Essays
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With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood: A Horror Miscellany
$17.95 Add to cartThe “f**k” count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money’s gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency
- Author: Reed, Justin Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1566896916
- Language: English
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Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink!
$18.99 Add to cartBest-selling outdoor humorist McManus (The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw) bags another in this collection of yarns featuring irascible woodsman Rancid Crabtree, “Phantom of the Woods” Retch Sweeney, boyh… [more below]
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0805021078
- Language: English
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Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
$18.00 Add to cartThirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America–including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Ri… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0143131036
- Language: English
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Best of Reader’s Digest, Volume 4: Heartwarming Stories, Dramatic Tales, Hilarious Cartoons, and Timeless Photographs
$24.99 Read more- Series: Best of Reader’s Digest #4
- Author: Reader’s Digest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1621459322
- Language: English
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
$18.99 Read more“There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature,” raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her criti… [more below]
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0060927569
- Language: English
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Unbearable Splendor
$17.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Believer Poetry Award
“[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.”-
- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1566894514
- Language: English
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Socialist Realism
$18.00 Add to cartMoving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Low, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895510
- Language: English
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Best of Myles
$15.95 Add to cartThe great Irish humorist and writer Flann O’Brien, aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen, also wrote a newspaper column called “Cruiskeen Lawn.” The Best of Myles collects the best and funniest, co… [more below]
- Series: John F. Byrne Irish Literature
- Author: O’Brien, Flann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1564782158
- Language: English
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Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction
$15.95 Add to cartThe late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form… [more below]
- Author: Kitchen, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350991
- Language: English
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Burn This Book
$16.99 Add to cartPublished in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0061774014
- Language: English
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
$16.95 Add to cartThe essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1582434840
- Language: English
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Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
$20.00 Add to cartGutenberg’s invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persiste
- Author: Miller, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1571313540
- Language: English
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Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
$18.99 Add to cartA searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.
Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collect- Author: Walker, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1501154338
- Language: English
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Writing While Parenting
$23.95 Add to cartBen Berman’s Writing While Parenting explores what it means to pursue a creative passion alongside raising a family, how having children can make a parent both more vulnerable and more adventurous as
- Author: Berman, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1773491113
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
$26.00 Read moreA warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals in our lives, from a spectrum of talented creators
What is your most poignant memory surrounding foo- Author: Mamet, Zosia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0143137298
- Language: English
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Spirit Things
$20.95 Add to cartA collection of essays that evoke an adventurous spirit and the craving for myth, Spirit Things examines the hidden meanings of objects found on a fishing boat, as seen through the eyes of a child. Au… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Messersmith-Glavin, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1602234558
- Language: English
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The Common Reader
$19.99 Add to cartWoolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with a… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 015602778X
- Language: English
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It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability
$18.00 Add to cartWith equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio’s It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability explores what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary cult
- Author: Davio, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941960065
- Language: English
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People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living
$28.00 Read moreA riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism–only to end up living comfortably alongside it
What do post-work politics, t- Author: Olds, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0316565717
- Language: English
