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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
145 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays in which the African-American author discusses the things she cares about, shares personal experiences, and offers her opinion on a wide variety of subjects, including age and sexuality, the burdens of fame, and rage and violence.
5) The cushion in the road: meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm's way
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xii, 365 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Essays revisiting themes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist has addressed throughout her career, exploring her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world: racism, Africa, solidarity with the Palestinian people, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Cuba, health care, and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
205 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard...
10) A small porch: Sabbath poems 2014 and 2015 together with The presence of nature in the natural world
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
More than thirty-five years ago, when the weather allowed, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks arranged themselves into poems and each year since he has completed a sequence dated by the year of its composition. Many of these poems are drawn from the view from a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream; the future of publishing and the origins of his novels.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxiv, 437 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers. A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he’s written, this volume sheds...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Throughout personal essays spiked with humor and natural science, archaeologist R. E. Burrillo widens his range beyond his popular Behind the Bears Ears. After an upstate New York childhood and a bartending stint in New Orleans' French Quarter, seasonal resort work led R. E. Burrillo to the desert Southwest, whose redrock landscapes were a source of stability through mental and physical illness. In The Backwoods of Everywhere, archaeologist Burrillo...
15) Festival days
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection that includes seven essays and two pieces of short fiction captures both the small moments of daily existence and times when life and death hang in the balance, including the title work about a searing journey through India."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustratons ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen essays about individual animals, including wild (woolly mammoth, rhinoceros, starling, crocodile, gorilla, lion) and domesticated (housecat, racing pigeons, elephant, horses, goats), named and made famous by humans.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis...
Author
Language
English
Description
Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one knows more about everything―especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling―than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas;...
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