Essays category: 9344 books
Front Porch Tales
Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Wisdom and Humor from the Front Porch
Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had...
Family Resemblance
An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, Family Resemblance is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight...
Extraordinary Theory of Objects
A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July—with a touch of Joan Didion—in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with her social awkwardness...
Travels
Collected Writings, 1950-1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
“Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes.”
—New York Times
“His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer.”
—Time
Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war...
Smothered in Hugs
Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” —New York Times Book Review
“His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles...
by Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In...
Hometown Tales
Recollections of Kindness, Peace, and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Stories from a Place That Feels Like Home
Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to...
A Dream Deferred
The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first...
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
**A “**stunningly insightful” essay collection from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Publishers Weekly).
From the prolific writer, poet, and activist Alice Walker, comes a compilation of writing and speeches on advocacy, struggle, and hope....
by James Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson’s fundamentally serious but playful literary style. Patterson writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with all the contradictions...
Signposts in a Strange Land
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal).
Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelist’s appreciation of the surreal.” —Los Angeles Times...
by Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
From Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life—the perfect companion for any lover of books.
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the...
On Tennis
Five Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
David Foster Wallace's extraordinary writing on tennis, collected for the first time in an exclusive digital-original edition.
A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS...