Essays
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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
$28.00 Add to cartThe first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism–some nev
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157211
- Language: English
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
$19.00 Add to cartThe poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708421
- Language: English
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A Collection of Essays
$18.99 Add to cartA clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the “conscience of his generation” and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentie
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 21, 1970
- ISBN10: 0156186004
- Language: English
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The Things Trees Know
$9.95 Read moreFind inspiration and comfort through short but insightful text, paired with simple nature illustrations.
Trees have bared witness to so much and have weathered so many storms. For best-selling author
- Series: Wisdom of Nature
- Author: Wood, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: September 7, 2005
- ISBN10: 1591931304
- Language: English
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
$18.00 Add to cartCamera Lucida, Roland Barthes’s personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book he published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to th
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532338
- Language: English
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Here is New York
$18.95 Add to cartPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times ha… [more below]
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1892145022
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$24.00 Read moreNan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, po
- Series: Canons #6
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1786897350
- Language: English
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThe essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chapli… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033070
- Language: English
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
$20.00 Add to cart“One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and search
- Author: Hunt, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863082
- Language: English
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The Practice of the Wild: Essays
$16.95 Read moreA collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force.
With thoughts ranging from poli- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1640094210
- Language: English
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The Plague: Living Death in Our Times
$27.00 Read moreA slim, heart-wrenching, and rousing new book from the leading feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.
In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of The Plague,- Author: Rose, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 037461086X
- Language: English
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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods
$8.00 Add to cartNature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to “live deliberately, to front only th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284956
- Language: English
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South and West: From a Notebook
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest … her acute observations of the country’s … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525434194
- Language: English
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How to Read Now: Essays
$28.00 Add to cart“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our burie
- Author: Castillo, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593489632
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$17.00 Read moreIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shoc
- Series: Canons #6
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 0857861832
- Language: English
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Letters to a Writer of Color
$17.00 Add to cartA vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that hav… [more below]
- Author: Anappara, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 059344941X
- Language: English
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
$12.00 Read moreThe ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars
“Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: May 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0300110081
- Language: English
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The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century
$18.95 Add to cartONE OF LIT HUB‘S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 – ESQUIRE‘s August 2023 Book Club Pick
“If books are important to you because you’re a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 177196541X
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2022
$17.99 Read moreA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.
Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands
- Series: Best American
- Author: Chee, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 035865887X
- Language: English
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Dark Days: Fugitive Essays
$26.00 Read more* WINNER OF THE 2024 GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION *
A crucial book that calls for community, solidarity, and joy, even in–especially in–these dark days In his debut work of nonfict- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452413
- Language: English
