Essays
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
$14.95 Add to cartA masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature–part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening
Bashō (1644-1694)–a great luminary o- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806895
- Language: English
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Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from
- Series: Norwegian Literature
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1628971096
- Language: English
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Too Much of Life: The Complete Cr?nicas
$29.95 Add to cartThe things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when … [more below]
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811226794
- Language: English
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The Book
$20.00 Add to cartFollowing the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.
True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle… [more below]
- Author: Ruefle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891060043
- Language: English
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The Star Thrower
$27.95 Add to cartA collection of the author’s favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley’s entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, a… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0156849097
- Language: English
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me
$17.95 Add to cartAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.
In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #52
- Author: Abdelmoumen, M?likah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966262
- Language: English
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No Sense in Wishing: Essays
$29.99 Add to cart“Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I’ve ever read.” –Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir
An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a person- Author: Burney, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668051850
- Language: English
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Anarchism and Other Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA true classic of radical literature, in its first scholarly, annotated edition.
Emma Goldman, the “notorious anarchist” deported from the United States in 1919 for “seditious activities,” was a leadin
- Series: Working Classics #5
- Author: Goldman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1849355681
- Language: English
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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light
$22.00 Add to cartA collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig–edited by Eleanor… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0399574476
- Language: English
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Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is
“Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different:- Author: King, Rax
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688457
- Language: English
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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
$18.00 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 neve
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 080215722X
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$34.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217171064
- Language: English
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.
“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559684
- Language: English
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Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West
$19.95 Add to cartA herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly
- Author: Mathison, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0826367461
- Language: English
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Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West
$21.95 Read moreIn these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultu
- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 082636764X
- Language: English
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Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays
$21.95 Add to cartUrgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, a… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Moore, Bailey Gaylin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496241932
- Language: English
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Fugitive Tilts: Essays
$33.00 Add to cartIshion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.
In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns- Author: Hutchinson, Ishion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600511
- Language: English
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
$20.00 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453363
- Language: English
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I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
$26.99 Add to cartA debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman–an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the po
- Author: Kreizman, Maris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063305828
- Language: English
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I’ve Tried Being Nice: Essays
$28.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary- Author: Leary, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1982120347
- Language: English
