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Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches (1949-2019)

journalist, poet, biographer, music critic

Where Dead Voices Gather
Country
Hellfire
In the hand of Dante
Trinities
Power on earth
Cut numbers
Dino
King of the Jews
The Last Opium Den
Dangerous dances
The Devil and Sonny Liston
Open City 13
Everything Is An Afterthought The Life And Writings Of Paul Nelson
The Nick Tosches reader
Unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll
Me and the devil
Night Train
In the hands of Dante
Trinities Uk Edition
KIng of the Jews
Under Tiberius
Chaldea and I Dig Girls
Confessions d'un chasseur d'opium
More Rear Views
Never Trust A Loving God
Héros oubliés du rock'n roll
Dino. Rat- Pack, die Mafia und der große Traum vom Glück
Der Teufel und Sonny Liston. Aufstieg und Fall einer Boxlegende
Trinities
Me and the Devil: A Novel
Rear view
Les pièges de la nuit
Me and the Devil
Save the Last Dance for Satan
Night Train
Cut Numbers
Country
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Where Dead Voices Gather
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Trinities
Trinites
Moi et le diable
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Johnny's First Cigarette - La première cigarette de Johnny
Roi des Juifs (le)
Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll
Geschaefte Mit Dem Vatikan Die Affaere S
La main de Dante
Hellfire
I Married an Artist
La religion des ratés
Where the Dead Voices Gather Proof
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Johnny's First Cigarette - La première cigarette de Johnny
In the Hand of Dante
Lillian Faderman
Lillian Faderman (born 1940)

historian, literary critic

  • University of California, Berkeley
Naked in the promised land
Scotch Verdict
Surpassing the Love of Men
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
The gay revolution
Chloe Plus Olivia
To Believe in Women
I Begin My Life All Over
Speaking for ourselves
Gay L.A.
Scotch Verdict
Harvey Milk
Lesbian-feminism in turn-of-the-century Germany
Gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender events, 1848-2006
Lesbians in Germany
Lesbians in Germany
My mother's wars
Scotch Verdict
Surpassing the Love of Men
Speaking for Ourselves
Scotch Verdict
Suggestions for using Speaking for ourselves
Desnuda En La Tierra Prometida
Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)

literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar

  • Yale University, University of Dublin
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Yeats
Four Dubliners
Eminent domain
James Joyce's hundredth birthday, side and front views
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry
Yeats and Joyce
Oscar Wilde at Oxford
Letters
Oscar Wilde
The modern tradition
Edwardians and late Victorians
Ulysses on the Liffey
The identity of Yeats
Golden codgers; biographical speculations
Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
A long the riverrun
W.B. Yeats's second puberty
Letters. 4/4
Literary biography
Letters of James Joyce. 2-3/3
The New Oxford book of American verse
Oscar Wilde; a collection of critical essays
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The consciousness of Joyce
Modern poems
The identity of Yeats
Yeats, the man and the masks
James Joyce Part 2
The uses of decadence
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Yeats
Modern Poems
Joyce in love
The uses of decadence
Along the Riverrun
Omnium Gatherum
Modern poems
The modern tradition
Odysseus in Dublin
James Joyce Part 1
Oscar Wilde   Part 1 Of 2
The Oscar Wilde playing cards
Samuel Beckett, Nayman of Noland
FOUR DUBLINERS
Modern poems
James Joyce's tower
Ulysses
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Oscar Wilde. Biographie
Wilde and the nineties
Golden Codgers
The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Henry James among the aesthetes
Ulysses the divine nobody
Oskar Uaĭlʹd
Yeats, the man and the masks
Oscar Wilde (20th Century Views)
Cuatro Dublineses
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The backgrounds of Ulysses
Vier Dubliner
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The modern tradition
The limits of Joyce's naturalism
The identity of Yeats. --
Golden codgers
Oscar Wilde   Part 2 Of 2
James Joyce's tower
Edwardians and late Victorians
W.B.Yeats
Ulysses on the Liffey
The New Oxford book of American verse
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson (born 1973)

poet, faculty member, essayist, art critic

  • CUNY Graduate School and University Center
The Argonauts
Jane
The art of cruelty
Bluets
The Red Parts
The latest winter
On Freedom
Rachel Harrison - Life Hack
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
Something Bright, Then Holes
Penguin Modern Poets 6
Shiner
Mavibent
André Aciman
André Aciman (born 1951)

literary critic, journalist, romanist, literary theorist, literary historian

  • Harvard University, Lehman College
Tell me true
Out of Egypt
Call Me by Your Name
Find Me
False papers
Eight white nights
Enigma variations
The Best American Essays 1999
World Monuments
Letters of transit
Harvard Square
Chiamami col tuo nome
ENCUÉNTRAME
llámame por tu nombre
The Proust project
Eight white nights
Out of Egypt
Alibis
Out of Egypt
Last Summer in the City
Harvard Square
Call Me By Your Name Book Series 2 Books Collection Set By Andre Aciman
ALIBIS
Noem me bij jouw naam
Homo Irrealis
Homo Irrealis
When I first held you
Entrez
Harvard Square
The Maid By Nita Prose, Find Me By André Aciman & Peak Peril By Sharna Jackson 3 Books Collection Set
Letters of transit
Call Me by Your Name
find me
Homo Irrealis
ZnajdĹş mnie - Andre Aciman [KSIÄĹťKA]
Alexandrian Summer
Vind me (Dutch Edition)
Bul Beni
Adinla Cagir Beni
False Papers
Proust Projesi
Out of Egypt
Eight White Nights
Harvard Meydani
Homo Irrealis / Homo Irrealis : the Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been
Lejos de Egipto
Trouve-moi
La Huida de Egipto
Les variations sentimentales
Damals in Alexandria. Erinnerung an eine verschwundene Welt
Out of Egypt
Yi ni de ming zi hu huan wo
Find Me a Novel
Valse papieren
The Proust Project
Sekiz Beyaz Gece
Ocho noches blancas
Call Me by Your Name (Chinese Edition)
Find Me
Variaciones enigma
Justine
Ultima notte ad Alessandria
Alibis
Ieşrea din Egipt
Find Me (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)
The Best American Essays 2020
Ruf mich bei deinem Namen
Llámame por tu nombre
Harvard Square
Enigma Variations
Ai de bian zou qu =
Llamame Por Tu Nombre
Letters of Transit
Eight White Nights
Harvard Square
William Zinsser
William Zinsser (1922-2015)

journalist, literary critic

  • Deerfield Academy, Buckley Country Day School
Writing about your life
Inventing the Truth
On Writing Well
American Places
The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)
Easy to Remember
Writing places
Extraordinary Lives
Speaking of Journalism
Writing with a word processor
Writing to learn
Pop goes America
The lunacy boom
Spring training
The haircurl papers and other searches for the lost individual
The Writer Who Stayed
Seen any good movies lately?
Spiritual quests
Willie and Dwike
Search & research
Going on faith
Mitchell & Ruff
Weekend guests
The paradise bit
The city dwellers
Any old place with you
Annual report of the National Refractory & Brake Company
They went
Willie and Dwike
A family of readers
How to Write a Memoir
Thoughts on leaving Wesleyan
Peterson's Birds
Iyi Yazmak Üzerine
David Thomson
David Thomson (born 1941)

journalist, biographer, film critic, performing artist, film scholar, actor, opinion journalist, critic

  • Dulwich College
Bette Davis
Try to tell the story
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Biographical dictionary of the cinema
Overexposures
Silver light
Suspects
The whole equation
In Nevada
Nicole Kidman
The new biographical dictionary of film
Hollywood
Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen
Showman
Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes
Beneath Mulholland
Wild excursions
Warner Bros
Scott's men
The new biographical dictionary of film
The big screen
How to watch a movie
Warren Beatty
America in the dark
The big sleep
IN NEVADA
Marlon Brando
Hungry as hunters
Rosebud
Rosebud
Television
Movie man
The new biographical dictionary of film
Try to Tell the Story (Vintage)
A biographical dictionary of film
The moment of Psycho
Why acting matters
A bowl of eggs
The big screen
The moment of Psycho
EXCERPTS FROM "MOVIE MAN"
Moments that made the movies
The moment of Psycho
Andrei Bely
Andrei Bely (1880-1934)

poet, autobiographer, playwright, literary critic, philosopher, critic, poetry study, illustrator

