Essays Letters category: 7676 books
The Bitch in the House
26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House.
This e-book includes an exclusive excerpt from The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and Getting Happier, a second collection of essays from nine of the contributors featured in The Bitch...
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True Stories People Never Thought They'd Dare to Share
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A "fascinating" (MetroSource) collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us.
Collecting the most celebrated stories from the hit podcast RISK!, along with all-new true tales...
The Message in the Bottle
How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: “These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight” (The New Republic).
Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy,...
At the Same Time
Essays and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art,...
by Mary Gaitskill
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman...
Portrait Inside My Head
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary...
by Elbert Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) was an American writer, philosopher, publisher and artist, who founded the Roycroft Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York. Hubbard set up a small printing shop next to his family home, where he began printing "The Philistine" magazine. The publication, quite popular...
The Girls in My Town
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother’s childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty,...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. TABLE OF CONTENTS:...
The Hall of Uselessness
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
An NYRB Classics Original
Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence,...
My Misspent Youth
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
My Misspent Youth is an incisive collection that marked the start of a new millennium and became a cult classic, from the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed and the author of The Unspeakable
An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction...
See What Can Be Done
Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year
This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York...
Forty-one False Starts
Essays on Artists and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics.
Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the...
by Sir Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From the essay "Of Study": "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." According to Wikipedia:...