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Fraud
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills...
Essential
Essays by The Minimalists
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The best of The Minimalists.
This book by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays—some short, some long—from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com. This collection has been edited and organized to create an experience that's considerably...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Series 1 and 2. According to Wikipedia: "Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. Emerson gradually moved away...
Some Remarks
Essays and Other Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and both at the...
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
Selected Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism*
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice*
*A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner*
Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true...
Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most...
Modern Love
True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
50 Irresistible True Accounts of Love in the Twenty-first Century.
A young woman wryly describes a relationship that races from start to finish almost entirely via text messages.
A Casanova is jilted after an idyllic three weeks and learns the hard way that the woman is, well, just not...
Meaty
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page in her uproarious first collection of essays.
Irby laughs her way through tragicomic mishaps, neuroses, and taboos as she struggles through adulthood: chin hairs, depression,...
Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies
Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“Brilliant, hysterical, truthful, and real, these essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders.”—Reese Witherspoon
A diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists open up about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal...
Invisible 2
Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
19 essays on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author Aliette de Bodard. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust.
Full table of contents:
Introduction, by Aliette de Bodard...
Yes, My Accent Is Real
And Some Other Things I Haven't Told You
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory.
Of all the charming misfits on television,...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.
Ranging across subjects...
The Lost Childhood
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
From Dickens to Wilde—literary criticism and personal reflections by a master “unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights” (The New York Times).
Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate...