American essays - 21st century
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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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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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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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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
$17.95 Read moreRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with
- Author: McCarthy, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091479
- Language: English
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Bee Reaved
$17.95 Read moreA new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarrassment.
So. Much. Information. When does one expand?- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 163590157X
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
$16.95 Read moreIn Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesoth
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539504
- Language: English
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100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
$19.00 Read more100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl.
This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child c- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535671
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$32.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374607168
- Language: English
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My 1980s & Other Essays
$25.00 Add to cartWayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays on the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot.
W- Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533776
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2009
$14.95 Add to cartEdited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this “rich and thoughtful collection” (Publishers Weekly) offers the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless pub… [more below]
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0618982728
- Language: English
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Did Jesus Have a Cat?: And Other Observations from a Quirky Mind
$15.95 Add to cartConnie Pursell is an astute observer of life whose writings capture the eccentric, the quirky, and even the divine in everyday incidents. Inspired by the writings of Natalie Goldberg, David Sedaris, a… [more below]
- Author: Purcell, Connie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 098296787X
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2021
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz
“The world is abundant even in bad times,” guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Schulz, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358381754
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2019
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.
“Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about tw- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Atwan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1328465802
- Language: English
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Screen Tests: Stories and Other Writing
$19.99 Add to cartBook to Watch in 2019: The Millions, Nylon, Domino, Bustle, Book Riot, Buzzfeed, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness o
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062392042
- Language: English
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartBrilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by “one of America’s most daring and talented writers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review): Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace’s … [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0316182389
- Language: English
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The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
$24.95 Add to cartWithin the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls “hermit crab essays.” The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays tha
- Author: Adrian, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0803296762
- Language: English
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
$26.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063282267
- Language: English
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A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays
What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these- Author: Noble, Randon Billings
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496217748
- Language: English
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Student Voice: 100 Argument Essays by Teens on Issues That Matter to Them
$24.95 Add to cartIn this new collection of 100 essays curated by The New York Times, students will find mentor texts written by their peers–13-to-18-year-olds–on a wide range of topics, including social media, race,
- Author: Schulten, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0393714306
- Language: English