  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
Perepiska, 1902-1932
Peterburg
Серебряный голубь
St. Petersburg
The christened Chinaman
Korolevna i rytsari
Mezhdu dvukh revoli͡u︡t͡s︡iĭ
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletiǐ
Nachalo veka =
Kotik Letaev
Simvolizm kak miroponimanie
Armenii͡a︡
Gibel' senatora (Peterburg)
First Encounter
Pervoe svidanie
Simfonii
Masterstvo Goglya
Kritika, ėstetika, teoriya simvolizma
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii =
Poems
Glossaloliia
Petersburg
Kreshchenyĭ kitaet︠s︡
Stikhi o Rossii
Ritm kak dialektika i "Mednyǐ vsadnik"
Petersburg
Lug zelenyi
The dramatic symphony
Mezhdu dvukh revolutsii =
Masterstvo Gogoli͡a
Odna iz obiteleĭ t︠s︡arstva teneĭ =
Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner
Pami͡a︡ti Aleksandra Bloka
Vozvrashchen'e na rodinu = Returning home
Maski
Pervoe svidanie
Selected essays of Andrey Bely
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡
Peterburg
Simvolizm. Der Symbolismus
The dramatic symphony ; The forms of art
Posle razluki
Tragediia tvorchestva
Zapiski chudaka =
Kotik Letaev
Vospominanii͡a︡ o Bloke
Vospominaniia ob Aleksandre Aleksandroviche Bloke =
Simvolizm
Kotik Letaev
Sirin uchenogo varvarstva
Serebrianyi golub
Vospominaniya ob Aleksandre Bloke =
Serebryanyi golub'
Kotik Letaev
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii =
Vospominaniya ob Aleksandre Aleksandroviche Bloke
Vozvrashchen'e na rodinu = Returning home
St. Petersburg
Arabeski
Staryĭ Arbat
Nesobrannoe
Pétersbourg
Lug zelenyĭ
Vozvrashchenʹe na rodinu =
Izbrannai︠a︡ proza
I͡A︡ byl mezh vas--
Stikhotvoreniya
Simvolizm
Peterburg
Moskva
[Gibelʹ senatora
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii
Nachalo veka
Pétersbourg
Andreĭ Belyĭ i Ivanov-Razumnik--perepiska
Mezhdu dvukh revolyutsii
Revoli͡u︡t͡s︡ii͡a︡ i kulʹtura
Peterburg
In the kingdom of shadows
Stikhotvoreniia i poemy
" Vash ryt︠s︡arʹ"
Petersburg (Russian Classics) (in Russian)
Perepiska, 1928-1933
Tragedi︠i︡a tvorchestva: Dostoevskiĭ i Tolstoĭ. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Simfonii
Peterburg
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ ipoėmy v 2 tt
Serebrianyi golub
Symbolismus, Anthroposophie
Nachalo veka =
Kak my pishem
Zapiski chudaka =
Armeniya
Moskovskiĭ alʹmanakh
Sochineniya v dvukh tomakh
Kak my pishem
Selected essays of Andrey Bely
Glossolalii͡a︡
Gogol's artistry
"Vash ryt︠s︡arʹ"
Petersburg
Dusha samosoznai︠u︡shchai︠a︡
"Vse mysli dli︠a︡ vykhoda v svet - zaperty"
"...nicht anders als über die Seele des anderen"
Zhizni gibelʹnoĭ pozhar
Verwandeln des Lebens
Simvolizm kak miroponimanie
Stikhotvoreniya i poemy
Serebrianyi golub' =
Ofeĭra
Anthroposophy and Russia
