Essays
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after- Author: Glück, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537461
- Language: English
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
$20.00 Add to cartWalker Percy’s mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind’s tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to ch
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253990
- Language: English
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Ni de aquÃ, Ni de allá: A multi-perspective account of the Dominican diasporic experience.
$20.00 Add to cartNi de AquÃ, Ni de Allá is a fresh collection of diverse voices from the Dominican community that offers a balance of contemporary writers of multiple generations of the Dominican diaspora. The world
- Author: Writers Assoc, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0578543966
- Language: English
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Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books
$13.00 Add to cartA slim volume featuring Georges Perec’s writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about life
One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century,- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Perec, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 024147521X
- Language: English
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My Private Property
$18.00 Add to cart“Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has grown attracted to the other side. . . . She is not writing with a prescription, or at l
- Author: Ruefle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1940696518
- Language: English
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Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
$18.99 Add to cartA MARIE CLAIRE BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR – A USA TODAY MUST READ BOOK – A W MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – A SHEREADS BEST MEMOIR OF THE SUMMER
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays fr
- Author: Driver, Minnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 006311531X
- Language: English
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Crackpot: The Obsessions of
$18.99 Add to cartAn outrageous collection from the uniquely legendary John Waters, updated with new material–including Waters’s 2002 New York Times article, “Finally, Footlights on the Fat Girls.”
Crackpot, original- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0743246276
- Language: English
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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
$22.99 Add to cartExamining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this
- Author: Rich, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311627
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$12.95 Add to cartThis new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539022
- Language: English
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Letter to the Americans
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, … [more below]
- Author: Cocteau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231593
- Language: English
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
“The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant an
Winner, Massachusetts Book Award
A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 081425599X
- Language: English
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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing: Essays
$17.00 Add to cart“Ingenious out of necessity, A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing centers around the scapegoating and exile of the author by her mother. In these essays, Kimberly Grey harnesses her formidable intellectu… [more below]
- Author: Grey, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0892555750
- Language: English
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12 Bytes: How AI Will Change the Way We Live and Love
$18.00 Add to cartTwelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160360
- Language: English
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The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
$18.00 Read moreOver the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity’s continuing importance in contemporary culture. His incisive and arresting essays have examined the spiritual dime… [more below]
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1505114373
- Language: English
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On Solitude
$14.00 Add to cartFor the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin’s celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history’s most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and el… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0141399252
- Language: English
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The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
$19.99 Add to cartIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning a
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062432966
- Language: English
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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
$17.99 Add to cartNow includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco!
“The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unspari- Author: Kushner, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982157704
- Language: English
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays
$10.00 Add to cartA brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from “America’s greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living” (Chicago Tri… [more below]
- Series: Counterpoints
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1640094571
- Language: English
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Shoes for Lucy
$20.00 Add to cartLynne Kemen’s Shoes for Lucy is a beautiful and relatable collection of poems that explores a wide range of emotions. From grief to rediscovery, Kemen writes with a deft hand, creating vibrant and int
- Author: Kemen, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1736230646
- Language: English
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The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018
$20.00 Add to cartThe Earth Dies Streaming collects the best of A. S. Hamrah’s film writing for n+1, The Baffler, Bookforum, Harper’s, and other publications. Acerbic, insightful, hilarious, and damning, Hamrah’s aphor… [more below]
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1732294119
- Language: English
