Essays
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Plastic: An Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreWINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!
WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!
“Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the moder
- Author: Cobb, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 164362038X
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
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If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display
$22.95 Read moreEssays, stories and poems on the interior lives of bookstores.
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling. Thran, w
- Author: Thran, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0889714487
- Language: English
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Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life
$24.95 Read moreMillions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner … [more below]
- Series: Writers on Writing
- Author: Dixon, M. C. Benner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0472056476
- Language: English
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Thank You for Not Reading
$15.95 Add to cartThank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promo… [more below]
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1948830450
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
$23.95 Read more2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting e- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211629
- Language: English
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
$17.99 Add to cart“An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate–and most importantly–a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability.” —Doug
- Author: Cumming, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062435795
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
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Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing
$36.95 Read moreFire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day. Designed to inspire and inform, this co… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Frances Payne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527938
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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Granta 164: Last Notes
$19.99 Read moreGranta’s summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain’s most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from
- Author: Rausing, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1909889571
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$27.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450623
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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Leavetakings: Essays
$18.95 Add to cartLeavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About he… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1602234248
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- Language: English
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The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
$16.95 Read moreNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives–including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleem… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220307
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$17.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
