Essays
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
$26.95 Read more“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”–Washington Post
Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides link- Series: Nonpareil Books #10
- Author: Davenport, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927777
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.
“One of the fo
- Author: Alderton, Dolly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: 14-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 0063319136
- Language: English
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What My Mother and I Don’t Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
$18.99 Add to cart“You will devour these beautifully written–and very important–tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from f… [more below]
- Author: Filgate, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1982107359
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$17.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452022
- Language: English
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How to Draw a Novel
$20.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don’t Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and forme
- Author: Solares, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0802159303
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist
$10.00 Add to cartA call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. – “To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act … [more below]
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1984897381
- Language: English
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Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.
Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, … [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 22-Oct-19
- ISBN10: 0358212103
- Language: English
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Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?
$16.95 Read moreIn this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb.
I- Author: Zimmerman, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1797217577
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
$19.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant selection of essays–including three new pieces–the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and un… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314077
- Language: English
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThis celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is “brilliantly entertaining…Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation’s best comi… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 2-Jul-07
- ISBN10: 0316013323
- Language: English
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Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears
$28.99 Read moreA beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness–and the transformative power of tears.
When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frus- Author: Stosuy, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668003457
- Language: English
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
“The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available e
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1328507971
- Language: English
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George MacDonald
$17.99 Add to cartC. S. Lewis said everything he wrote was influenced by George MacDonald. According to Lewis, there is “hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continuously close, to the Spirit of Chri
- Series: Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0060653191
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1668015544
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
$30.00 Add to cartGoodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down.… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0525556532
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$14.00 Add to cartA transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements
Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thor- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25, 1983
- ISBN10: 0140390448
- Language: English
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
$17.00 Add to cart“Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis–and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.” –Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books
“Vale… [more below]
- Author: Luiselli, Valeria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1566894956
- Language: English
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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
$18.00 Add to cart“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that c… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 1997
- ISBN10: 0802135293
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$29.99 Add to cart“Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn’t steal was the power of stories.”
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a collec
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691605
- Language: English
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
$17.95 Add to cart“Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1593760078
- Language: English
