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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity-thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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Description
"A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling authorand famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks...
Publisher
[Michael Malice]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Anarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society--and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself--anarchism--is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in many colors.The Anarchist Handbook is an opportunity for all these many varied voices to speak for themselves, from across the decades. These were human beings who saw things differently...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating technologies for material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual...
Publisher
MTV Entertainment Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Through a series of essays, poems and comics, thirty creators--including Melissa de la Cruz, Edmund Lee, Nathan Ramos-Park and Ellen K. Pao--give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity.
15) Winter
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
254 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 771 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this definitive volume includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture,...
18) The essays
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xviii, 313 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 60s, Ntozake Shange was a young student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know it. Sing a Black Girl's Song is a new posthumous collection of unpublished works from throughout the life of this seminal...
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