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Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : 4/1/2019

Seller ID: 97526

ISBN-13: 9781469651675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time. Whether their formative experience was the Great Depression or the upheavals of the 1970s, their lives reflected their era and influenced how ...
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NYRB Anthology

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Seller ID: 100158

ISBN: 281ALG1000299

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Future Dictionary of America

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Publisher: Common Assets Action Fund : 10/1/2005

Seller ID: 83533

ISBN-13: 9781932416428

Binding: Hardcover

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I'm Judging You: Lessons and Side-Eyes on Life, Culture, Social Media, and Fame

By: Ajayi, Luvvie

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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks : September 2016

Seller ID: 121527

ISBN-13: 9781627796064

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A truth-riot of a book --Shonda Rhimes New York Times Bestseller#1 Washington Post BestsellerRedbook "20 Books By Women You Must Read this Fall" GoodHousekeeping.com "17 New Best New Books to Read This Fall"BookRiot "100 Must-Read Hilarious Books"Goodreads Choice Awards FinalistNow in development with Shondaland and ABC Signature Studios as cable television series Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog,...
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

By: Barthes, Roland

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Publisher: Hill and Wang : October 2010

Seller ID: 132164

ISBN-13: 9780374251468

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes's tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets.

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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

By: Biss, Eula

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Graywolf Press : November 2018

Seller ID: 128527

ISBN-13: 9781555978235

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man's Land begins with a series of lynchings, ends with a list of apologies, and in an unsettling new coda revisits a litany of murders that no one seems capable of solving. Eula Biss explores race in America through the experiences chronicled in these essays--teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting from an African American newspaper in Sa...
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Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote

By: Capote, Truman

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Publisher: Random House : October 2007

Seller ID: 126038

ISBN-13: 9781400066612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote's eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs of the form. "Portraits and Observations" is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to meditations about fame, fortune, a...
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Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?

By: Charters, Ann

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Publisher: Penguin Books : June 2001

Seller ID: 101759

ISBN-13: 9780141001517

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and many more-from commentaries by the Beats themselves as well as by such writers as Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, Mary McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Wolfe, Grace Paley, and Henry Louis Gates, J...
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Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say

By: Corrigan, Kelly

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Publisher: Random House : 1/1/2018

Seller ID: 92653

ISBN-13: 9780399588372

Binding: Hardcover

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth and courage."--Glennon Doyle NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE AND BUSTLE It's a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that's just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her New York Times bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core rel...
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Written Lives: Essays

By: Costa, Margaret Jull,Marías, Javier

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Publisher: New Directions : 2/1/2006

Seller ID: 97827

ISBN-13: 9780811216111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marias is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected here are twenty pieces recounting great writers' lives, "or, more precisely, snippets of writers' lives." Thomas Mann, Rilke...
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Halls of Fame: Essays

By: D'Agata, John

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Publisher: Graywolf Press : April 2003

Seller ID: 107301

ISBN-13: 9781555973773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"John D'Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold." --Guy Davenport, Harper'sJohn D'Agata journeys the endless corridors of America's myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. With topics ranging from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the artist Henry Darger, who died in obscurity, Halls of Fame hovers on the brink between prose and poetry, deep seriousness and high comedy, the subject and the self....
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My Misspent Youth: Essays

By: Daum, Meghan

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Publisher: Picador : November 2015

Seller ID: 129800

ISBN-13: 9781250067654

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now back in print, author of The Unspeakable Meghan Daum's acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of writers Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers working today, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to m...
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Essays One

By: Davis, Lydia

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Publisher: Picador : November 2020

Seller ID: 129886

ISBN-13: 9781250758156

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as the best prose stylist in America. And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive." Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis's gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed...
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{NEW} Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)

By: Didion, Joan

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : October 2008

Seller ID: 132839

ISBN-13: 9780374531386

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties.

It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.

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Meditations from a Movable Chair

By: Dubus, Andre

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Vintage : April 1999

Seller ID: 101672

ISBN-13: 9780679751151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and ...
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The Deep Zoo

By: Ducornet, Rikki

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Publisher: Coffee House Press : 1/1/2015

Seller ID: 77737

ISBN-13: 9781566893763

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Included in Library Journal's "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015" Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cort zar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep Zoo. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Z tl to Abu Ghraib, from the tree of life to Sade's Silling Castle, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to virtual reality. Says Ducornet, "To write with the irresistible ink of tigers and th...
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The Art of Living Other People's Lives: Stories, Confessions, and Memorable Mistakes

By: Dybec, Greg

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Publisher: Running Press Adult : 1/1/2017

Seller ID: 92113

ISBN-13: 9780762459933

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Greg Dybec is the quirky, neurotic, funny little brother I never had. The Art of Living Other People's Lives is a terrific collection of relatable, hilarious stories. -- Jen Mann, New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat When he isn't responsible for pleasing tens of millions of online readers a month as the managing editor of Elite Daily, Greg Dybec worries about rent, sex, love, family, and--the most millennial topic of them all--a desire to leave a legacy. In The Art of Living Other People's Lives, Greg delivers a funny, brash, insightful collection of stor...
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Out of Sheer Rage (The Canons)

By: Dyer, Geoff

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Canongate Books : February 2012

Seller ID: 103033

ISBN-13: 9780857862341

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This biography of D.H. Lawrence is also a travel book. Geoff Dyer followed in Lawrence's footsteps, living out of a rucksack, and by retracing Lawrence's journeys, he learns as much about himself as he does about Lawrence.
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Pieces of Soap: Essays

By: Elkin, Stanley

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Publisher: Tin House Books : November 2016

Seller ID: 126763

ISBN-13: 9781941040379

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. "A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language," as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.
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A Literary Education and Other Essays

By: Epstein, Joseph

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Axios Press : 6/1/2014

Seller ID: 97778

ISBN-13: 9781604190786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical power broker, Seneca? The 16th century French philosopher Montaigne certainly brought it to a peak of perfection. There were many 19th century masters, not so many after that. Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? That requires no debate at all. It is unquestionably Joseph Epstein. He is not only the best living essayist; he is right up there in the company of Seneca and Montaigne, but one of our own, living in our era and dealing with our pleasures and travails. Epstein is penetra...
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