Category: Essays

An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pushkin Press : September 2021

Seller ID: 189592

ISBN-13: 9781782276647

A scintillating collection of inspirations for Wes Anderson's star-studded tenth film The French Dispatch--fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross. Together: they invented modern magazine journalism. Includes an introductory interview by Sus...
View More...

Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Dial Press : October 1999

Seller ID: 197240

ISBN-13: 9780385315906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Letters chronicle a century of life in the United States, from Mark Twain's humorous letter to the head of Western Union to Einstein's warning to Roosevelt about atomic warfare and a young Bill Gates begging hobbyists not to share software.
View More...

The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Random House : September 2005

Seller ID: 202291

ISBN-13: 9781400064748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUEON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS. "A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine." What has the "New Yorker" said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, "Citizen Kane," the invention of television, the Cold War, baseball, the lunar landing, Willem de Kooning, Madonna, the internet, and 9/11? Eighty years of "The New Yorker" offers a detailed, entertaining history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world since 1925. Every article, ev...
View More...

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

By: Ajayi, Luvvie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks : September 2016

Seller ID: 178544

ISBN-13: 9781627796064

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A truth-riot of a book --Shonda Rhimes New York Times Bestseller#1 Washington Post BestsellerRedbook "20 Books By Women You Must Read this Fall" GoodHousekeeping.com "17 New Best New Books to Read This Fall"BookRiot "100 Must-Read Hilarious Books"Goodreads Choice Awards FinalistNow in development with Shondaland and ABC Signature Studios as cable television series Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog,...
View More...

After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose

By: Anton, Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Encounter Books : February 2019

Seller ID: 190008

ISBN-13: 9781641770606

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In September 2016, the provocative essay "The Flight 93 Election" galvanized many voters by spotlighting the stakes ahead in November and reproaching complacent elements of the Right. It also drew disparagement from many who judged it too apocalyptic in its assessment of the options facing the electorate. Its author, Michael Anton--writing as "Publius Decius Mus"--addressed the main criticisms of his argument soon afterward in a "Restatement on Flight 93." A new criticism emerged later on: that he had painted a dire scenario to be averted, but no positive vision. Here, Anton presents the pos...
View More...

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

By: Byatt, A. S.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : March 2001

Seller ID: 189588

ISBN-13: 9780674004511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even among the British, demur. A. S. Byatt does, and her case is persuasive. In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, the gifted novelist and critic sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing her own trans...
View More...

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

By: Camus, Albert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Vintage : May 1991

Seller ID: 205688

ISBN-13: 9780679733737

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.
View More...

What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)

By: Daub, Adrian

Price: $8.00

Publisher: FSG Originals : October 2020

Seller ID: 190014

ISBN-13: 9780374538644

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn Daub's hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don't make money; they fall apart. --The New York Times Book Review From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress...
View More...

No One Asked for This: Essays

By: David, Cazzie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mariner : November 2020

Seller ID: 91722

ISBN-13: 9780358197027

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Blisteringly honest...kind of like if a David Sedaris book was written by an anxiety-ridden millennial who grew up in Hollywood." --Entertainment Weekly "Cazzie David is the delicious antidote to the poison of basic influencer culture. This book will make all misanthropes feel seen and loved--well, seen and tolerated." --Diablo Cody, screenwriter and author of Candy Girl From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social media, anxiety, relationships, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family. For Cazzie David, t...
View More...

Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

By: Eliot, George

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : September 1991

Seller ID: 202629

ISBN-13: 9780140431483

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas abou...
View More...

Farther Away: Essays

By: Franzen, Jonathan

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : April 2012

Seller ID: 202628

ISBN-13: 9780374153571

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it a masterpiece of American fiction and lauded its illumination, through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, of] the world we thought we knew. In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him....
View More...

How to Be Alone: Essays

By: Franzen, Jonathan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : October 2002

Seller ID: 127299

ISBN-13: 9780374173272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of "The Correction"s Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The "Harper's" Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in "How to be Alone," along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of" The Corrections." Although his subjects range from th...
View More...

Homer to Joyce

By: Gray, Wallace

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co : January 1985

Seller ID: 195042

ISBN-13: 9780025451704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Anthropocene Reviewed (Signed Edition): Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

By: Green, John

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Dutton : May 2021

Seller ID: 206274

ISBN-13: 9780525555216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. This is a signed edition. The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet--from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu--on a five-star scale. Complex and rich with detail, the An...
View More...

Essays After Eighty

By: Hall, Donald

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ecco : November 2015

Seller ID: 127271

ISBN-13: 9780544570313

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."--New York Times "Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge." -- Wall Street Journal His entire life, Donald Hall dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Here, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, his essays startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: "thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total ...
View More...

What If This Were Enough?

By: Havrilesky, Heather

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor : October 2019

Seller ID: 202626

ISBN-13: 9780525434962

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018**A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018**One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018**A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life* By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular Ask Polly, an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday Heather Havrilesky's writing has been called whip-smart and profanely funny (Entertainment Weekly) and required reading for all humans (Celeste Ng). In her work for New York, The...
View More...

Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays

By: Hochschild, Adam

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of California Press : October 2018

Seller ID: 127370

ISBN-13: 9780520297241

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers h...
View More...

Small Wonder: Essays

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper : April 2002

Seller ID: 164649

ISBN-13: 9780060504076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Whether Kingsolver is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too.

Small Wonder: Essays

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper : April 2002

Seller ID: 189591

ISBN-13: 9780060504076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Whether Kingsolver is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too.

East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres

By: Lam, Andrew

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Heyday : November 2017

Seller ID: 164585

ISBN-13: 9781597141383

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From cuisine and martial arts to sex and self-esteem, East Eats West shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two hemispheres meld into one worldwide "immigrant nation." In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today's bold fusion becomes tomorrow's classic. But while the space between East and West continues to shrink in this age of globalization, some cultural gaps remain. In this collection of twenty-one personal essays, Andrew Lam, the award-winning author of Perfume Dreams, continues to explore the Vietnamese diaspora, this time concent...
View More...

Gift from the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition

By: Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pantheon : January 1991

Seller ID: 175621

ISBN-13: 9780679732419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment during a brief vacation by the sea, here is Anne Morrow Lindbergh's inimitable classic. Drawing inspiration from the the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life will bring new understanding to readers, male and family, at any stage of life. A mother of five and professional writer, she casts an unsentimental eye at the trappings of modern life that threaten to overwhelm us -- the timesaving gadgets that complicate our lives, the overcommitments that take us from our families...
View More...

I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays

By: Lipman, Elinor

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : April 2013

Seller ID: 189587

ISBN-13: 9780547576206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the beloved and acclaimed novelist, a collection of witty, moving essays.In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world with us--her own--in essays that offer a candid, charming take on modern life. Looking back and forging ahead, she considers the subjects that matter most: childhood and condiments, long marriage and solo living, career and politics. Here you'll find the lighthearted: a celebration of four decades of All My Children, a refle...
View More...

Lyttelton Hart-Davies Letters 1955-1962: A Selection

By: Lyttelton, George,Hart-Davis, Rupert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Akadine Pr : January 2001

Seller ID: 202617

ISBN-13: 9781585790401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac

By: McClure, Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : November 1994

Seller ID: 193147

ISBN-13: 9780140232523

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as a living bio-alchemical organism through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement.
View More...

Irons in the Fire

By: McPhee, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : April 1997

Seller ID: 191759

ISBN-13: 9780374177263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this collection John McPhee once agains proves himself as a master observer of all arenas of life as well a powerful and important writer.

Michel de Montaigne: Essays

By: Montaigne, Michel de

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : January 1958

Seller ID: 202630

ISBN-13: 9780140440836

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of the age. Having witnessed firsthand the bloody armed conflicts, fanaticism, and persecutions that arose out of religious differences between French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, Montaigne was especially skeptical about human claims to knowledge. For this reason he published not systematic philosophy but mere att...
View More...

Pocket Book of Ogden Nash

By: Nash, Ogden

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pocket : May 1990

Seller ID: 190205

ISBN-13: 9780671727895

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here, in one volume, are the most popular poems of one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century -- perhaps of the last twenty centuries. Delightfully nonsensical, they in fact make the best of sense, accomplishing what only real poetry can -- allowing the reader to discover what he didn't know he already knew or felt.
View More...

The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

By: Nin, Anais

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : March 1969

Seller ID: 202621

ISBN-13: 9780156260251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters. -- Los Angeles TimesAs unique a literary memoir as has been published...lyrical, and singularly potent. -- Village VoiceEdited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann.
View More...

The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

By: Nin, Anais

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : March 1969

Seller ID: 202624

ISBN-13: 9780156260251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters. -- Los Angeles TimesAs unique a literary memoir as has been published...lyrical, and singularly potent. -- Village VoiceEdited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann.
View More...

The Road to Wigan Pier

By: Orwell, George

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1972

Seller ID: 73575

ISBN-13: 9780156767507

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class -- an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. Orwell chose to live as the coal miners did -- sleeping in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, struggling to feed a family...
View More...

Monday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Essays