Incoming Resources
- Vanity fair's writers on writers, edited by Graydon Carter with an introduction by David Friend
- Undying passion : a book of anecdotes about men, women, love, sex, and the literary life, [selected by] Joseph R. Orgel
- Reflections on literature and culture, Hannah Arendt ; edited and with an Introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
- The Penguin companion to classical, Oriental & African literature, Edited by D. M. Lang and D. R. Dudley
- The writing on the wall,, and other literary essays, [by] Mary McCarthy
- A book of one's own : people and their diaries, Thomas Mallon
- Kid authors, true tales of childhood from famous writers, stories by David Stabler ; illustrations by Doogie Horner
- To the boathouse, a memoir, Mary Ann Caws
- Autobiographical acts : the changing situation of a literary genre, Elizabeth W. Bruss
- Joseph Wood Krutch, a writer's life, by John D. Margolis
- What is world literature?, David Damrosch
- Strong opinions, [by] Vladimir Nabokov
- Time bites, views and reviews, Doris Lessing
- Fictions and events;, essays in criticism and literary history
- Hopes and impediments : selected essays, Chinua Achebe
- Inquisiciones, Jorge Luis Borges
- Masterplots, editor, Laurence W. Mazzeno
- The mythmakers : literary essays, Victor Sawdow Pritchett
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- In the margins, on the pleasures of reading and writing, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
- Fairy tales and after : from Snow White to E. B. White, Roger Sale
- A loaded gun, Emily Dickinson for the 21st century, Jerome Charyn
- The literary 100, a ranking of the most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all time, Daniel S. Burt
- Alphamaniacs, builders of 26 wonders of the word, Paul Fleischman ; art by Melissa Sweet
- Life, law, and letters : essays and sketches, Louis Auchincloss
- Classics for pleasure, Michael Dirda
- Where the tigers were, travels through literary landscapes, Don Meredith
- Why read the classics?, Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin
- Inner workings, literary essays, 2000-2005, J.M. Coetzee ; with an introduction by Derek Attridge
- Literary lectures presented at the Library of Congress
- Cyclopedia of world authors, edited by Frank N. Magill
- Concise dictionary of world literary biography
- Image, music, text, Roland Barthes ; essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath
- New ways to kill your mother, writers and their families, Colm Toibin
- The Western canon, the books and school of the ages, Harold Bloom
- An open book, coming of age in the heartland, Michael Dirda
- Breaking bread with the dead, a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind, Alan Jacobs
- Writing degree zero, Roland Barthes ; preface by Susan Sontag ; translated from the French by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith
- Words and their masters., Photos. by Jill Krementz
- The whole five feet, what the great books taught me about life, death, and pretty much everything else, Christopher R. Beha
- Wonderworks, the 25 most powerful inventions in the history of literature, Angus Fletcher
- A history of Western literature, J.M. Cohen
- Boswell's clap and other essays : medical analyses of literary men's afflictions, by William B. Ober
- How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken, essays, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Written lives, Javier MarĂas ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
- Invitation to the classics, edited by Louise Cowan and Os Guinness
- In the margins, on the pleasures of reading and writing, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
- The reverent discipline: essays in literary criticism and culture, [by] George A. Panichas. With a foreword by G. Wilson Knight
- Critical essays., Translated from the French by Richard Howard
- How to talk about books you haven't read, Pierre Bayard ; translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman