Essays
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The Ways of Paradise
$19.95 Read moreIn his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Swede
- Author: Cornell, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804271063
- Language: English
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-
$30.00 Add to cartMy ignorance was on my side. I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.
This collection of J- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374613230
- Language: English
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Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet
$18.99 Add to cart“McNeil’s deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It’s captivating stuff.” Publishers Weekly
“Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait
- Author: McNeil, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 190995411X
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays “reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma” (The New York Times Book Review). “An infuriatingly gorgeous, important boo… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668085569
- Language: English
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
$18.99 Add to cartA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.
In her- Author: Rothfeld, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250849942
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Affronts
$7.95 Read moreBaffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare’s most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sect… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Running Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0762453869
- Language: English
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The Art of the Myth: Maine Essays
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is it like to train as a whitewater guide? What special skills do you need to forage for fiddlehead ferns? What do a handful of Maine auction houses have in common? Why did a village suddenly for
- Author: Burke, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Low: Notes on Art & Trash
$17.95 Add to cartRaised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance-
- Author: Johnson, Jaydra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987589076
- Language: English
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
$26.99 Add to cartA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original f… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593581342
- Language: English
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
$24.00 Add to cartJ.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplis- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 014311378X
- Language: English
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
$16.99 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063049945
- Language: English
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
$17.00 Add to cartNow with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a funny and irreverent study of class and status by the master of New Journalism.
Tom Wolfe’s two-ac- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321883
- Language: English
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York
$29.99 Add to cartFrom legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.
“Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063392186
- Language: English
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
$29.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.
THE EARLY 20
- Author: Shade, Colette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063333945
- Language: English
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Bluets
$20.00 Read moreSince 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human–via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical … [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1940696909
- Language: English
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
$10.95 Add to cartInspired by Voltaire’s two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have pla… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 019955532X
- Language: English
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Memory Serves: Oratories
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed ov
- Series: Writer as Critic #13
- Author: Maracle, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1926455444
- Language: English
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
$15.95 Add to cartNational Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction
“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Repu… [more below]- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469468
- Language: English
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Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
$21.95 Add to cartNonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology’s title is from Lucille Clifton’s luminous poem, “won’t you celebr… [more below]
- Series: Flash Nonfiction
- Author: Gee, Darien Hsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1949116697
- Language: English
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Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook
$19.95 Read moreSonya Huber, author of the award-winning Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System, offers a candid, lyrical look inside the unsung world of exurban Illinois.
New Lenox, Illino… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1953368581
- Language: English
