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Cover of The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Volume II
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

Another spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalists Condé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of the award-winning magazine's best travel writings,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

"A trove of well-wrought, luminous, soul-bracing gifts." -Thomas Lynch (on the 2010 edition) With selection chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing to appear in American publications during...
Cover of Pragmatism and Other Writings
by William James, Giles Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full...
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by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world...
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Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood

Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films

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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

The stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood's most iconic movies The magazine world 's monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago. Now,...
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Homegrown Democrat

A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

by Garrison Keillor
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004

In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes the simple democratic values-the Golden Rule,...
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Existentialists and Mystics

Writings on Philosophy and Literature

by Iris Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this...
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Woof!

Writers on Dogs

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008

As the popularity of Marley & Me attests, people love their dogs?and everyone else?s too. For all the time spent on grooming, petting, and other care?it?s as if owning a dog is a religion unto itself. Woof! brings together original essays from acclaimed writers ruminating on the sometimes tumultuous,...
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by Neal Cassady
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005

“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome....  It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in...
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Tripping

An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000

**A collection of transformational, awe-provoking psychedelic experiences. ** In Tripping, Charles Hayes has gathered fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life--respectable Baby Boomers, aging hippies,...
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Raised in Captivity

Fictional Nonfiction

by Chuck Klosterman
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
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Brownbread and War

Two Plays

by Roddy Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, two plays set in the north Dublin suburb of Barrytown Watch for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017 From novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle come these two colorful plays. both set in the North Dublin...
Cover of Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair   What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan...
Cover of Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington eBook includes special materials for book clubs: a Q&A with Celeste Ng and John Green, a letter from Celeste Ng, and book club discussion questions. Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington...
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