Essays

One Of The First Russian Writers To Make A Name For Herself On The Internet, Linor Goralik Writes Conversational Short Works That Conjure The Absurd In All ...

The American novelist and playwright presents sketches of such figures as Brando, Monroe, and Bogart, as well as vignettes from his personal lifeCategories:...

Robert Fulghum.Categories: Religion & Spirituality New Age & SpiritualityInspirational

A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category Finalist For The 2019 Pen / Diamonstein-spielvogel ...

It all began with a letter inquiring about secondhand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84, Charing Cross Road in Lond...

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The resu...

Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a d...

The Rights And Involved Duties Of Mankind Considered -- The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed -- The Same Subject Continued -- Observations...

Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House. Women today have more choices than at any tim...

a Classic Work That Has Charmed Generations Of Readers, This Collection Assembles Carson Mccullers’s Best Stories, Including Her Beloved Novella “the Ball...

how Do Imperceptibly Small Differences In The Environment Change One's Behavior? What Is The Anatomy Of A Bad Mood? Does Stress Shrink Our Brains? What Do...

Isaiah Berlin Was One Of The Leading Thinkers Of Our Time And One Of Its Finest Writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind Brings Together His Most Celebrated Wri...

MINECRAFT : REDSTONE, LE GUIDE OFFICIELCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays

ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about langua...

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns...

A Long-awaited New Book On Personal Writing From Lopate--the Celebrated Essayist And The Director Of Columbia University's Nonfiction Program. He Provides T...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unu...

With a new Introduction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seek...

“Brilliant, hysterical, truthful, and real, these essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders.”—Reese WitherspoonA diverse group of cele...

A Collection Of Fifty-five Important Pieces Of Short Fiction Of The Twentieth Century Features Masterworks By Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cath...

Culled From 7500 Columns And Spanning Four Decades, From His Early Days To His Last Dispatch, The Writings In This Collection Reflect A Radically Changing A...

Start embracing the wonder of life after 40 We're all getting older. How do we make the second half of our lives the best half? Forty incredible women of f...

By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multiv...

Here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. Her quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers' he...

A Book Of Inspirational Quotes Culled From The Author's Writings--Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost com...

Nature Writing: The Tradition In English Includes 157 Selections By 131 Authors. This Is The Definitive Collection Of A Many-voiced Genre That Has Flourishe...

Defining that precise moment when a trend becomes a trend, Malcolm Gladwell probes the surface of everyday occurrences to reveal some surprising dynamics b...

This text offers clear, concise, step-by-step guidance on the expanded roles and responsibilities of the RN serving as first assistant in the operating roo...

Here, Novelist And Critic Francine Prose Serves Up A Marvelous Banquet Of Witty And Engaging Observations On The Most Delicious Of Deadly Sins. Prose Traces...

Pt. I Influences On Malthus -- [divine Mandates For Humanity] / King James Bible -- From Concerning The Causes Of The Greatness And Magnificence Of Cities (...

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-02 Pages: 240 Language: English A Sunday Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Guardian first book awardA Radio 4 Book of the Week...

Veteran journalist Pete Hamill has never covered just politics. Or just sports. Or just the entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues,...

A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories — which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, t...

sifting Carefully Through Reports From Newspapers, Magazines, Personal Memoirs, And Letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 Brings Readers More Of The Best First...

capitalism And American Noiseintroduced Readers To The Musical, Comedic, And Impassioned Voice Of Poet Campbell Mcgrath. Now, In spring Comes To Chicago, ...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

The eighth installment in the universally beloved, internationally bestselling series.In the life of Mma Ramotswe €“ a woman duly proud of her fine trad...

what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Playe...

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces ...

In A Countryman's Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard an...

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian A...

Andrew Sullivan, "one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades" (The New York Times) and founding editor of The Daily Dish presents a c...

Palimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM, available for presale in Canada and t...

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrume...

One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays—by William Stafford, Den...