The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
How to Write by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
First published in 1931, this volume offers Gertrude Stein's reflections on the art and craft of writing. Although written in her distinctive experimental style, the book is remarkably accessible and easy to read. The modernist author's characteristic humor is borne out by some of the chapter titles, "S ...Show more
You Must Change Your Life - The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke--then a struggling poet in Germany--went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneo ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
An essential volume for generations of writers young and old, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been in ...Show more
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
**A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year** From one of Canada's most distinctive and intelligent emerging voices, a heartfelt collection of essays in Durga Chew-Bose's captivating and truly inimitable style. In Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philos ...Show more
The Good Immigrant USA by Nikesh Shukla; Chimene Suleyman
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration ...Show more
Observing Eye by Muriel Spark
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The Observing Eye is a collection of Muriel Spark's brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms. No other writer can hold a candle to her wry, puckish observations:'Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.''It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.''The ...Show more
What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circ ...Show more
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. Now, in The Givenness of Things, she brings a ...Show more
A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A collection of essays, which addresses many of the themes explored in the author's novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, it focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James an ...Show more
Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a sp ...Show more
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture ...Show more