Essays

Showing the Story collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling.This collection shows what people new to writing, ...

"Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book Re...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Introduction: Into The Labyrinth -- Prologue -- Orientation: Who Do You Think You Are? (what Is A Writer, And How Did I Become One?) -- Duplicity: The Jekyl...

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights move...

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...

"Making Hay takes one of the least common denominators in rural American life and gives it real glory. Klinkenborg is funny, learned, elegant, and accurate ...

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...

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...

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

Is There A Song That Changed Your Life? Npr's Music Authority Bob Boilen Posed That Question To Some Of Today's Best-loved Musical Legends And Rising Stars....

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world, neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, effecting even those who don...

Collects Forty Short Stories Published Between 1915 And 2015, From Writers That Include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, And Alice Munro That Exemplify Their ...

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...

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...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated ...

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorou...

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...

An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 A Country Living Best Book of Fall 2021 From the author of the bestselling #ReadWithJenna/TODAY Show book club ...

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

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...

A collection of essays on the most poignant and humorous issues of today features the writing of Ada Louise Huxtable, Ward Just, Oliver Sacks, Cynthia Ozick...

Greene's account of a five year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the Nationa...

The Inconvenient Indian Is At Once A History And The Complete Subversion Of A History--in Short, A Critical And Personal Meditation That The Remarkable Thom...

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

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

We live in a traumatic age. Or, perhaps, we should say that trauma appears fundamental to human existence. Over the past few years, especially, we have beco...

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

mark Twain's Skeptical Assessment Of Free Will, And Determinism, Religious Belief, And The Nature Of Humanity. He Put Off Publishing It For 25 Years, And Th...

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve ...