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A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut  
Publisher Comments A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To...
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
by Wendell Berry
Publisher Comments Essential essays are included in this volume from Wendell Berry's writings onagrarianism, agriculture, and community....
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is — by her own admission — the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974...
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Armageddon in Retrospect
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death — a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence. Armageddon in...
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Things I Learned about My Dad: (In Therapy) Humorous and Heartfelt Essays
by Heather Armstrong Synopsis Perfectly timed for Father's Day, this collection of hilarious stories by some of the brightest and most outrageous bloggers celebrates the joys (and otherwise) of fatherhood....
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For the Time Being
by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments National Bestseller Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener.--Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and...
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The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass Publisher Comments A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the...
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Real Sofistikashun : Essays on Poetry and Craft (06 Edition)
by Tony Hoagland Publisher Comments The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of "What Narcissism Means to Me," explores metaphor, tone, rhetorical and compositional strategies with the vigorous, conversational style less of the scholar than of the...
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Jay Allison Publisher Comments Based on the NPR series of the same name, "This I Believe" is an inspiring collection of the personal philosophies and core values of a fascinating group of Americans....
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
by David Samuels Publisher Comments A brilliant journalist takes us on a skewed odyssey through an american populated by idealists and outsiders in his first book, reminiscent of the classic new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Writing for Harper's magazine and the New Yorker over...
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project
by Dave Isay Publisher Comments Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones. In its two permanent public...
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
by John Gardner Publisher Comments John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of...
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Nine Gates : Entering the Mind of Poetry (97 Edition)
by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps...
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I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron Publisher Comments With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of...
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Nature and Other Writings
by Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments These selections from the best-loved of Emerson's writings contain some of the most treasured and important expressions of his thought....
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
by Phillip Lopate Publisher Comments The first anthology devoted to the literary form known as the personal essay. A compilation of more than 60 selections by such masters as Plutarch, Montaigne, Orwell, Baldwin, Tanizaki, and Woolf, as well as contemporary personal essayists from...
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments In this book, Baxter offers several sharp, articulate, and provocative essays that examine the many forces currently shaping contemporary American fiction. As noted in The Washington Times: "What elevates this collection from the status of technical...
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Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
by E B White Publisher Comments Good-bye to Forty-eighth StreetTurtle Bay, November 12, 1957 For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter. I...
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Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
by Barbara Hurd
Publisher Comments Evocative nature writing in the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams and Gretel Ehrlich Barbara Hurd continues to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone. With...
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
by William Styron Publisher Comments After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a...
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