Essays
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S/He
$18.95 Add to cartIn this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As mem… [more below]
- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1944981764
- Language: English
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Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy, 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartFor porn stars, “coming out” is a process that never ends.
To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex workers have long fought
- Author: Lee, Jiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 155861334X
- Language: English
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Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover
$29.99 Add to cartA fun, sophisticated illustrated collection of essays that catalogs the simple and not so simple pleasures of the eclectic world of candy from the award-winning author of After the Eclipse. With illus
- Author: Perry, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063319926
- Language: English
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
$20.00 Add to cartChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, a- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338417
- Language: English
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Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue: The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction
$28.00 Add to cartThe very best writing from one of America’s most groundbreaking literary magazines.
When Creative Nonfiction debuted in 1994, the literary genre it championed was largely the target of skepticism or d
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368816
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2024
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris.
Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York Times critic, selects twenty-two
- Author: Morris, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063351552
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics
While the essays in thi- Author: Franzen, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422164
- Language: English
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Here, Now: Essays
$22.00 Read moreA deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss
In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that
- Author: Mirsky, Michelle Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 081014784X
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.
“This was the
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063333996
- Language: English
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
$17.99 Add to cart“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” –Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
From an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, acad
- Author: Stielstra, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0062429205
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$21.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Read more“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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The Book Against Death
$16.95 Add to cartThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death.
- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237990
- Language: English
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Missing Time: Essays
$16.00 Read moreOver the past few years, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. Missing Time collects five remarkable essays and … [more below]
- Author: Brostoff, Ari M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953813046
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Read moreBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers
$29.95 Read moreA collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half centur- Author: Wright, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245967
- Language: English
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When the Sick Rule the World
$17.95 Read moreA writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker’s wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Si
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351683
- Language: English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$12.95 Read moreA compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more
In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson’s prose- Series: Library of America
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1598530844
- Language: English
