Essays
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1476785201
- Language: English
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Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays
$18.00 Read moreAn electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction
This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and- Author: Sloan, Aisha Sabatini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452715
- Language: English
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartHere is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and t… [more below]
- Author: Acocella, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0307275760
- Language: English
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How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing
$16.00 Add to cartA fun and thoughtful collection of previously unpublished essays about skateboarding, riding horses, gardening, delivering mail, shooting baskets, cooking, record collecting, knitting, stitching, runn
- Author: Burch, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1957392258
- Language: English
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Essays One
$25.00 Add to cartA selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has calle- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758157
- Language: English
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A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays
What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these- Author: Noble, Randon Billings
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496217748
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays of the Century
$19.99 Add to cartThis singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists,… [more below]
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0618155872
- Language: English
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
$16.00 Read moreThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, … [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 141973511X
- Language: English
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Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
$19.00 Add to cartThe newest essay collection from the New York Times bestselling author John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years.
No one knows more about- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619467
- Language: English
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Little Virtues
$13.95 Add to cart“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the … [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1611457971
- Language: English
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
$24.07 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976730
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
$29.99 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry L
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0063043858
- Language: English
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Three Guineas: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$15.99 Add to cart“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
Setting out to answer the question “How are we to prevent war?” Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men mus- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0156901773
- Language: English
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The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
$24.95 Add to cart“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood, addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” –Kirkus
In The Hunger Book, Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish c- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Brewer, Agata Izabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258786
- Language: English
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Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada)
From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics” (Nylon), comes “a warmly- Author: Chew-Bose, Durga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 0374535957
- Language: English
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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
$22.00 Add to cartLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing,- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250132142
- Language: English
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The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including: Lev Grossman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lena Dunham, Jesmyn Ward, Yiyun Li, and Anthony Doerr
If you’re feelin- Author: Garrett, Natalie Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 194822660X
- Language: English
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
$18.00 Add to cartThis bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of American literature
When she died in 1964, Flannery O’Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1969
- ISBN10: 0374508046
- Language: English
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
$25.00 Add to cartFrom memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers i… [more below]
- Author: Williford, Lex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 11 2007
- ISBN10: 1416531742
- Language: English
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Anarchism and Other Essays
$14.00 Add to cartEmma Goldman, once considered “the most dangerous woman in America,” was a thinker so far ahead of her time that even to a modern reader, her views sound startlingly revolutionary. This collection of
- Author: Goldman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1609441133
- Language: English
