Essays
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
$16.95 Add to cartW. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.
- Author: Fleischmann, T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895472
- Language: English
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Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
$29.95 Read moreThis long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social stru… [more below]
- Author: Killian, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1937658651
- Language: English
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Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
$25.99 Read moreAmber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Lim?, and Huma Abedin are among the i… [more below]
- Author: Tamblyn, Amber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0778333337
- Language: English
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Black and Female: Essays
$23.00 Read moreThe first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire.
In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied- Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452111
- Language: English
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Appropriate: A Provocation
$15.95 Read moreHow do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, cr
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1324003588
- Language: English
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Not a Soul But Us: A Story in 84 Sonnets
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize!
In mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire, the plague pandemic wipes out half the inhabitants of a remote village. Left behind is a twelve-year-old
- Author: Smith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0872333604
- Language: English
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
$19.99 Add to cartCreative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-fiv
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326659
- Language: English
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On Lighthouses
$12.95 Add to cart“This book is a light at the end of the tunnel.” –The Paris Review
Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offe
- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641341
- Language: English
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Essays of E. B. White
$19.99 Add to cart“Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White’s style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Li
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0060932236
- Language: English
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Selected Non-Fictions
$29.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction–much of it appearing here in English for the first time–of “one of- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140290117
- Language: English
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On Writing
$16.00 Add to cartA master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners
Delve into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges’s thoughts on the theory and practice of literature, an- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105728
- Language: English
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The Amy Award Anthology 2
$9.99 Add to cartThe stories in this collection are the finalists of the 2022 International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir, an annual contest that celebrates excellence in short works of memoir writing.
Memoir writing, or
- Author: Rosner, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 177814022X
- Language: English
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The Harvest Gypsies
$14.00 Add to cartSelected by NYU as one of the century’s best books of American journalism.
Gathered in this volume are seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 for The San Francisco News about the pl
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1890771619
- Language: English
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Coventry: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNPR’s Favorite Books of 2019
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a- Author: Cusk, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619580
- Language: English
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What Is Art?
$16.00 Add to cartThis profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art revea… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140446427
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
$39.00 Add to cart“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition–and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” –Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think A… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0593412427
- Language: English
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
$17.00 Read moreA profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity–and witness t- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0226823865
- Language: English
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
$27.95 Add to cartJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women’s shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 1590300068
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance, and Other Essays
$7.00 Add to cartSix essays and one address outline Emerson’s moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes “History,” “Friendship,” “The Over-Soul,” “The Poet” and “Exp… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 1993
- ISBN10: 0486277909
- Language: English
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Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing
$18.00 Add to cartA sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker–acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.
Following the publication of her acclaime- Author: Barker, Elspeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 166802215X
- Language: English
