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1) Calypso
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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English
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A collection of humorous essays chronicle the author's pursuit of perfection and quest to be everybody's favorite.
“Many have tried, and many will try, to capture the sweet, innocent insanity of life as a young girl during the ’90s and 2000s. None have come close to the comedic perfection Lillian Stone nails again and again in Everybody’s Favorite.” —Glamour, Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating...
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English
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The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
“An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.” —James Wolcott in his introduction An outstanding new collection, A HITCH IN TIME is a must have for Hitchens completists and the perfect starting point for understanding one of the most brilliant essayists of all time. Anthologized here for the first time, A HITCH IN TIME is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s...
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Haymarket Books
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English
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Discusses why men often wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women do not, and why the silencing of women is problematic for society.
Contents: In her comic, scathing essay, "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this stirring rumination, Wallace Shawn considers justice, inequality, blame, revenge, eleventh-century Japanese court poetry, decadence, Beethoven, the relationship between the Islamic world and the West--and the possibility that a better world could be created.
7) White
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
8) Essays one
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis"--
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most ferociously brilliant young voices in literary non-fiction: a debut of extraordinary force that interrogates a particular paradigm of American masculinity, capturing with discomforting intimacy and precision the landscape of the misfit. Kent Russell's essays take us to society's ragged edges, the junctures between savagery and civilization, where solitary, philosophical, troubled men yearn for a more heightened form of existence....
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
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Publisher
Forefront Books
Language
English
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"Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career. Peggy Rowe has been writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write—even through those years of constant rejection from publishing houses. But between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, Peggy’s breakthrough finally came—at the age of eighty! Vacuuming in the Nude is most likely her funniest prose to date as...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A winning collection of essays about home, love, cooking, politics, and the writing life from the acclaimed novelist.
A collection of essays and anecdotes written by fiction author, Elinor Lipman, on subjects, such as, childhood, marriage, career, politics, online dating, soap operas, and more.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A rich gathering of the brilliant author's previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Nabokov infamously wrote when introducing his 1973 volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. This new collection follows it up with public writings starting in 1921, opening with an essay about...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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'Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, and Next Big Idea Club One of Curbed’s best architecture, design, and urbanism books of the spring A most anticipated book of 2023 by The Millions Katy Kelleher has spent much...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of Blacks within American society."--Provided by publisher.
"W.E.B. Du Bois's classic collection of essays about the experiences of African-Americans. The book is a foundational work in the history of sociology and a seminal tome in the development of African-American Studies. The essays include: The Forethought,...
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Language
English
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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...
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