Essays

  • Danse Macabre

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    Before 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
  • Baldwin, Styron, and Me

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    An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.

    In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g

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  • No Sense in Wishing: Essays

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    “Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I’ve ever read.” –Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir

    An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a person

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    • Author: Burney, Lawrence
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668051850
    • Language: English
  • Anarchism and Other Essays

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    A true classic of radical literature, in its first scholarly, annotated edition.

    Emma Goldman, the “notorious anarchist” deported from the United States in 1919 for “seditious activities,” was a leadin

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    • Series: Working Classics #5
    • Author: Goldman, Emma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1849355681
    • Language: English
  • A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light

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    A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig–edited by Eleanor[more below]

    • Author: Brown, Eleanor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 0399574476
    • Language: English
  • Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong

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    From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is

    “Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different:

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    • Author: King, Rax
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: July 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593688457
    • Language: English
  • The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

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    The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism–some neve

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    • Author: Harrison, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 080215722X
    • Language: English
  • Notes to John

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    An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

    In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a

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    • Author: Didion, Joan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798217171064
    • Language: English
  • The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays

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    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.

    “For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around

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    • Author: Daum, Meghan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: April 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1912559684
    • Language: English
  • Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West

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    A herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly

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    • Author: Mathison, Neil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: March 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0826367461
    • Language: English
  • Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West

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    In these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultu

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    • Author: Sundeen, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 082636764X
    • Language: English
  • Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays

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    Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, a… [more below]

    • Series: American Lives
    • Author: Moore, Bailey Gaylin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 226
    • Publish Date: March 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1496241932
    • Language: English
  • Fugitive Tilts: Essays

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    Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.

    In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns

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    • Author: Hutchinson, Ishion
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: April 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0374600511
    • Language: English
  • Like Love: Essays and Conversations

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    A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists

    Like Love
    is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These

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    • Author: Nelson, Maggie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1644453363
    • Language: English
  • I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays

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    A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman–an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the po

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    • Author: Kreizman, Maris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 0063305828
    • Language: English
  • I’ve Tried Being Nice: Essays

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    New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.

    Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary

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    • Author: Leary, Ann
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 04 2024
    • ISBN10: 1982120347
    • Language: English
  • The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime Ne[more below]

    • Author: Trillin, Calvin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593596463
    • Language: English
  • Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth

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    Water Bodies consider what becomes endangered when we lose sight of the power of water.


    The human experience has always been shaped by water, by its absence and its abundance. Now, as the climate cris

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    • Author: Paskus, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798890920072
    • Language: English
  • Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life

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    • Author: Carpenter, Nora Shalaway
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961853078
    • Language: English
  • Things in Nature Merely Grow

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    Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.

    “There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.

    “There is no go

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    • Author: Li, Yiyun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 0374617317
    • Language: English