Essays
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Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays
$24.99 Add to cartEavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey t
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074280
- Language: English
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How I Got This Way
$19.99 Add to cartPatrick McManus, the bestselling author of such hilarious books as A Fine and Pleasant Misery and Never Sniff a Gift Fish, now offers readers solid thoughts on the qualities that define leadership, be
- Author: McManus, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 080503482X
- Language: English
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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
$19.00 Add to cart“A brilliant collection…. Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive”. — The New York Times Book Review
Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this ind
- Author: Fraser, Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701125
- Language: English
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Forty-one False Starts
$24.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murd- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534586
- Language: English
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My 1980s & Other Essays
$25.00 Add to cartWayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays on the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot.
W- Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533776
- Language: English
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Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976
$18.99 Add to cartA wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.
Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0060921234
- Language: English
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The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings
$20.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke’s influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination
A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher A- Author: Locke, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 014313521X
- Language: English
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The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture
$26.95 Add to cartCollecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.
Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly stake… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1558613005
- Language: English
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The Essential Dick Gregory
$27.99 Read moreA soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062879200
- Language: English
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The Souls of Others
$17.00 Add to cartThe Souls of Others is a powerful essay collection by American Book Award winner Shann Ray. Ray depicts the American west as both magnificent and destitute. The mountains are alive. The people are gri
- Author: Ray, Shann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1956692002
- Language: English
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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
$30.00 Add to cartBest-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.
Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie.
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400792
- Language: English
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And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing
$18.95 Add to cartDebra Spark’s Curious Attractions remains a hugely popular fiction writing guide thirteen years after its publication. Now, she tackles the thorniest aspects of literary fiction craft: plot, humor, re
- Author: Spark, Debra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1938126467
- Language: English
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Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey
$24.00 Add to cartOne of The Guardian‘s Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend.
The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1609452925
- Language: English
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Speculation
$19.95 Read moreHow can the speculative imagination help us build a better world?
At a world-historical moment of global upheaval, speculative writing is enjoying a renaissance. This collection of poetry, stories, and
- Series: Boston Review / Forum
- Author: Pavlic, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1946511765
- Language: English
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The Adding Machine
$18.00 Add to cartSheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining.–Chicago Sun-Times
Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as possibly the only American writer of genius, William S. Burroughs has produc- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0802121950
- Language: English
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Just Before Dark
$18.99 Add to cartJim Harrison’s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 061800193X
- Language: English
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Roland Barthes
$16.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist’s most original work–a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to re
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0374251460
- Language: English
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The Nerves and Their Endings: Essays on Crisis and Response
$15.00 Read moreA timely and arresting collection of essays about the body, climate change, privilege, and environmental neurosis.
In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back agai
- Author: Gaitán Johannesson, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950354598
- Language: English
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Inter State: Essays from California
$16.95 Add to cartA “must read” debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer’s family and life (Los Angeles Ti… [more below]
- Author: Vadi, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1593766955
- Language: English
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Specimen Days
$11.95 Add to cart‘I obey my happy hour’s command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don’t do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.’
One of the best- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861389
- Language: English
