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The first posthumous publication from this literary icon, "Mind of an Outlaw" collects Mailer's most important and representative work.

"Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985,...

E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to the cosmic (Genesis and Einstein). As he wrestles with the subjects that have teased and fired his...

Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and...

"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." --Publishers Weekly“The essay is politicaland politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocativebecause of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix...

La fuente de la autoestima es la magnifica recopilacion de ensayos y discursos de Toni Morrison en los que ofrece sus lucidas reflexiones sobre la sociedad, la cultura y el arte de los ultimos cuarenta anos, y realiza una contundente critica de sus obras y tambien de algunas ajenas. Morrison aborda temas sociales acuciantes como la inmigracion, el empoderamiento de la mujer, la prensa, el dinero o los derechos humanos, la funcion de los artistas en...

"What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance...

A collection of essays explores themes of writing, form, and thought while considering the author's life-long attachment to books, in a volume that considers the works of such thinkers as Kafka, Nietzsche, and Henry James.

"An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice"-- "Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today. On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood” to describe her frustration with placating her readers, what she described...