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Author
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family's poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Picador, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this updated collection of literary essays, interviews, prefaces, personal notes, and occasional writings, including poignant and illuminating appreciations of other poets and novelists and of New York City life, Paul Auster offers not only samplings but insights into the first fifty years of his brilliant writing career. Through critical readings of literary greats such as Hawthorne, Poe, Beckett and Kafka, as well as less well-appreciated poets...
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.
Series
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...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. He brings his "elegance, acumen, and daring as an essayist" (New York Times) to the collection.
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others--along with original, previously unreleased...
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.
34) Pulphead: Essays
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us--with a laidback,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Deeply meditative and written with wry humor, this wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays from an award-winning author, explores displacement, trauma and memory, love and how we coexist and encroach on the natural world.
"Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, "The Window Seat," she reveals the unexpected enchantments of commercial air travel. In "Obama and the Renaissance Generation," she documents how, despite...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
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