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Vamps & Tramps
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
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 celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time.
Bit Rot
stories + essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age.
"Bit rot" is a term used in...
Feel Free
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Notable Book
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays**
Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades...
Creationists
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain)...
Money Changes Everything
Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships.
Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore...
Sherman Alexie
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time...
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
“From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
“A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion...
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
Essays and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk is the seminal work by Du Bois on race in late 19th-century North America. The way we think about and examine race today stems from his ideas. He spoke of the "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," and of the progress and obstacles to progress of the black American.
Expository Eureka
Model Expository Essays for Today's Secondary School Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Essays Eureka features the best of model expository stories written by English Language and Literature specialist, Diana Tham. Through her stories, as well as works by her students, Diana shows students how to apply model structures and writing techniques to their own writing, providing them with strategies...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical...
Acid West
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly
Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast...
The Skeptical Romancer
Selected Travel Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time.
Maugham...
The Other Serious
Essays for the New American Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to The New York Times
The essays in...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Journalism of Oscar Wilde” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted a great part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he was prepared to write...