Dangerous Ideas about Mothers by Camilla Nelson (Editor); Rachel Robertson (Editor)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
What's behind the rise of the mummy bullies? Coerced by the media, interrogated by other mothers, frowned upon even by those who are closest to them, the mothers of today face a barrage of criticism. Dangerous Ideas About Mothers confronts the issues that do not appear in more pious discussions of mothe ...Show more
God is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more
Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
"No other writer in the Spanish-speaking world is as fiercely independent and thoroughly irreverent as Gabriela Wiener. Constantly testing the limits of genre and gender, Wiener's work ... has bravely unveiled truths some may prefer remain concealed about a range of topics, from the daily life of polymo ...Show more
The Writer Says - Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom by Kevin (COM) Lippert
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Words of Wisdom
The seventh in our popular Words of Wisdom series, The Writer Says summons readers to an intimate gathering of novelists, essayists, grammarians, academics, and journalists--a glittering cocktail party, where the guests may be self identified introverts (like Patti Smith, who writes "to set herself apar ...Show more
James Baldwin - The Last Interview - And Other Conversations by James Baldwin; Quincy Troupe (Contribution by)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
"I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin's brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything-Bal ...Show more
Walden by Henry Thoreau; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword by)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American ...Show more
How to Write Your Own Life Story by Lois Daniel
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. It also provides tips on intriguing ...Show more
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky; Jackie Smith (Translator)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A dazzling cabinet of curiosities from one of Europe's most acclaimed and inventive writers. Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully w ...Show more
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The definitive collection of literary essays byThe New Yorker's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New ...Show more