Essays Letters category: 7676 books
The Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the...
Modern Love, Revised and Updated
True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times “Modern Love” column—now revised and updated, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery
A young woman...
Best Sex Writing 2012
The State of Today's Sexual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
In Best Sex Writing 2012, editor Rachel Kramer Bussel and judge Susie Bright collect the year’s most challenging and provocative nonfiction articles on this endlessly evocative subject. The essays here comprise a detailed, direct survey of the contemporary American sexual landscape. Major commentators...
The Meaning of Recognition
New Essays 2001-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyist, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) of many talents, and the essays collected in The Meaning of Recognition are testament to that fact. Whether discussing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz...
by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, John Bull
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....
The Last Empire
Essays 1992-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire*,* affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged...
by José Joaquín Vallejo
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," José Joaquín Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known for their caustic wit, his writings were an instant success when they were first published in Chilean magazines and newspapers. This volume...
Falling Through Space
The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Ellen Gilchrist, famed Southern storyteller, author of more than a dozen books and winner of the National Book Award, has long been a subject of fascination among readers.
Now, with this collection of essays, readers can explore the legend throughout her career. From the Mississippi plantation...
Kingdom of Olives and Ash
Writers Confront the Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have...
by William Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A collection of New York Times bestselling author William Gibson’s articles and essays about contemporary culture—a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture...
Though best known for his fiction, William...
by William Golding
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
A dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jules Verne.
'A book of occasional essays which afford us many fascinating insights into Golding the man . . .It is highly individual...
The Necessary Angel
Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and...
The Green Heart of the Tree
Essays and Notes on a Time in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings explore topics as diverse as volcanic eruptions and wild trees, African art and ritual, life in Rwanda, and turtle eggs in warm sand. "Like Annie Dillard,...
Skin
Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A collection of critical essays from award-winning author Dorothy Allison about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new preface
Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award–winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing...