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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more: once again 'passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science.'(New York Times)"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent...
4) On haiku
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1426
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, and loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as for its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere--Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, first-grade students...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
Español
Description
A collection of essays from Winfrey's "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Organized by theme, these essays offer a rare and powerful glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women.
Author
Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ilya Budraitskis, one of Russia's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in his home country, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of the left there"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"La perfección absoluta no parece de este mundo, ni siquiera en obras artísticas de creadores que, como Borges, estuvieron más cerca de lograrla. Esta colección de artículos, conferencias, reseñas y notas da testimonio de más de medio siglo de lecturas de un autor que ha sido para mí, desde que leí sus primeros cuentos y ensayos en la Lima de los años cincuenta, una fuente inagotable de placer intelectual. Muchas veces lo he releído y,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam Zagajewski--one of Poland's great poets--the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his "restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge." Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of the poet, arranged not chronologically but with that same luminous quality that distinguishes Zagajewski's spellbinding poetry--an...
12) Happy-go-lucky
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
14) Mother noise
Author
Publisher
Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in essays and graphic-narrative shorts, this memoir illustrates the author's struggles with addiction and motherhood and her ongoing efforts to reconcile the two, capturing the desire to look hopefully forward, while acknowledging the darkness of the past.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Whether he's describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder ("Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....") or the installations of Barbara Kruger ("Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are..."), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful. Indiana champions...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature, but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times best-selling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America's long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 316-317
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A two-volume edition of essays, selected by the author and his longtime editor, Jack Shoemaker, which reveals as never before the evolution of Berry's thoughts and concerns as a farmer, neighbor, citizen, teacher, activist, and ecological philosopher. -- adapted from publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Born from an essay selected by David Foster Wallace for 'The Best American Essays 2007,' [this book] is at once a biography of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a fascinating meditation on late-life creativity."--Front jacket flap.
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