Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker by Susan Howe
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series," Sorting Facts is Susan Howe s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout. An excerpt: Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to recor ...Show more
The Coming of Lilith - Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003 by Judith Plaskow; Donna Berman (Editor)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
This first collection of Judith Plaskow's essays and short writings traces her scholarly and personal journey from her early days as a graduate student through her pioneering contributions to both feminist theology and Jewish feminism to her recent work in sexual ethics. Accessibly organized into four s ...Show more
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish - Advice for the Rest of Your Life - Classic Graduation Speeches by No Author
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Speeches
Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be. Graduation day is a pivotal moment. After a lifetime of learning, and at least three years of studying hard in a chosen subject, we are thrown headfirst into the unknown world of adulthood. That day - and the months afterwards - are ripe with possibility. T ...Show more
Look at Me Now and Here I Am - Selected Works, 1911-1945 by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Gertrude Stein’s radical innovations and continual experiments with language were years ahead of her time. More than any other writer, Stein reflects the last century’s revolt from the fine arts. Gertrude Stein was one of the most colorful personalities of the literary world during the interwar year ...Show more
How Not to Be a Doctor: and Other Essays by John LAUNER
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
An essential guide on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. How Not to Be A Doctor contains a selection of essays by John Launer, doctor and medical columnist, on the practice and teaching of medicine. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor - a real doctor - should m ...Show more
Airmail - Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Women of Letters have conquered the world with their passion for correspondence. Taking their literary salons on a global tour, they've collected an astounding and sweeping array of contributions from some of the world's brightest talents. From Ubud, award-winning author Lionel Shriver writes with unexp ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more
Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Adèle In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
See What Can Be Done - Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of B ...Show more
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...Show more
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I - 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath; Peter K. Steinberg (Editor); Karen Kukil (Editor)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been publ ...Show more