Essays
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Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
$23.99 Add to cartOur politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor (“Ode to Nap
- Author: Parker, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091630
- Language: English
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of … [more below]
- Author: Painter, Nell Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0385548907
- Language: English
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My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
$19.00 Add to cartKincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.
The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthol- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250908221
- Language: English
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Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man’s Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
$28.99 Read moreFor readers of Kiese Laymon‘s Heavy and Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be
Growing up in the Bronx, Jo- Author: Leon, Joél
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1250887100
- Language: English
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Governing by Fake News: 30 Years of Fake News in the West
$26.99 Add to cartWhat are the facts that the Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our demo… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 2315010713
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$6.99 Read moreThe ULTIMATE, complete collection of the original Mowgli stories!
This collection of stories features Mowgli, a young boy who lives amongst the wildlife of the jungle. From being tracked and hunted by- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1944686320
- Language: English
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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
$19.95 Add to cartInspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read a… [more below]
- Author: Holten, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030787
- Language: English
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I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I’m Going to Anyway)
$29.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“I could not put this book down. It’s so funny” -Ru Paul
“I LOVE this book for its honesty and dark (and light!) comedy” -Rachel Dratch (Instagram)
“It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intim… [more below]
- Author: Devantez, Chelsea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1335455078
- Language: English
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Joyful Recollections of Trauma
$29.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLIST
AN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST
“Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfe
- Author: Scheer, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293714
- Language: English
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Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale
$13.95 Add to cartReading the Room is Paul Yamazaki’s love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.
Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Bo- Author: Yamazaki, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1958846694
- Language: English
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Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood
$32.00 Add to cartAn intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.
Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock rob- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0374617376
- Language: English
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Returning to My Father’s Kitchen: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartA young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father
Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos d- Author: Macansantos, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810148390
- Language: English
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The Outermost House: a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$11.95 Add to cartLong hailed as a classic of American nature writing, Henry Beston’s eloquent chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overl… [more below]
- Author: Beston, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1962572293
- Language: English
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War Is a Racket (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$7.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Maverick Marine” and “Fighting Hell-Devil,” Brigadier General Smedley Darlington was the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer in U.S. military history. Butler’s 1935 lecture “War is
- Author: Butler, Smedley Darlington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: December 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1965684165
- Language: English
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I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: … [more below]
- Author: Avery, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000560
- Language: English
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Wallflower at the Orgy
$21.00 Add to cartA bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pastimes–from one of the most creative minds of our time.
“Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody els- Author: Ephron, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0553385054
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Doctor
$16.99 Add to cartHighly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work. A timeless collection by the… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Selzer, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0156003996
- Language: English
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Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing
$19.95 Add to cartWhy should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
In Permanent Red, John Berg- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298476
- Language: English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
$29.95 Add to cartBack in a new compact edition, this field guide to our new world of hybrid specimens–gorgeously printed in silver ink on black paper–catalogs the conflation of the technosphere and the biosphere
Plas
- Author: Nova, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404188
- Language: English
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Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species
$22.00 Add to cartWhat can octopuses’ nine brains teach us about climate resilience? How can great horned owls’ keen hearing illuminate relationship dynamics? Does playing with kelp cultivate respect for the value of
- Series: Wardlaw Books
- Author: Lyons, Bridget A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1648432875
- Language: English
