"When you truly fall in love, whether with a person or a place, you make everything else fit around it. The last eight years of my life have been a love affair with this place." -- Gwendolyn Bounds, author of The Little Chapel By the River For centuries, writers have drawn inspiration from the Hudson River and its surroundings. John Burroughs, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters. In River of Words, author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May explore the current crop of Hudson Valley writers, offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region. Included in this rich collection of emerging and established novelists, memoirists, poets, journalists, and screenwriters are Pulitzer Prize-winners John Ashbery and the late Frank McCourt, bestselling memoirists Julie Powell and Susan Orlean, and distinguished emigres Chinua Achebe and Da Chen. What draws these writers together is not only their devotion to their art but their love and affection for the Hudson Valley. Through words and photographs, River of Words offers an inside perspective on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the pull of this distinctive American landscape.

Product Description: This stunning book is a paean to Dennis Stock, a photographer whose intimate portraits captured iconic figures and historic moments. A member of the historic Magnum Photos cooperative, Dennis Stock took classic portraits of actors, jazz singers, and hippies, as well as photographs of the natural beauty of Hawaii, the Far East, Japan, and Alaska...read more

The author-photographer of California Trip presents a series of photographs featuring the late actor whose career and persona became symbolic of twentieth-century tormented adolescence, in a volume that documents his professional and private worlds in the year before his violent death. 25,000 first printing.

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Photos show New England graveyards, churches, fall foliage, coastline, villages, farms, lighthouses, fishing boats, livestock, and snow

Product Description: Book by Stock, Dennis

Quotations, brief commentary, and stunning photographs celebrate the majestic land, wildlife, and people of Alaska

Verse and prose observations of a seventeenth-century writer during his travels through Japan