Essays
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Inciting Joy: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a “brilliant” intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Lim?n, U.S. poet laureate).
In these g- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643753959
- 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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An Eye For Joy
$19.95 Add to cartThis charming and eccentric little book invites readers to embrace the impulse to wonder, the practice of noticing, and the deep inclination toward joy no matter life s difficulties. Through short, sp… [more below]
- Author: Guilfoyle, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: November 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1961864398
- Language: English
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Bigger: Essays
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, this large-hearted personal essay collection by Ren Cedar Fuller invites us to imagine a more generous way of being in the world, drawing on Fuller’s … [more below]
- Series: Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize
- Author: Cedar Fuller, Ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1637681089
- Language: English
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Cape Cod
$19.00 Add to cartThoreau’s classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux
Cape Cod ch- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 319
- Publish Date: March 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140170022
- Language: English
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
$18.00 Add to cartIn these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 1997
- ISBN10: 0679768203
- Language: English
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Other People’s Mothers
$28.00 Add to cartA nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age
Relationships
story told through one young woman’s relationships with the mother figures in
her life
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fr- Author: Wade, Julie Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081149
- Language: English
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
How to Travel With a Sal
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 015600125X
- Language: English
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Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
$30.00 Add to cartAcclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles–earth, water, air and fire–exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness.
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- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162640142X
- Language: English
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
$29.00 Read moreThe first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and … [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668036371
- Language: English
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
$19.00 Read moreDiscover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclas… [more below]
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668095823
- Language: English
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Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment
$29.00 Read moreA collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh’s work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.
Wild Fictions b- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 022684532X
- Language: English
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most influential voices in disability activism comes an essay collection that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a vibran… [more below]
- Author: Hedva, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1638933537
- Language: English
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Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time.
“Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andr? Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile al
- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869393
- Language: English
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Driftless: An Anthology of Voices from Where We Live
$15.00 Add to cartDriftless: an Anthology of Voices from Where We Live brings together essays and poems that write about place through the lenses of family, love, work, home & un-homedness, welcome and exclusion, creat
- Author: Kubasta, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1967311765
- Language: English
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We’re Alone: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453533
- Language: English
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Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation
$17.95 Add to cartAn occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life.
In these essays by scholar and self-initiated witch Brooke Palmieri, occult history, the eternal now, and our magickal queer- Author: Palmieri, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902657
- Language: English
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Heretic: A Queer Revolt Against Evangelicalism, Empire, and the Lies We Are Sold
$18.99 Add to cartA memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful–in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortab
- Author: Kadlec, Jeanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 006348904X
- Language: English
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Dead and Alive: Essays
$32.00 Read moreA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays
In the past two decades, few writers have been able to master the craft and art of the essay in t- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168989
- Language: English
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
$24.00 Add to cartNaturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research,… [more below]
- Series: Great Circle Books
- Author: Pinto, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1469689790
- Language: English
