Essays
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The Story Game
$17.95 Add to cartIn the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immig… [more below]
- Author: Tjoa, Shze-Hui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030752
- Language: English
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The Sound of Seattle: 101 Songs That Shaped a City
$22.95 Add to cartThis rockin’ paperback explores the musical evolution of Seattle through the lens of 101 songs spanning 80 years, examining the most prominent and important music and musicians to come out of our corn… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1632175142
- Language: English
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Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow’s Music Today
$21.99 Add to cartA collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future
Simon Reynolds’s first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0306833786
- Language: English
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Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium
$34.95 Read moreA richly illustrated exploration of the history, art, and design of printed LSD blotter tabs.
Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, t- Author: Davis, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048507
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
$27.95 Add to cart“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400442
- Language: English
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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
$20.99 Add to cartA collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these per… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009722
- Language: English
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The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartBorn in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship drove her family to the United States, setting her up to become an acci… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Prasad, Grace Loh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0814258972
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall at 90: Celebrating an Astonishing Lifetime of Science, Advocacy, Humanitarianism, Hope, and Peace
$23.00 Add to cartA Loving Tribute from Jane Goodall’s Family and Friends to a Most Amazing, Iconic, and Indefatigable Woman-and Much More
In this wide-ranging collection of tributes and photographs from numerous time
- Author: Bekoff, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1628063920
- Language: English
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Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
$23.99 Add to cartOur politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor (“Ode to Nap
- Author: Parker, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091630
- Language: English
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of … [more below]
- Author: Painter, Nell Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0385548907
- Language: English
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My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
$19.00 Add to cartKincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.
The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthol- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250908221
- Language: English
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Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man’s Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
$28.99 Read moreFor readers of Kiese Laymon‘s Heavy and Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be
Growing up in the Bronx, Jo- Author: Leon, Joél
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1250887100
- Language: English
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Governing by Fake News: 30 Years of Fake News in the West
$26.99 Add to cartWhat are the facts that the Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our demo… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 2315010713
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$6.99 Read moreThe ULTIMATE, complete collection of the original Mowgli stories!
This collection of stories features Mowgli, a young boy who lives amongst the wildlife of the jungle. From being tracked and hunted by- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1944686320
- Language: English
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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
$19.95 Add to cartInspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read a… [more below]
- Author: Holten, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030787
- Language: English
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I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I’m Going to Anyway)
$29.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“I could not put this book down. It’s so funny” -Ru Paul
“I LOVE this book for its honesty and dark (and light!) comedy” -Rachel Dratch (Instagram)
“It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intim… [more below]
- Author: Devantez, Chelsea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1335455078
- Language: English
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Joyful Recollections of Trauma
$29.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLIST
AN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST
“Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfe
- Author: Scheer, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293714
- Language: English
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Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale
$13.95 Read moreReading the Room is Paul Yamazaki’s love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.
Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Bo- Author: Yamazaki, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1958846694
- Language: English
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Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood
$32.00 Add to cartAn intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.
Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock rob- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0374617376
- Language: English
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Returning to My Father’s Kitchen: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartA young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father
Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos d- Author: Macansantos, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810148390
- Language: English
