Essays
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A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands
$24.95 Read moreA unique, unmistakable voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and histo
- Author: Gilb, Dagoberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366821
- Language: English
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Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight
$22.00 Add to cartAs a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosit… [more below]
- Author: Dasgupta, Sayantani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469681773
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 147678521X
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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Arguably: Essays
$22.99 Add to cart“Hitchens is an opportunity to be delighted or maddened–possibly both–but in any case, not to be missed…” –The New York Times
A stylish new paperback edition of ARGUABLY, a greatest hits collecti- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1455502782
- Language: English
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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
$16.95 Add to cartBefore embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew … [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493531
- Language: English
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
$17.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0848757467
- Language: English
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Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity
$19.95 Add to cartWhat happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US dip… [more below]
- Author: Dubrow, Jehanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365264
- Language: English
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Little Weirds
$29.00 Read moreOne of Vanity Fair’s Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate’s wild imagination in this “magical” (Mindy Kaling), “delicious” (Amy Sedaris), and “poignant” (John Mulaney) New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Slate, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0316485349
- Language: English
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The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth–and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eise… [more below]
- Series: Moth Presents #2
- Author: Burns, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904429
- Language: English
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The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays
$16.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.
In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Ch
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643517
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$20.00 Add to cartA NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine des
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457374
- Language: English
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With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
$28.00 Read more“Master craftsman” (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-ne… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096302
- Language: English
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Small Wonder: Essays
$18.99 Add to cartIn twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, an
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0060504080
- Language: English
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$18.95 Add to cartIn this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As mem… [more below]
- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1944981764
- Language: English
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S/He
$18.95 Add to cartIn this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As mem… [more below]
- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1944981764
- Language: English
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Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy, 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartFor porn stars, “coming out” is a process that never ends.
To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex workers have long fought
- Author: Lee, Jiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 155861334X
- Language: English
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Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover
$29.99 Add to cartA fun, sophisticated illustrated collection of essays that catalogs the simple and not so simple pleasures of the eclectic world of candy from the award-winning author of After the Eclipse. With illus
- Author: Perry, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063319926
- Language: English
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338417
- Language: English
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Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue: The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction
$28.00 Add to cartThe very best writing from one of America’s most groundbreaking literary magazines.
When Creative Nonfiction debuted in 1994, the literary genre it championed was largely the target of skepticism or d
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368816
- Language: English
