Essays
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
$19.99 Add to cartCreative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-fiv
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326659
- Language: English
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On Lighthouses
$12.95 Add to cart“This book is a light at the end of the tunnel.” –The Paris Review
Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offe
- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641341
- Language: English
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Essays of E. B. White
$19.99 Read more“Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White’s style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Li
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0060932236
- Language: English
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Selected Non-Fictions
$29.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction–much of it appearing here in English for the first time–of “one of- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140290117
- Language: English
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On Writing
$16.00 Add to cartA master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners
Delve into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges’s thoughts on the theory and practice of literature, an- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105728
- Language: English
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The Amy Award Anthology 2
$9.99 Add to cartThe stories in this collection are the finalists of the 2022 International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir, an annual contest that celebrates excellence in short works of memoir writing.
Memoir writing, or
- Author: Rosner, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 177814022X
- Language: English
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The Harvest Gypsies
$14.00 Add to cartSelected by NYU as one of the century’s best books of American journalism.
Gathered in this volume are seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 for The San Francisco News about the pl
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1890771619
- Language: English
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Coventry: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNPR’s Favorite Books of 2019
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a- Author: Cusk, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619580
- Language: English
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What Is Art?
$16.00 Add to cartThis profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art revea… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140446427
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
$39.00 Add to cart“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition–and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” –Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think A… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0593412427
- Language: English
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
$17.00 Add to cartA profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity–and witness t- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0226823865
- Language: English
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
$27.95 Add to cartJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women’s shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 1590300068
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance, and Other Essays
$7.00 Add to cartSix essays and one address outline Emerson’s moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes “History,” “Friendship,” “The Over-Soul,” “The Poet” and “Exp… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 13 1993
- ISBN10: 0486277909
- Language: English
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Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing
$18.00 Read moreA sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker–acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.
Following the publication of her acclaime- Author: Barker, Elspeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 166802215X
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1476785201
- Language: English
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Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays
$18.00 Read moreAn electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction
This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and- Author: Sloan, Aisha Sabatini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452715
- Language: English
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartHere is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and t… [more below]
- Author: Acocella, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0307275760
- Language: English
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How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing
$16.00 Read moreA fun and thoughtful collection of previously unpublished essays about skateboarding, riding horses, gardening, delivering mail, shooting baskets, cooking, record collecting, knitting, stitching, runn
- Author: Burch, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1957392258
- Language: English
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Essays One
$25.00 Read moreA selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has calle- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758157
- Language: English
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A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays
What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these- Author: Noble, Randon Billings
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496217748
- Language: English
