Category - Literary Collections
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At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness ha...
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Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellec...
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Plastic: An Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! “Plastic is power...
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Sobre cuentos, historias y literatura fantástica: ¡Para que puedas leer mejor y disfrutar más las historias!
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Esta recopilación reúne nueve ensayos que recogen sus ideas sobre la ficción, entre ellos "Sobre cuentos", "The Death of Words" y "On Three Ways ...
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Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /With the tragic and bloody ending to the optimistic 1960s in Los Angeles's fabled hills, the 1970s became a defining decade in the city. Marked b...
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from "America's greatest p...
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.A ...
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively…loves it...
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of thi...
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Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review, Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underground and showcases in over 170 interviews what...
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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence. From medieval accusations...
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker—slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud ...
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The Book of Explanations
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From one of Mexico’s premier poets, the award-winning Tedi López Mills, a hybrid, genre-defying book of essays following the unusual and surprisi...
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Empathy: Readings for Writers
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Humans relate to one another in many ways, but no connections are as deep as those built around shared experiences. Empathy invites us to feel ot...
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Once Again for Thucydides
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen “micro-epics” written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the P...
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Intentions
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to ...
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An Old Lion Roars at Dementia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /There is no more precious experience than a human life with all its sharp elbows and soft spots. Yet when one's life is complete, we satisfy ours...
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The Star Thrower
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A collection of the author’s favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley’s entire writing career and provide a s...
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Critical Writings: New Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inv...
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Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. ...
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The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this centr...
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Please Don't Drink the Holy Water!: Homeschool Days, Rosary Nights, and Other Near Occasions of Sin
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Come along as wry homeschooler Susie Lloyd faces the trials of family Rosary, and tangles with snide education experts, gruff confessors, and pus...
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Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /He is an American treasure, a clear-eyed fantasist without peer, and a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades....
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Selections from Plato / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text, which contains the complete Greek text of the Apology and of Crito with other selections, offers an introduction to Plato’s la...
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