Kubok meteleĭ
Serebri︠a︡nyĭ golubʹ
Masterstvo Gogoli︠a︡
Peterburg
Glossalolīi︠a︡
Vospominanii͡a︡ ob Aleksandre Aleksandroviche Bloke
Mezhdu dvukh revoli︠u︡t︠s︡iǐ
Sobranie ėpicheskikh poem
Masterstvo Gogoli︠a︡
Moskovskiĭ chudak
Poziia slova
Antichrist
André Bély
Serebri͡a︡nyĭ golubʹ ; Rasskazy
Mezhdu dvukh revoli︠u︡t︠s︡iĭ
Arabeski
Vospominaniia ob Aleksande Aleksandroviche Bloke
Putevyia zametki
Na perevale
Andreĭ Belyĭ, Ėmiliĭ Metner
Pochemu i͡a︡ stal simvolistom i pochemu i͡a︡ ne perestal im bytʹ vo vsekh fazakh moego ideĭnogo i khudozhestvennogo razvitii͡a︡
Simfonii︠a︡ (2-i︠a︡, dramaticheskai︠a︡)
O khudozhestvennoĭ proze
Putevyi︠a︡ zami︠e︡tki
Putevyi︠a︡ zami︠e︡tki
Andreĭ Belyĭ, Aleksandr Blok, Moskva
Moskva
Zvezda
Mezhdu dvukh revoli︠u︡t︠s︡iĭ
Masterstvo Gogoli︠a︡
[ Vospominanii͡a︡ o A. A. Bloke (romanized form)]
Na perevale
Izbrannoe
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletiĭ
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletiĭ
Zoloto v lazuri
The dramatic symphony, translated by Roger and Angela Keys ; The forms of art, translated by John Ellsworth
Vospominanii︠a︡ o Shteĭnere
Krylatai͡a︡ dusha
Kotik Letaev [by] Andrei Bely
Odna iz obiteleĭ t︠s︡arstva teneĭ
Simvolizm
Pami︠a︡ti Aleksandra Bloka
Poezii︠a︡ slova ; O smysle poznanii︠a︡
Sievernaia simfonia: 1-ia geroicheskaia
Zoloto v lazuri
Vozvrashchenʹie na rodinu
Serebri︠a︡nyĭ golubʹ
Chetyre simfoniĭ =
Glossaloli︠a︡
Vospominani|i|a o Shteĭnere
Maski
Sirin uchenogo varvarstva
Kak my pishem
St. Petersburg
Vozvrashchenʹe na rodinu
Na perevale
Pami︠a︡ti Aleksandra Bloka
Ritm, kak dialektika, i "Mednyĭ vsadnii͡a︡"
Istorii︠a︡ stanovlenii︠a︡ samosoznai︠u︡shcheĭ dushi
Andreĭ Belyĭ o Bloke
Zapiski mechtateleĭ
Complete short stories
Rudolʹf Shteĭner i Gete v mirovozzri︠e︡nīi sovremennosti
Putevyi︠a︡ zami︠e︡tki
Pétersbourg
Poėziia slova
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Khristos voskres
Andreĭ Belyĭ
Andreĭ Belyĭ i Aleksandr Blok--perepiska 1903-1919
Zoloto v lazuri
Sirin uchënogo varvarstva
Rasskazy
Stikhi o Rossīi
Moskva pod udarom
Veter s Kavkaza
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletiĭ
"-- Nicht anders als über die Seele des anderen"
Khristos voskres
Kritika, ėstetika, teorii͡a︡ simvolizma
Vospominaniia o A.A. Bloke
Urna
Zhezl Aarona
Chetyre simfonii
Krizis kulʹtury
Arabesk
Pepel
Peterburg
Poezi|i|a slova ; O smysle poznani|i|a
Moskva
Krizis kulʹtury
Glossalol~ia
Sievernaia simfoniia
Korolevna i ryt︠s︡ari
O smysle poznanii︠a︡
Andreĭ Belyĭ
Kotik Letaev
Simvolizm
Na perevale
Evangelie kak drama
Posle razluki
Mezhdu dvukh revoliutsii
Pervoe svidanie
Sochinenii︠a︡
Ofeĭra
Zapiski chudaka
Moskovskiĭ chudak
Zapiski chudaka
Moskva pod udarom
Kreshchenyĭ kitaet︠s︡
Petersburg
Vozvrat