Essays
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
$28.99 Read moreA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland
By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like no
- Author: So, Anthony Veasna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063049961
- Language: English
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “From The New Yorker‘s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality tel
- Author: Tolentino, Jia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510567
- Language: English
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Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life
$26.99 Read moreA giftable collection of essays from celebrity contributors celebrating the great work of teachers or a teacher they admire, curated by ABC News journalist Deborah Roberts. Contributors include Oprah … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1368095054
- Language: English
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
$28.00 Read moreA literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.
Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges,- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 037460360X
- Language: English
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Little Weirds
$18.99 Add to cartStep into Jenny Slate’s wild imagination in this “magical” (Mindy Kaling), “delicious” (Amy Sedaris), and “poignant” (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive —… [more below]
- Author: Slate, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 24, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316485365
- Language: English
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Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
$18.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today
From the earliest computers to the smartphones in our pockets, video games have been on our screens and- Author: Machado, Carmen Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452618
- Language: English
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
$25.00 Add to cart“Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” –NPR
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction–a collection of essays about the natural world,
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1571313656
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.
“What’s most compelling about a sc
- Series: Best American
- Author: Zimmer, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063293218
- Language: English
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Citizen: An American Lyric
$22.00 Add to cart* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 07, 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976905
- Language: English
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
$17.99 Add to cartPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
” Lorde’s] works will be impo- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580911862
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2023
$18.99 Add to cartIn her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by wa
- Series: Best American
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063288842
- Language: English
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Upstream: Selected Essays
$18.00 Add to cartOne of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year
The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There’s hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn’t f- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 0143130080
- Language: English
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The White Album
$18.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1979, Joan Didion’s The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.
Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era–including Charles Manson, the- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0374532079
- Language: English
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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
$28.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies wor
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160506
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartCelebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collecti
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28, 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531382
- Language: English
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
$30.00 Read moreFrom beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.
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- Author: Gay, Roxane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063341468
- Language: English
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
$30.00 Add to cartChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, a- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0374603456
- Language: English
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The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
$28.00 Add to cart**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, and St. Louis Public Radio**
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753096
- Language: English
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The Legible Element: essays
$19.99 Add to cart“Imagine finding that message in a bottle you always dreamed about.” So writes Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters, about poet and essayist Ralph Sneeden’s new book The Legible Element.
Although a memoi
- Author: Sneeden, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1958094285
- Language: English
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Revelation at the Food Bank
$21.95 Add to cartThese powerful essays share critical moments of a writer’s life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching … [more below]
- Author: Gerber, Merrill Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: December 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1952386705
- Language: English
