The Book Company: New Products - American

Whiskey Tender (A Memoir)

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:10:58 +0000

Finalist for the National Book Award

Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence

Winner of the Southwest Book Award

A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlanti..

Price: $30.00

Willa Cather: The Prairie Triology (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:05:39 +0000

Discover and treasure three of Willa Cather’s most beloved novels in this sumptuous collector’s edition.

One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Willa Cather captured the beauty, hardships, and triumphs of life on the Great Plains with lyrical prose and unforgettab..
Price: $19.99

Knocking Myself Up (A Memoir of My (In)Fertility)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:26:09 +0000

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman
Written in intimate, gleefu..
Price: $28.99

Fruit Punch (A Memoir)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:25:44 +0000

An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this country
Written in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Pun..
Price: $26.99

The Guy Davenport Reader

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:29:02 +0000

Modernism gave us Yeats and Picasso, Stravinsky and Balanchine—and it gave us Guy Davenport, perhaps its finest and most neglected heir, whose four decades of fiction, poetry, essays, and translations are collected here in paperback for the very first time

"The imagination is like..
Price: $23.95

On Wilderness

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:19:20 +0000

Wilderness is central to the image of Maine most of us carry in our minds. In this extraordinary collection nearly forty writers, poets, artists, and photographers bear witness to the central role it plays in Maine, its importance to our understanding of nature, to our sense of who we are in the w..
Price: $15.00

Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture (The Nomadic West)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:36:53 +0000

The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West. The book privileges transnational and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to understand how Western iconography has moved well beyond both national limits and literary borders, be..
Price: $64.99

Piece by Piece (Selected Prose)

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:35:05 +0000

“The depth, breadth, and height of scholarship in Piece by Piece is evident throughout, yet the writing is graceful and clear . . . In each of these thirty pieces, Hadas takes us on the scenic and historic route to our destination, and we’re grateful for the trip.”—Literary MattersPrice: $19.95

Color (Essays on Race, Family, and History)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:40:50 +0000

In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, M..
Price: $27.00

Walls (Essays, 1985-1990)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:35:27 +0000

Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, Kenneth McClane's first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is closely related to his second collection, Color, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009. Walls is a powerful and deeply moving meditation on relati..
Price: $27.00