Essays

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Anyone still asking, "What is creative nonfiction?" will find the answer in this collection of artfully crafted, true stories. Selected by Lee Gutkind, the "godfather behind creative nonfiction," and the staff of Creative Nonfiction, these...

From Lee Gutkind, the "Godfather behind creative narrative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair), and the staff of the landmark literary journal Creative Nonfiction comes this fresh collection of fact-based personal narratives, mined from literary blogs, 'zines, and...

Eye-opening essays by esteemed writers about the rich and complicated lives of American stepfamilies: with the U.S. divorce rate hovering around 50 percent, most people recognize remarriage as a now-familiar occurrence. And remarriage often means...

Can books be dangerous, elegant, or sad? Can books be tempting, or smokin', or double-d-daring? Can they compel you to hitchhike to the middle of Mexico, fall in love with snakes, or question your sanity? Of course they can. Writers including Jonathan...

America's much-discussed but little-understood "twenty-somethings" reveal their true face in this anthology of 16 personal essays by American writers aged 24 to 32. Humourous, ironic, satirical or angry, the contributors, including Naomi Wolf...

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A sublime and moving collection of essays by an eloquent master writer, Autumn Rhythm is equal parts candour, courage, humour, and desperation. A true-tongued, almost joyous gallows humour permeates the book, a meditation on what it's like to be on the...

The 42 essays in this collection take their inspiration from the Midwest-not just from its physical terrain but from its emotional terrain as well. They come from writers of diverse backgrounds: poets, novelists, filmmakers, and journalists; some who...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156013253Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperviaPublisher HarperviaWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

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From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic...

The fat man-a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue-is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the ugly fat man with the beautiful sylph trapped inside to the smart fat boy to the...

In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness...

Insdorf challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne's work. By doing so, she does not aim to characterise him as a feminist, but rather to expose the duality of...

A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. ""Rhetorical Occasions"" collects twenty-four of...

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