Essays Letters category: 7676 books
We're Doomed. Now What?
Essays on War and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We’re Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.
Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order,...
Long Life
Essays and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.
"Poets must read and study, but also they...
One Big Happy Family
18 Writers Talk About Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
More important and timely than ever--a collection of illuminating essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family.
Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca Walker, this fascinating exploration of today's American family features essays by prominent voices such as Z.Z. Packer, Dan...
Traces Remain
Essays and Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time.His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the...
by Clive James
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal).
In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights...
Kill All Your Darlings
Pieces 1990-2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher...
House of Pain
New and Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From a maximum-security prison to a cancer ward, from a mental institution to the World Trade Center, Laurence Gonzales's prose grips from the first sentence. Sometimes hair-raising, sometimes heart-wrenching, among these essays is "Marion Prison," a National Magazine Award finalist, with its intimate...
A Family by Any Other Name
Exploring Queer Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT Anthology
Winner of a 2015 Silver Independent Publisher Book Award
At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. A Family by Any Other Name recognizes...
by Lacey Lord
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The Invictus Writers Vol. 3 is a collection of personal essays written by three college students at Ball State University. Each individual story focuses on a defining moment within their lives, from the suicide of a father to the realization that social class changes the way you experience life. These...
Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his...
Coventry
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing...
Talking to Strangers
Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prize–finalist Paul Auster.
Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was twenty and...
by Robert Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
"I taught undergraduates for forty-five years (the last thirty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee), and for most of those years I spent as much time as possible outside. I hunted as much as I could, and I fished some. I also spent time in the woods of Tennessee, Alabama, and...
by John Berryman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1976
Less than a year before his death in 1972, John Berryman signed a contract with his publisher for a book of prose, The Freedom of the Poet, for which he had made a selection from his published and unpublished writings. In his draft of a prefatory note, he acknowledged the influence of Eliot, Blackmur,...