Essays
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The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the fall of 2020, as the pandemic raged around the globe, Zito Madu traveled to Venice for a writing fellowship. There, he found a deserted, silent, but still beautiful city, “one of those extraord… [more below]
- Author: Madu, Zito
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368662
- Language: English
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A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays
$17.95 Read moreA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life–movies and a
- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377780
- Language: English
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These Precious Days: Essays
$28.99 Add to cartThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.
“The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and invitin
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063092786
- Language: English
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El Mito de SÃsifo / The Myth of Sisyphus
$13.95 Read more«No hay sino un problema filos?fico realmente serio: el suicidio.
El mito de S?sifo es el ensayo fundacional de la filosof?a del absurdo, una obra may?scula que dio a conocer el gran talento de- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 8466356142
- Language: Spanish
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth
- Series: Best American
- Author: Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0358615291
- Language: English
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Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist
$19.95 Read moreNever watch The Exorcist, Marlena Williams’s mother told her, just as she’d been told by her own mother as a Catholic teen in rural Oregon when the horror classic premiered. And like her mother, Mary,… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Williams, Marlena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 081425876X
- Language: English
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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
$18.95 Read more“Genuine, unrestrained musings, both political and personal, on life as a Black woman in contemporary America…A highly rewarding, commiserating nod as well as an astute rallying cry.”–KIRKUS (starr
- Author: McLarin, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1632461587
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition): Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic–and occasional misery–of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic… [more below]
- Author: Botton, Sari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675681
- Language: English
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American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion
$19.95 Add to cartFifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Valeria Luiselli, Kao Kalia Yang, and more, with a foreword b
- Author: Caligiuri, Zeke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1566896959
- Language: English
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my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches through the lens of Baltimore’s Black Butterfly
$28.99 Add to cartIn 2017, Dr. Kaye began a three-year in-depth ethnographic study within Baltimore’s Black Butterfly neighborhoods, documenting and recording the community stories.
In “you tell them that we’re not inv
- Author: Whitehead, Karsonya Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204873
- Language: English
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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
$0.00 Read moreA collection of the New Yorker critic’s finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world.
Joan Acocella was “one of our finest cultural critics” (Edward Hirsch), and she had the- Author: Acocella, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 0374608091
- Language: English
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
$22.95 Read more“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”–Washington Post
Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides link- Series: Nonpareil Books #10
- Author: Davenport, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927777
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.
“One of the fo
- Author: Alderton, Dolly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: 14-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 0063319136
- Language: English
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What My Mother and I Don’t Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
$18.99 Add to cart“You will devour these beautifully written–and very important–tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from f… [more below]
- Author: Filgate, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1982107359
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$17.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452022
- Language: English
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How to Draw a Novel
$20.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don’t Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and forme
- Author: Solares, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0802159303
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist
$10.00 Add to cartA call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. – “To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act … [more below]
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1984897381
- Language: English
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Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.
Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, … [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 22-Oct-19
- ISBN10: 0358212103
- Language: English
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Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?
$16.95 Read moreIn this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb.
I- Author: Zimmerman, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1797217577
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
$19.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant selection of essays–including three new pieces–the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and un… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314077
- Language: English
