Category: Essays & Letters

Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Algonquin Books : March 2022

Seller ID: 56385

ISBN-13: 9781643751245

Condition: New

Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the 65 writers who grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter leave an eternal mark? When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to "write a letter to a stranger who haunts you," she opened the floodgates. The responses--intimate and addictive, all in the form of letters, all written in the second person--began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by today's best literary minds are organized around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, an...
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Analog Sea Review: Number One

By: a collection

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Analog Sea : July 2018

Seller ID: 36984

ISBN-13: 9781732251908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Analog Sea Review: Number Three

By: a collection

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Analog Sea

Seller ID: 51301

ISBN-13: 9781732251977

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Best American Essays 2022

By: Atwan, Robert,Chee, Alexander

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Mariner Books : November 2022

Seller ID: 63867

ISBN-13: 9780358658870

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Book of Delights: Essays

By: Gay, Ross

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Algonquin Books : August 2022

Seller ID: 62206

ISBN-13: 9781643753287

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Bad Feminist: Essays

By: Gay, Roxane

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : August 2014

Seller ID: 29176

ISBN-13: 9780062282712

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, the New York Times Bestseller, Best Book of the Year at NPR, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and many more, and instant classicA collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay."Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September is...
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Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

By: Green, John

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Dutton : March 2023

Seller ID: 65883

ISBN-13: 9780525555247

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are: Essaysc

By: Jenkins, Jedidiah

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Convergent Books : February 2021

Seller ID: 62342

ISBN-13: 9780593137239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer."--Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We You can travel the world looking for yourself, but if you don't know what you're looking for, how can you find it? Like Streams To The Ocean is about examining the things that make us who we are and getting to know ourselves, our stories, and the decisions that shape our one and only life. Writing with the passion and clarity that made his de...
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide

By: Kinsley, Michael

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Tim Duggan Books : April 2016

Seller ID: 22650

ISBN-13: 9781101903766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked Exit. The notorious baby boomers--the largest age cohort in history--are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you're gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson's disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at som...
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Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances

By: Mamet, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books : January 1997

Seller ID: 55406

ISBN-13: 9780316550352

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Make-Believe Town brings together David Mamet's acute insights into everyday life, the arts, and politics. These pieces evidence Mamet's love of language, particularly the introductory essay, "Eight Kings," which celebrates the private languages of carpenters, carnival workers, and all crafts and trades, and "The Northern Novel," which propounds Mamet's affection for the line of American fiction exemplified by Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Some of the essays are prose portraits from Mamet's life: "Deer Hunting" and "The Diner" delineate worlds far from the public eye. Make-Believe Town al...
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Vintage Mencken: The Finest and Fiercest Essays of the Great Literary Iconoclast

By: Mencken, H.L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Vintage : March 1990

Seller ID: 58366

ISBN-13: 9780679728955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

These Precious Days: Essays

By: Patchett, Ann

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Harper : November 2021

Seller ID: 65254

ISBN-13: 9780063092785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a suprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone wit...
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Living Out Loud

By: Quindlen, Anna

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books : March 1994

Seller ID: 51731

ISBN-13: 9780449909126

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in all her columns, for most of us share them. With her NEW YORK TIMES-based column, "LIFE IN THE 30s," Anna Quindlen valued to national attention, and this wonderful collection shows why.
As she proved in OBJECT LESSONS and THINKIN OUT LOUD, Anna Quindlen's views always fascinate.
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Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Heyday : June 2023

Seller ID: 67535

ISBN-13: 9781597146050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Category: Essays & Letters