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Utopia's Debris
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Gary Indiana is one of America's leading cultural critics-a public intellectual who has written key essays on every aspect of American culture. Utopia's Debris comprises selections of his very best work, revealing him to be an enormously acute, frequently scabrous, and always brilliant observer of...
Picked-Up Pieces
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”:...
Something to Declare
Essays on France and French Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barnes’s appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate...
The Broken Estate
Essays on Literature and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
by Norman Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This is a collection of essays on Essays on Smollett, Lawrence, Austen, Dickens & others, by a man who went on to write a number of hugely popular novels.
The classic book on the craft of writing, this is Norman Collins' first published work.
The Little Virtues
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss...
Earth Works
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays—nine never before collected—Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and...
A Hot-Eyed Moderate
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
**The essays in this inspiring collection analyze the craft of writing and the art of living and loving **
Jane Rule shares her insights into the creative process, sexual fidelity, feminist politics, and the transformative power of love.
Part I—“On Writing”—dispenses...
All My Januaries
Pleasures of Life and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
'Somewhere in this world, in this lifetime, there is a place of simple things, of sitting beside a fire with friends, good company, quietly talking, no formidable decisions, no explanations, no threat, no guilt, no anguish. These are the days for walking on country roads.' From iconic author and patron...
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent...
The Greatest Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance, Spiritual Laws, The Conduct of Life, Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Representative Men, The Transcendentalist, Nominalist and Realist, The American Scholar, Man the Reformer…
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This meticulously edited collection contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: Ralph Waldo Emerson Books: The Conduct of Life: Fate Power Wealth Culture Behavior Worship Considerations...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,”...
A Paris All Your Own
Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig—edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris.
“My...
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Collected Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A collection of insightful essays, interviews, and commentaries on music, art, and those who make it, from acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ned Rorem
It is a rare artist who can deftly cross the boundaries separating one artistic endeavor from another. Contemporary American...