Literary Collections - Essays
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Desire and Fate"Ours is an ill-mannered society that wears those bad manners as a badge not just of its moral rectitude but of its millenarian ethical ambitions. At the same time, in no society in recent memory have people been so easily affronted." At a time...
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Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and MadnessDickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members;...
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A ConfessionalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the New England Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year "The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always...
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First CenturyA groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art...
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and ThoughtSince first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, "The condition it describes is our...
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American LyricA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric,...
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Don't Let This Get Out in PinckardCeleste King Conner tries to count her blessings-even when she forgets. Told through essays and excerpts from her former newspaper column, Facebook posts, and other musings on daily life, Don't Let This Get Out in Pinckard is rooted in the stories Celeste King Conner...
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Don't Let This Get Out in PinckardCeleste King Conner tries to count her blessings-even when she forgets. Told through essays and excerpts from her former newspaper column, Facebook posts, and other musings on daily life, Don't Let This Get Out in Pinckard is rooted in the stories Celeste King Conner...
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Down the RiverDown the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur...
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Driftless: An Anthology of Voices from Where We LiveDriftless: an Anthology of Voices from Where We Live brings together essays and poems that write about place through the lenses of family, love, work, home & un-homedness, welcome and exclusion, creativity & open space. Here, the reader will find the unique geology and...
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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of StrangersWitty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of "legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural...
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in FictionHailed as a "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and written acclaimed and prizewinning works of historical fiction. In Dust and Light, the first work...
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in FictionHailed as a "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and written acclaimed and prizewinning works of historical fiction. In Dust and Light, the first work...
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Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary TransitionA revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for centuries In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado, best known for his 2013 cult classic Testo Junkie, has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry, and autofiction that...
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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food WritingEdited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the...
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Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel WritingAn inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology, Edge of the World explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world.These lively essays by luminary writers offer a queer perspective on how people experience other cultures and how other cultures receive queer people....
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Elbows Up!: Canadian Voices of Resilience and ResistanceA blazing collection of responses to the U.S.'s shocking annexation threats and the swell of Canadian national unity that followed, from a remarkable array of Canada's sharpest and most influential minds. 2025. Donald Trump is president. And he is insisting that Canada is for...
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Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, FireAcclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles--earth, water, air and fire--exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness. "A love letter to Los Angeles" -- Alta magazine In Elements of Los Angeles: Earth,...
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: EssaysNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A "lyrical" (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. "Mesmerizing . . . a...
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Encounter on the Seine: Essays"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant." -- Maya Angelou This collectible edition celebrates...
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