Essays
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Are Women Human?
$13.99 Add to cartIntroduction by Mary McDermott Shideler
One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to b- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802829961
- Language: English
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Index Cards: Selected Essays
$17.95 Read moreIn these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter–with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book–and links that subjec… [more below]
- Author: Davey, Moyra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229513
- Language: English
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On Being Ill: With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
$16.00 Add to cartWith magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptions
This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mothe… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1930464134
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$32.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374607168
- Language: English
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Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood
$26.95 Add to cartThe intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essay… [more below]
- Author: Davey, Moyra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1583220720
- Language: English
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
$17.00 Read moreA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and t
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159869
- Language: English
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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
$16.95 Read moreA kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within–and against–expectations of race, gender, health, and ability
Bodies are- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221311
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
$19.99 Read moreInstant New York Times Bestseller
“Truly, there’s no shame in taking a break from books during the pandemic. But if you’re feeling ready to reach out, try starting with Goodbye, Again. Take my word fo
- Author: Sun, Jonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062880853
- Language: English
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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
$17.00 Add to cartAn irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gl… [more below]
- Author: King, Rax
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593312724
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time in Florida: Stories of Life in the Land of Promises
$45.00 Add to cartFlorida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida Nonfiction
Curated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and alway
- Author: Levine, Jacki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987660805
- Language: English
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On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics
$12.95 Read moreAn investigation of misinformation and fracturing in contemporary American political culture. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Garber, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930627
- Language: English
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I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
$26.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller, I’ll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.
Longlisted for the P
- Author: Klein, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0062981595
- Language: English
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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
$26.00 Read moreWinner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
An Indie Next Selection for September 2021
A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 20- Author: Renkl, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 157131184X
- Language: English
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
$17.00 Add to cartPerfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned a- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527229
- Language: English
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On Bts: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity
$12.95 Read moreA love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from t
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Cruz, Lenika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930643
- Language: English
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Little Labors
$13.95 Add to cartIn this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers–Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop
- Author: Galchen, Rivka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0811222969
- Language: English
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I Want to Start by Saying
$18.00 Read moreSamuel Ace’s I want to start by saying is a constellation of memory, personal and place-based histories, dailiness, repetition, art-making, and desire. Ace’s insistent titular phrase acts as drone and… [more below]
- Author: Ace, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989708406
- Language: English
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
$9.99 Add to cartCivil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau’s most important essays. Contained in this volume are the following essays: Civil Disobedience, Natural History of Ma… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961032
- Language: English
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An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays
$20.00 Read moreFrom a “brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro” (Booklist), a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and criticism
Again, today, if I must choose between love and memory, I choose memory. What would you risk- Author: Ives, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1644453118
- Language: English
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Miss Southeast: Essays
$24.00 Read moreA collection of narrative essays on femininity, sexuality, community, and belonging
Miss Southeast explores the strange, often contradictory cultural circumstances of being queer and female in the Amer
- Author: Rogers, Elizabeth Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0810147726
- Language: English
