Essays
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Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry
$29.95 Read moreA collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course
- Author: Getschow, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327878
- Language: English
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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
$18.99 Add to cart““Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America.”” –Publishers Weekly
“[These contributions] touch on so many differen
- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063095785
- Language: English
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
$28.00 Add to cart“Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. It’s always great to have an intersectional tome on hand.” –Amanda
- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25, 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134442
- Language: English
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On Thinking for Yourself: Instinct, Education, Dissension
$12.95 Read more“A great addition to the ongoing discourse around the value of perspective-taking, perfect for those hoping to elevate the approach to conversations about difficult subjects.” —Shelf Awareness
Seven e- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Flanagan, Caitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931402
- Language: English
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Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-Century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West
$16.95 Read moreInspirations for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West
** Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the dire- Author: Anderson, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1805330519
- Language: English
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The Empathy Exams: Essays
$18.00 Read moreFrom personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976719
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063043866
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartBeautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.
Celebrated, iconic, and- Series: Picador Modern Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250160650
- Language: English
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The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
$17.00 Read moreA memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and… [more below]
- Author: Hauser, Cj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0593312880
- Language: English
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A Man Without a Country
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today
In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incis- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2007
- ISBN10: 081297736X
- Language: English
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Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays
$25.00 Add to cartBorn Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave
- Author: Clark, John Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035366
- Language: English
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
$32.00 Read moreA career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452812
- Language: English
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Affinities: On Art and Fascination
$18.95 Read moreA meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain’s finest literary minds.
In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377268
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
$10.95 Add to cartThis volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant respo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955546X
- Language: English
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartPowerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still stru- Author: Wang, Esmé Weijun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978274
- Language: English
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Just Us: An American Conversation
$20.00 Read moreNow in paperback, Claudia Rankine’s “skyscraper in the literature on racism” (Christian Science Monitor)
In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary conversation about Whiteness in America- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450631
- Language: English
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The Book of Delights
$19.99 Add to cartAs Heard on NPR’s This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book that celebrates ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America’s most original and observant writers and the autho… [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1643753282
- Language: English
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
$24.99 Read moreA collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America–including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more–with a foreword by Jela
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0063017601
- Language: English
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Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
$17.00 Read moreTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW IN PAPERBACK
“Another hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh-out-loud f- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0593184920
- Language: English
