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Roger Rosenblatt
A guide to life for those who should know better
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Roger Rosenblatt’s dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display….Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary, or our most audacious visionary comic? –Joyce Carol Oates
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These cautionary notes and hilarious stories pack the Rosenblatt punch. Anything Can Happen offers a class in Tyranny for Beginners, warns about the snares of dinner parties, and explains the…
After the unexpected death of his daughter Amy, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife move into their son-in-law’s house to help care for their three grandchildren. Everyone pitches in, and Roger…
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Originally published in hardcover in 2013.
For those who write and those who want to, a book on the joys and fascinations of the literary life by an author whose work has pleased millions.
Roger Rosenblatt’s hymn to our noblest qualities: embracing life, sharing love, and accepting responsibility toward one another.
In this illuminating book Roger Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from…
Harry March is something of a wreck and more than half nuts. Up until now, he has lived peacefully on an island in the Hamptons with his talking dog, Hector…
Though still reeling from their daughter’s untimely death, Rosenblatt and his wife Ginny carry on, reconstructing a family, sustaining one another, and guiding three lively, alert, and tenderhearted grandchildren through…
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Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works-from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast.
Offers a personal meditation on grief itself. This title addresses the universal experience of grief. This title articulates the geometry of sorrow, offering readers an account of the possibility of…
The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love.In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love…
An aging poet contemplates the later chapters of his life while avoiding trips to the neurologist, spending time with his grandson, and falling for a blind woman less than half…
This book investigates the roots of consumer culture and its meanings for us.
Prize-winning essayist Roger Rosenblatt offers readers a survival manual comprised of 54 gems of funny, brilliant, wise, and indispensable advice.
Spalding Gray
Presents a soul-baring monologue inspired by The Killing Fields . As well as offering an anatomy of South-East Asia, this book is laden with movie gossip. Names are dropped, marijuana…
Lavishly illustrated and beautifully made, this four-volume collector’s box set contains three books of plates illustrating all of Levinthal’s major series to date–from Hitler Moves East (1972-75) to History (2010-15)–in…
This volume describes, analyzes, and evaluates the first 25 years of the largest lasting collaborative educational and research program between two neighboring research universities.
