Essays
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
$19.99 Add to cartThese widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest — on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more — established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0316925284
- Language: English
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
$17.99 Add to cartPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
” Lorde’s] works will be impo- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580911862
- Language: English
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Danse Macabre
$21.00 Add to cartBefore he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular cult… [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1439170983
- Language: English
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Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
$30.00 Read moreA treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist, and his boisterous brother Malachy, publishing on the 30th anniversary of Angela’s Ashes, with a
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1419790986
- Language: English
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Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye from award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller.
In Love You, Bye, award-winning author Brenda
- Author: Miller, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1558969756
- Language: English
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Light Falls on Everything: A Daughter’s Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility
$24.00 Add to cartMy father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here.
To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanaha
- Author: McClanahan, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1469693216
- Language: English
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The Big Book of the Dead
$16.95 Read moreMarion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death.
At last, Winik’s critically acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of- Author: Winik, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092536
- Language: English
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Carrie Revisited: The Legacy of Stephen King’s Girl with a Frightening Power
$19.99 Add to cartREVISED AND EXPANDED!
Carrie Revisited: The Legacy of Stephen King’s Girl with a Frightening Power is a remarkable anthology featuring essays from a distinguished group of writers offering their unique
- Author: Freeman, Brian James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1941971717
- Language: English
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and c… [more below]
- Author: Vara, Vauhini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 059368785X
- Language: English
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The Bottom of the Harbor
$29.00 Add to cartA classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker‘s most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593594959
- Language: English
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Nothing at All
$17.95 Add to cartAn atmospheric rumination on gendered violence, cosmic collapse, and colonialism.
From deep inside a black hole, comes Nothing at All–the space where everything collapses: form, genre, gender, and be… [more below]
- Author: Tapiero, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1643622986
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake
$23.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for well
- Author: McLane, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 9798890920096
- Language: English
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Triage
$28.00 Read moreA groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just Us
Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying work- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1644454009
- Language: English
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
$18.95 Read moreAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Watervi… [more below]
- Author: Calder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143470
- Language: English
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
$19.00 Add to cartThe most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column–including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garc… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0593137043
- Language: English
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Trans Central Station
$9.99 Read more‘No, I was not trapped in the wrong body. I was trapped in the wrong universe. In order to become who I was, I had to break the world open.’
Trans Central Station reflects on a trans life lived before… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1068240997
- Language: English
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope
$28.95 Add to cartThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Kinney, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820377236
- Language: English
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Ways of Telling
$18.95 Add to cart“Ways of Telling isn’t like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing.”–Margaret Atwood
“Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally origi- Author: Bingley, Xandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1912559897
- Language: English
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Little Weirds
$29.00 Add to cartOne 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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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West
$19.95 Add to cartA lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project.
Ty Bannerman’s family came to Los Alamos in 1952- Author: Bannerman, Ty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369022
- Language: English
