The Splendid things we planned: A family portrait

Canceled lives: My father, my scandal, and me

Blake Bailey

https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510771215/the-splendid-things-we-planned/

https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510783317/canceled-lives/

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife across the Arts.

Joseph Allen Boone

Columbia University Press 2026

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-melville-effect/9780231222198/

Prof. John Lurz (Tufts University)

The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language

University of Chicago Press

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo246540373.html

Peter E. Gordon

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289459/walter-benjamin/

Roderick Frazier Nash

Wilderness and the American Mind

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300190380/wilderness-and-the-american-mind/

Katie Ebner-Landy

The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294127

Susan Stewart

Poetry's Nature

Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

Proust: A very short introduction