Essays
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The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
$19.00 Add to cartA book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner.
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in T- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0525435433
- Language: English
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Five Moral Pieces
$12.95 Add to cartEmbracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever … [more below]
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0156013258
- Language: English
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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
$27.95 Add to cartVirtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. L
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882160
- Language: English
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Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
$25.95 Add to cartFor this definitive collection of Pound’s Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How… [more below]
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: March 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0811201570
- Language: English
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Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
$18.95 Add to cartMost of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution – related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0762796502
- Language: English
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By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
$20.99 Add to cartA personal glimpse into the life of writer, journalist, war correspondent, adventurer Ernest Hemingway, ranging from experiences in the Spanish Civil War and World War II to his passion for bullfighti… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0684839059
- Language: English
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
$19.95 Add to cartThis international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece–the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of t
- Author: James, Clive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 17 2008
- ISBN10: 039333354X
- Language: English
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On Poetry and Poets
$23.99 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century–he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot ex
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531978
- Language: English
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Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America
$17.99 Add to cart“WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic.” –Douglas Brinkley
Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Piazza, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0062008226
- Language: English
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The Spirit of Controversy: And Other Essays
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hazlitt, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0199591954
- Language: English
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Guard the Mysteries
$20.00 Add to cartGuard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo pl
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Sigo, Cedar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1950268292
- Language: English
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
$27.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on l- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 848746392
- Language: English
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On Dreams
$18.00 Add to cartAfflicted with sudden blind spots in her right eye, Maureen Thorson consults her doctor. Her diagnosis is AZOOR (acute zonal occult outer retinopathy), a rare condition that has no known cause and is
- Author: Thorson, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1733529438
- Language: English
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This Old Man: All in Pieces
$16.95 Read moreRoger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July i… [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1101971398
- Language: English
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Did Jesus Have a Cat?: And Other Observations from a Quirky Mind
$15.95 Add to cartConnie Pursell is an astute observer of life whose writings capture the eccentric, the quirky, and even the divine in everyday incidents. Inspired by the writings of Natalie Goldberg, David Sedaris, a… [more below]
- Author: Purcell, Connie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 098296787X
- Language: English
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The Red Notebook: True Stories
$12.95 Add to cartPaul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also publi… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperback
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0811214982
- Language: English
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Walden
$9.95 Read moreI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well
Eschewing a conventional residence and lifestyle, Thoreau set up home in the woods on the shore of Walden Pond in- Series: Everyman Paperback
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 046087635X
- Language: English
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The Essays of Leonard Michaels
$18.00 Add to cartLeonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in the New York of
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532265
- Language: English
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At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
$20.00 Add to cartIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay–a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniatu
- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531315
- Language: English
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Quiet Places
$19.00 Add to cartA career-spanning collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English
Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke’s forays into the border- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862965
- Language: English
