Essays
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The Best American Essays 2024
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris.
Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York Times critic, selects twenty-two
- Author: Morris, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063351552
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics
While the essays in thi- Author: Franzen, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422164
- Language: English
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Here, Now: Essays
$22.00 Read moreA deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss
In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that
- Author: Mirsky, Michelle Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 081014784X
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.
“This was the
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063333996
- Language: English
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
$17.99 Add to cart“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” –Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
From an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, acad
- Author: Stielstra, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0062429205
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$19.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Add to cart“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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The Book Against Death
$16.95 Add to cartThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death.
- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237990
- Language: English
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Missing Time: Essays
$16.00 Read moreOver the past few years, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. Missing Time collects five remarkable essays and … [more below]
- Author: Brostoff, Ari M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953813046
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Add to cartBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers
$29.95 Read moreA collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half centur- Author: Wright, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245967
- Language: English
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When the Sick Rule the World
$17.95 Read moreA writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker’s wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Si
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351683
- Language: English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$12.95 Read moreA compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more
In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson’s prose- Series: Library of America
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1598530844
- Language: English
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Limber
$17.95 Read more“What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps,
- Author: Pelster, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936747758
- Language: English
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Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
$16.95 Add to cartJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood … [more below]
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229327
- Language: English
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The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
$17.00 Read moreTeeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel ﾁlvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in L
- Author: Álvarez, Carlos Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450909
- Language: English
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Sunshine State: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Gerard, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006243487X
- Language: English
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
$18.95 Read moreThe PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: “Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious.”–The A.V. Club
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcohol
- Author: Tea, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1936932180
- Language: English
