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Dead Girls
Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographical
Best of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric Lit
A New York Times Editor's Choice, a best of summer...
Invisible
Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
13 essays on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author Alex Dally MacFarlane. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust.
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Introduction by Alex Dally MacFarlane....
by Alexander Chee
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
**Named a Best Book by: TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, **PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal,...
Too Much and Not the Mood
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
One of Vulture's "25 of the Most Exciting Book Releases for 2017"
One of Nylon's "50 Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017"
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended...
by Eliot Weinberger
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times)
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex for the entire...
How to Travel with a Salmon
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly).
A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both...
We Learn Nothing
Essays and Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
**“Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity’s inventive and manifold ways of failing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths...
by Scaachi Koul
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFE
In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
—Oliver...
Small Wonder
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider...
More Matter
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs...
When I First Held You
22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transfo rmative Experience of Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From some of today’s most critically acclaimed writers**—including Dennis Lehane, Justin Cronin, Andre Dubus III, and Benjamin Percy—*****comes a rich collection of essays on what it means to be a dad. ***
Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating,...
Never Can Say Goodbye
Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That*: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York*, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City.
The “charming” (The New York Times) first anthology Goodbye to All That—inspired by Joan...
A Passion for Books
A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting , Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.
Booklovers will find themselves in good...