Literary Collections
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
$25.00 Add to cartNew York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered–all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, bu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Carpenter, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0812974255
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays “reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma” (The New York Times Book Review). “An infuriatingly gorgeous, important boo… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668085569
- Language: English
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
$18.99 Add to cartA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.
In her- Author: Rothfeld, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250849942
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Affronts
$7.95 Add to cartBaffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare’s most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sect… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Running Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0762453869
- Language: English
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From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
$27.95 Add to cartOn the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations–illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously pla… [more below]
- Author: Gorey, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379058
- Language: English
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Ten Indian Classics
$29.95 Add to cart2,500 years of India’s dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet.
Romantic ghazals and devotional quatrains, medieval ba- Series: Murty Classical Library of India
- Author: India, Murty Classical Library of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674297148
- Language: English
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
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Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader
$24.95 Add to cartAn anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.
Includes twenty-five b- Author: Halasa, Malu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214458
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$12.00 Add to cartVirginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.
In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688635
- Language: English
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The Art of the Myth: Maine Essays
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is it like to train as a whitewater guide? What special skills do you need to forage for fiddlehead ferns? What do a handful of Maine auction houses have in common? Why did a village suddenly for
- Author: Burke, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$25.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin’s most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Part of the Beacon Classics series Originally p- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 080701897X
- Language: English
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Points of Tangency: Essays
$24.95 Add to cartWithin the pages of Points of Tangency, a sequence of brilliant personal essays, Scott Russell Morris, a closeted queer Mormon, tells the story of meeting and then marrying his now wife. His story, to
- Author: Morris, Scott Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329502
- Language: English
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Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard
$19.95 Add to cartWise, visceral essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer, neurodivergent trauma-resolution guide Jessica Graham
In an unapologetic look at living- Author: Graham, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Commonweal Interviews: Conversations with Artists, Activists, Theologians, and Other Fascinating Figures from the Magazine’s First 100 Years
$16.95 Add to cartSince its founding in 1924, Commonweal magazine has published scores of conversations with artists, activists, theologians, and other fascinating figures, from French philosopher Jacques Maritain and
- Author: Preziosi, Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation
$19.95 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic literary exploration of extinction and conservation, inspired by the latest scientific research
Creature Needs is a polyvocal call to arms about animal extinction and habitat loss that- Author: Kondrich, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918316
- Language: English
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Low: Notes on Art & Trash
$17.95 Add to cartRaised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance-
- Author: Johnson, Jaydra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987589076
- Language: English
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
$26.99 Add to cartA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original f… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593581342
- Language: English
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
$27.00 Add to cartJ.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplis- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 014311378X
- Language: English
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A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
$16.95 Add to cartA blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist
“At thirty-seven years old I can say Shene- Author: Golding, Shenequa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016063
- Language: English
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
$16.99 Add to cartA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland
By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like no
- Author: So, Anthony Veasna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063049945
- Language: English
