Essays
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Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Irrealis mood- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829283
- Language: English
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A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song
$18.95 Read moreSimilar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers’ minds.
A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic- Author: Forhan, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1732610363
- Language: English
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For the Time Being
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a “beautifully written and delightfully strange” (Daily… [more below]
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703470
- Language: English
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Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils
$24.95 Read moreAt the intersection of 1980s pop culture, the Cold War, and the trials of coming of age sits Melt with Me. Paul Crenshaw takes up a range of topics from Star Wars to video games, Choose Your Own Adven… [more below]
- Author: Crenshaw, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258824
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Ecstasy: Issue One
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]
- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619006
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$24.95 Read moreThe first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick’s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1681371545
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world.
Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619014
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings & Cartoons of Dr. Seuss
$14.95 Add to cartBefore his worldwide fame as a bestselling children’s author, Theodor Seuss Geisel was a prolific writer and cartoonist for humor magazines of the early twentieth century. The creator of Green Eggs an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: December 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0486498468
- Language: English
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Just Us: An American Conversation
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increas- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450216
- Language: English
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The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics
$14.95 Read moreBest-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing com… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0829439064
- Language: English
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Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
$23.00 Read moreA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has be- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858828
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreGraywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter
As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiri- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975089
- Language: English
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Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its
- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978231
- Language: English
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Walden and Other Writings
$5.95 Add to cartWith their call for “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity “, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in al… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 055321246X
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
$30.00 Read moreIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on ev… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 038554748X
- Language: English
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100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
$19.00 Read more100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl.
This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child c- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535671
- Language: English
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Desire and Fate
$24.00 Add to cartAt a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff’s essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire… [more below]
- Author: Rieff, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1912475383
- Language: English
