Essays
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
$18.99 Add to cart“There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature,” raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her criti… [more below]
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0060927569
- Language: English
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Unbearable Splendor
$17.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Believer Poetry Award
“[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.”-
- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1566894514
- Language: English
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Socialist Realism
$18.00 Add to cartMoving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Low, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895510
- Language: English
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Best of Myles
$15.95 Add to cartThe great Irish humorist and writer Flann O’Brien, aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen, also wrote a newspaper column called “Cruiskeen Lawn.” The Best of Myles collects the best and funniest, co… [more below]
- Series: John F. Byrne Irish Literature
- Author: O’Brien, Flann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1564782158
- Language: English
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Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction
$15.95 Add to cartThe late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form… [more below]
- Author: Kitchen, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350991
- Language: English
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Burn This Book
$16.99 Add to cartPublished in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0061774014
- Language: English
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
$16.95 Read moreThe essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1582434840
- Language: English
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Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
$20.00 Read moreGutenberg’s invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persiste
- Author: Miller, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1571313540
- Language: English
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Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
$18.99 Add to cartA searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.
Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collect- Author: Walker, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1501154338
- Language: English
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Writing While Parenting
$23.95 Add to cartBen Berman’s Writing While Parenting explores what it means to pursue a creative passion alongside raising a family, how having children can make a parent both more vulnerable and more adventurous as
- Author: Berman, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1773491113
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
$26.00 Read moreA warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals in our lives, from a spectrum of talented creators
What is your most poignant memory surrounding foo- Author: Mamet, Zosia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0143137298
- Language: English
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Spirit Things
$20.95 Add to cartA collection of essays that evoke an adventurous spirit and the craving for myth, Spirit Things examines the hidden meanings of objects found on a fishing boat, as seen through the eyes of a child. Au… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Messersmith-Glavin, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1602234558
- Language: English
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The Common Reader
$19.99 Add to cartWoolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with a… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 015602778X
- Language: English
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It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability
$18.00 Add to cartWith equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio’s It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability explores what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary cult
- Author: Davio, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941960065
- Language: English
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People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living
$28.00 Read moreA riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism–only to end up living comfortably alongside it
What do post-work politics, t- Author: Olds, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0316565717
- Language: English
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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
$16.95 Read moreSomething is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational,
- Author: Jones, Mary Paumier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393314928
- Language: English
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The Poetics of Wrongness
$22.00 Read moreFirst work of critical non-fiction from Bagley Wright Lecturer and Commonplace podcast host Rachel Zucker.
In her first book of critical non-fiction, The Poetics of Wrongness, poet Rachel Zucker explo
- Author: Zucker, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268705
- Language: English
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More to Say: Essays and Appreciations
$17.95 Read more“Earnest, amusing, and contemplative….though Beattie is known for her fiction, her nonfiction has just as much to offer.”–Publishers Weekly
“Shimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an ec- Series: Nonpareil Books #4
- Author: Beattie, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927521
- Language: English
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On Democracy
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title
“For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline” (Madeleine Albright).
“I am a member of a party of one, and I liv
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905457
- Language: English
