Essays & Correspondence

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

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...

From the time he arrived on the political scene in 1964 - throughout his presidency and beyond, Ronald Reagan - used his speeches to inspire and reinvigora...

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

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, yo...

The life story of a Russian master as he told it to othersFrom the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov ...

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

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...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

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...

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

No Art Has Been Denounced As Often As Poetry. It's Even Bemoaned By Poets: I, Too, Dislike It, Wrote Marianne Moore. Many More People Agree They Hate Poetry...

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...

Presents A Selection Of Letters Written To Tom Brokaw In Response To His Book The Greatest Generation, In Which He Examines The Lives And Experiences Of The...

What does it really mean to be a good father? What did your father tell you, that has stayed with you throughout your life? Was there a lesson from him, a s...

A Whopping Big Celebration Of The Work Of The Late, Great Nora Efren, America's Funniest-- And Most Acute-- Writer, Famous For Her Brilliant Takes On Life A...

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

Seinfeld. For more than 33 million viewers, the Emmy Award-winning television show has become a Thursday night ritual. Even though the show has ended, J...

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

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout C...

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secl...

Gathered By Alistair Cooke. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Knopf, 1955. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Humor & Entertainment...

The first major new book to appear from Kurt Vonnegut in nearly a decade The New York Times - A. O. Scott A Man Without a Country is a fine place to start...

Hey. Hey, you. Yeah, you. The one with the keyboard. Im so glad you clicked on my book. I wrote it so youd read it. Now, heres where Im supposed to say all...

A Collection Of Essays That Explore The Effects Of Contemporary Patterns Of Thought On American Fiction, Considering Topics Such As The Belief In Hell, The ...

The story of a long, perilous journey undertaken by four survivors of a massacre: a teenage boy of European descent, a young white girl, and two Bushmen. Th...

this Critical Edition Of Mann's 1912 Modernist Novella Reprints The Widely Praised Translation By David Luke. Accompanying This Text, Five Critical Essays ...

A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches, now including his farewell address, selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-An...

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...

This Volume Brings Together The Era's Classic Works, With More Than A Hundred Selections From A Broad Range Of Sources, Including Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, N...

David Johnston. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable PeoplePolitical Memoirs Politics & Soc...

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

Diary-of-a-Young-GirlCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureWomen Memoirs HistoryEurope World JewishHolocaust MilitaryWorld...

In This Dazzling Memoir, The Acclaimed Writer Behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling And Marvel's Thor Reveals How The Power Of Creativity An...

John Updike’s memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his...

In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that's the case, I've got one thi...

Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After ...

Like new First Edition, First Printing (stated and full number line), Dutton 1984; a small manufacturer's crease to the front flap - GIFT QUALITY. The lette...

Like The Skins Of An Onion, There Are Other Worlds Existing Within Our Own And, Through Training And Study, We Can Alter Our Consciousness And Visit These A...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

A Charming, Intimate And Fascinating Collection Of Correspondence Between Broadcaster And #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Anderson Cooper And His Mothe...

The Pony Problem -- Christmas In July -- The Ursula Cookie -- Bring-your-machete-to-work Day -- The Good People Of This Dimension -- Bastard Out Of Westches...

In May 2012, Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman Delivered The Commencement Address At Philadelphia's University Of The Arts, In Which He Shared His Thoughts Abo...