Essays
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Specimen Days
$11.95 Add to cart‘I obey my happy hour’s command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don’t do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.’
One of the best- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861389
- Language: English
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Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster
$18.00 Add to cartA combination of memoir, cultural critique, and manifesto, Weird Girls traces the art monster-the writer, often coded monstrous and male, single-mindedly dedicated to the work-from ancient myth to mod
- Author: Hagood, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1956005773
- Language: English
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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNew essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner
Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the Nation- Author: Robinson, Marilynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1250310385
- Language: English
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Palestina En Pedazos / Palestine in Pieces
$23.95 Read moreUn gran cuaderno de reflexiones en el que la autora funde lecturas y recuerdos sobre la tierra que sus ancestros se vieron obligados a abandonar en busca de una nueva vida.
«Una escritora delibe… [more below]- Author: Meruane, Lina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8439742304
- Language: Spanish
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Known and Strange Things: Essays
$24.00 Add to cartA blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time – The Guardian – Harper’s Bazaar –- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0812989783
- Language: English
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Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
$18.99 Add to cartOn September 13, 1998, John Scalzi sat down in front of his computer to write the first entry in his blog Whatever–and changed the history of the Internet as we know it today.
What, you’re not swallo- Author: Scalzi, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0765327112
- Language: English
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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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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
