Essays
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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
$16.95 Read moreSomething is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational,
- Author: Jones, Mary Paumier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393314928
- Language: English
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The Poetics of Wrongness
$22.00 Read moreFirst work of critical non-fiction from Bagley Wright Lecturer and Commonplace podcast host Rachel Zucker.
In her first book of critical non-fiction, The Poetics of Wrongness, poet Rachel Zucker explo
- Author: Zucker, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268705
- Language: English
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More to Say: Essays and Appreciations
$17.95 Read more“Earnest, amusing, and contemplative….though Beattie is known for her fiction, her nonfiction has just as much to offer.”–Publishers Weekly
“Shimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an ec- Series: Nonpareil Books #4
- Author: Beattie, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927521
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Rome
$22.00 Read moreFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Rome doesn’t judge you by Nicola Lagioia・The soul of the ci
- Series: Passenger #8
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1787703541
- Language: English
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On Democracy
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title
“For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline” (Madeleine Albright).
“I am a member of a party of one, and I liv
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905457
- Language: English
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Plant Dreaming Deep
$19.99 Add to cartMay Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: July 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0393315517
- Language: English
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartBrilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by “one of America’s most daring and talented writers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review): Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace’s … [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0316182389
- Language: English
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Travels in HyperReality
$18.95 Add to cart“A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times.” —Los Angeles Times
With the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Nam
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0156913216
- Language: English
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Black Avatar: And Other Essays
$18.00 Read moreThe first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar, Black Avatar combines elements of memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism.
The eight piece- Author: Majmudar, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724610
- Language: English
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author’s work. “Up to the author’s highest standard in a literary form that was m… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book, Hb 294
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 23 1974
- ISBN10: 0156252341
- Language: English
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Cabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
$23.95 Add to cartCabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska is a collection of favorite stories selected by the executive producers of the hit live event, radio show, and podcast Dark Wint… [more below]
- Author: Prince, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1646423313
- Language: English
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It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
$15.95 Add to cartAn impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writers.
When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lectur- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1619021145
- Language: English
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Standing by Words
$16.95 Read moreAn urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time-honored values against the ravages of modern society.
In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry consider- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437459
- Language: English
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DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland
$19.95 Add to cartJudy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends ess
- Author: Juanita, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0971635218
- Language: English
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Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction
$24.99 Add to cartNew creative nonfiction by some of Michigan’s most well-known and highly acclaimed authors.
- Author: Oomen, Anne-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0814345670
- Language: English
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
$17.95 Add to cartRate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood an… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803299915
- Language: English
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Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five–a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.
A fitting trib- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0425226891
- Language: English
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
$18.95 Read moreAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Watervi… [more below]
- Author: Calder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143470
- Language: English
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Cheek by Jowl
$16.00 Add to cartCheek by Jowl is a collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, the author argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the wo… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 149
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933500271
- Language: English
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
$29.95 Add to cartBringing together the thoughts of one of American literature’s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a stre
- Author: Trilling, Lionel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0810124882
- Language: English
