Essays category: 9344 books
How to Travel with a Salmon
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly).
A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both...
We Learn Nothing
Essays and Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
**“Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity’s inventive and manifold ways of failing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths...
by Scaachi Koul
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFE
In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
—Oliver...
Small Wonder
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider...
CRUSH
Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.
You never forget your first crush . . .
CRUSH...
More Matter
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs...
Reading for My Life
Writings, 1958-2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Right up until his death in 2008, John Leonard was a lion in American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. He reviewed the most celebrated writers of his age—from Kurt Vonnegut and Joan Didion to Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon....
When I First Held You
22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transfo rmative Experience of Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From some of today’s most critically acclaimed writers**—including Dennis Lehane, Justin Cronin, Andre Dubus III, and Benjamin Percy—*****comes a rich collection of essays on what it means to be a dad. ***
Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating,...
Never Can Say Goodbye
Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That*: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York*, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City.
The “charming” (The New York Times) first anthology Goodbye to All That—inspired by Joan...
This Old Man
All in Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life.
Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and...
A Passion for Books
A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting , Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.
Booklovers will find themselves in good...
Proxies
Essays Near Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Winner of the Whiting Award, nonfictionPast compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus—that begin to unpack the essayist himself and...
by Lisa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and...