The world of Farley Mowat displays Farley's recurrent boyish glee at chicanery and pratfall, his outrage at man's aggressiveness and inhumanity, his compassion for the ravaged animal species of the North like whale, caribou, and wolf, his indignation at our greedy depletion of earth's bounty of gold, fish, furs, oil, and minerals.

"Richard Wagamese, one of Canada's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same. Following the success of Embers, which has sold almost seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese's non-fiction works, with an introduction...

Contains over 100 poems selected from five previously published works, together with 23 new poems. Planted firmly in the natural world, David Whyte invites readers to join him on the path and admonishes us to get down on our hands and knees in the thicket to find our own way.

These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress, and in defiance of the local landscapes that provide our life, our cultural heritage, our history and our home.