Essays

a 16th-century Mystic, St. John Of The Cross Was Also A Carmelite Monk Who Helped Reform The Order. In This Book, He Addresses Pride, Avarice, Envy, And O...

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...

All Along You Were Blooming Is A Dynamic Collection Of Illustrated Poetry And Prose Inspiring You To Live Boundlessly Right Where You Are. With Every Turn O...

Claudia Rankine's Bold New Book Recounts Mounting Racial Aggressions In Ongoing Encounters In Twenty-first-century Daily Life And In The Media. Some Of Thes...

warrior Of The Light: A Manual Is An Inspirational Companion To the Alchemist, An International Bestseller That Has Beguiled Millions Of Readers Around The...

English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. ...

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...

Drawn by some sympathetic not in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. Booknews This classic of sincerity and ...

Product Description “Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Re...

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A collection of inspirational messages presents the author's insights into such topics as friendship, grace, spirit,...

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

Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist...

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedi...

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

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

This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue ...

A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American WestIvan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana amo...

Anne Lamott Writes About Community, Family, And Faith In Essays That Are Both Wise And Irreverent. Now Lamott Offers A Message Of Hope That Celebrates The T...

An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life's transitions--from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eliza...

The Six Essays And One Address In This Volume Outline The Great Transcendentalist's Moral Idealism As Well As Hinting At The Later Scepticism That Colored H...

Collects The Author's Best New Yorker Pieces, Including Essays On Such Topics As Why There Are So Many Kinds Of Mustard But Only One Type Of Ketchup, A Surp...

david Sedaris's Ability To Transform The Mortification Of Everyday Life Into Wildly Entertaining Art, (the Christian Science Monitor) Is Elevated To Wilde...

Explores A Range Of Modern Cultural Phenomenon, Including Internet Pornography, Tribute Bands, Baseball Rivalries, And Reality Television.Categories: Litera...

About the Author\Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, activist, entrepreneur, and writer. She has starred in David Fincher’s Gone Girl, among other film...

Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relen...

Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining e...

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

Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstractio...

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...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply ...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

When Montaigne developed the essay in the sixteenth century, he could not have imagined the power and longevity of his creation. "He did not set up for a ph...

One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year One of Esquire's Best Books of the Year One of the Wall Street Journal's Favorite Books of the Year One of the Most A...

With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compel...

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgei...

'country Crock' First Published, In Different Form, In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, And Revolution In Trump's America (macmillan Publishing Group, 201...

The best of The Minimalists. This book by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays—some short, some long—from their...

The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse fr...

In his first phenomenal best-seller, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, Robert Fulghum reminded readers everywhere of some plain and sti...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is--by her own ...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Naomi Wolf, Facing The Beast Is A Devastating, Detailed Account Of Wrongthink, Deplatforming, And An Unexpected Polit...

In The End Of The End Of The Earth, Which Gathers Essays And Speeches Written Mostly In The Past Five Years, Jonathan Franzen Returns With Renewed Vigor To ...

Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed ...

Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the shar...