Essays
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The Best American Essays 2021
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz
“The world is abundant even in bad times,” guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Schulz, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358381754
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2019
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.
“Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about tw- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Atwan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1328465802
- Language: English
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Book of My Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man’s life is about America- Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250043549
- Language: English
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
$20.00 Add to cart“Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” –NPR
Beloved author Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s celebrated work of nonfiction, now including additional essays and illustrations.
As a child, Nezh
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550569
- Language: English
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Rancher
$16.00 Add to cartTo heal is to be changed, to be, potentially, revolutionized by the fracture whose initial presence signals as a wound. For all of its pain, the fracture sends out new lay lines – new paths of inquiry
- Author: Saterstrom, Selah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1941681271
- Language: English
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Study in Perfect
$21.95 Add to cartStudy in Perfect is an exploration of perfection. In “Moving Horizontal” a Victorian house loses its charm over time, especially when compared to a modernist contemporary filled with light. Family lif
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Gorham, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351431
- Language: English
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Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life
$14.95 Add to cartWhen his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn’t quite two. His mother packed up his father’s belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The “man in a box” remained a my… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803238398
- Language: English
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97,196 Words: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of the best short work by France’s greatest living nonfiction writer
No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020- Author: Lambert, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758092
- Language: English
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Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
$14.00 Add to cart“Evocative . . . A paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean . . . His essays . . . reveal a man of deep feeling and humanity” (The Guardian).
A short sublime book on the three things de- Author: Izzo, Jean-Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1609456033
- Language: English
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Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
$18.95 Read moreA compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.
Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love l- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1681372827
- Language: English
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And Yet…: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThe seminal, uncollected essays–lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)–by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the noto… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 147677207X
- Language: English
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
$18.95 Add to cart“He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It’s a full house–read ’em and weep.”–Tom Waits
After toilin
- Author: Calonne, David Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865436
- Language: English
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Just Enough Liebling
$36.99 Add to cartAbbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine’s urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest
- Author: Liebling, A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0865477272
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 1990
- ISBN10: 0679730044
- Language: English
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The Communicating Vessels
$16.95 Add to cartFor the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayr cker, one of the significant European writers of our time.
Friederike Mayr cker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the- Author: Mayröcker, Friederike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0998267589
- Language: English
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Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language Volume 12
$22.00 Read moreIn this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapo… [more below]
- Series: Essais
- Author: Tsabari, Ayelet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1771667141
- Language: English
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Nature and Other Essays
$8.00 Read moreHe was an ordained minister, renowned orator, and beloved author and poet whose ideas on nature, philosophy, and religion influenced authors such as Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Through his w… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0486469476
- Language: English
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
$20.00 Add to cartThe American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many… [more below]
- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1501190415
- Language: English
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An Elemental Thing
$17.95 Add to cartWith An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-an… [more below]
- Author: Weinberger, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811216942
- Language: English
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
$21.99 Add to cartA compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review), and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-win… [more below]
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1501141104
- Language: English
