Autumn 2010 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Literary
Reporting at Wit’s
End: Tales from the
New Yorker
St Clair McKelway
PB $29.95
McKelway’s articles for
the New Yorker were
defined by their clean
language and
incomporable wit; by his
love of New York’s rough
edges and his affection
for the working man.
Williams Shawn, long-time editor, described him as a
writer with the “lightest of light touches”. His style
is so striking that “it was too odd to be imitated”.
The Possessed:
Adventures With
Russian Books and
The People Who
Read them
Elif Batuman
PB $26.95
Batuman searches for
the answers to the big
questions in the details
of lived experience,
combining fresh
readings of the great
Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad
and funny stories of the lives they continue to
influence – including her own.
Bright Wings:
An Illustrated
Anthology of
Poems About
Birds
HB $37.95
In this beautiful
collection of poems
and paintings, Billy
Collins, former U.S.
poet laureate, joins
with David Allen
Sibley, America’s
foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged
creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing
for centuries.
A Reader on
Reading
Alberto Manguel
HB $49.95
The thirty-nine essays in
this volume explore the
crafts of reading and
writing, the identity
granted to us by
literature, the farreaching
shadow of
Jorge Luis Borges,
whom Manguel read as
a young man and the
links between politics and books and between
books and our bodies.
The Oxford
Companion to
The Book
Michael F. Suarez
et al HB $450.00
This is a unique
reference work by an
international team of
scholars covering the
book from ancient
times to the present
day. Introductory
essays explore the history and technology of the book
and the range of genres and provide surveys of the
book around the world; these are followed by more
than 5,000 A–Z entries, all carefully cross-referenced.
Beg, Borrow, Steal:
A Writer’s Life
Michael Greenberg
HB $35.00
Michael Greenberg
regales us with his wry
and vivid take on the life
of a writer of little means
trying to practise his
craft or simply stay alive.
He finds himself
doctoring doomed movie
scripts; selling cosmetics
from an ironing board in
front of a women’s department store; writing about
golf, a game he has never played; and botching his
debut as a waiter in a posh restaurant.