Essays
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The Essays of Leonard Michaels
$18.00 Add to cartLeonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in the New York of
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532265
- Language: English
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At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
$20.00 Add to cartIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay–a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniatu
- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531315
- Language: English
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Quiet Places
$19.00 Add to cartA career-spanning collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English
Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke’s forays into the border- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862965
- Language: English
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The Visible Unseen: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartAndrea Chapela, one of Granta‘s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the pro… [more below]
- Author: Chapela, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1632063522
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Space
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Night, Sleep, Death and the Stars by Lauren Groff・The Unive
- Series: Passenger #11
- Author: Passenger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 178770419X
- Language: English
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This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home
$16.99 Read moreA thought-provoking collection of personal essays about home
What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In- Author: Kahn, Margot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1580056687
- Language: English
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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism
$15.95 Add to cartFrom medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting
- Author: Glanville, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064544
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$9.95 Add to cartIn Studies in American Literature, D. H. Lawrence’s brilliance as both a writer and a critic shimmers with energy and originality. His thought-provoking look at canonized American literature is a bra… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891855
- Language: English
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Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: The Making of the American West
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant…. [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0805062963
- Language: English
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Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment
$16.00 Add to cartRenowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett’s criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his work.
- Series: Beckett, Samuel
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 1995
- ISBN10: 0802151299
- Language: English
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Impossible Owls: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.
One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar‘s Best Books of 2018. Named one- Author: Phillips, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0374175330
- Language: English
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Writing in the Dark
$19.00 Add to cartProfound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country’s most respected and best-loved voices
Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation b- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 031242860X
- Language: English
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The Charles Bowden Reader
$29.95 Add to cart“I will make bold to say that Bowden is America’s most alarming writer. Just when you think you’ve heard it all you learn you haven’t in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles Bowden
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 311
- Publish Date: September 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0292721986
- Language: English
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The Life of Images: Selected Prose
$18.99 Add to cart“Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, Simic] retains an outsider’s perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary–all excellent qualities for an essayist. There
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062364731
- Language: English
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Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe year is 1989 and Mark Doty’s life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor and, perhaps most… [more below]
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060928050
- Language: English
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This Wide Terraqueous World
$16.95 Read moreHaunting essays from acclaimed author Laird Hunt balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life.
In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird- Author: Hunt, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1566896673
- Language: English
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Dear Damage
$16.95 Read moreA harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream.
Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer’s grandmot
- Series: Kentucky Literature
- Author: Farmer, Ashley Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1946448907
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2021
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz
“The world is abundant even in bad times,” guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Schulz, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358381754
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2019
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.
“Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about tw- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Atwan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1328465802
- Language: English
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Book of My Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man’s life is about America- Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250043549
- Language: English
