Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah.
Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah.
The book Howl Softly is an assortment of poems, essays, stories written over many years and then embedded into a larger work using several fictitious characters.
This delightful collection brings together five short stories and eight essays on writing by Newbery Medal-winning author Nancy WillardNancy Willard's gift for bringing out the whimsical in all of us illuminates this memorable anthology.
Witty and deftly drawn parodies from a literary legendRoger Angell has a long history with the New Yorker: the son of fiction editor Katharine White and the stepson of E.
A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America's most cherished humoristsFirst published in 1985, Not Exactly What I Had In Mind is Roy Blount Jr.
A collection of short pieces about everything from genius and God to socks and lentils, from one of America’s most beloved humor writersOne Fell Soup brings together the reviews, diatribes, investigations, meditations, and poetry of Roy Blount Jr.
Reading and romance, gardening tips, a farewell to a friend, even an opera retold make up this stellar collection from the bestselling author of The Group and Memories of a Catholic GirlhoodThis intriguing nonfiction collection by Mary McCarthy is a cornucopia of literary delights that challenges the mind and captivates the senses.
Jane Rule's fourth book explores lesbianism as portrayed by authors from Gertrude Stein to Colette, from Vita Sackville-West to May Sarton and Willa CatherLesbian Images opens with a disclaimer from the author: "e;This book is not intended to be a comprehensive literary or cultural history of lesbians.
The essays in this inspiring collection analyze the craft of writing and the art of living and loving Jane Rule shares her insights into the creative process, sexual fidelity, feminist politics, and the transformative power of love.
A collection of insightful essays, interviews, and commentaries on music, art, and those who make it, from acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned RoremIt is a rare artist who can deftly cross the boundaries separating one artistic endeavor from another.
Ned Rorem explores the state of contemporary classical music in a magnificent collection of personally selected essays and critiques of masterworks, lesser works, and their legendary creatorsPulitzer Prize winner Ned Rorem's musical compositions are considered some of the finest produced in the past century.
A collection of critical essays from award-winning author Dorothy Allison about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new prefaceLambda Award and American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality.
The first collection of nonfiction from the author Tony Kushner calls "e;one of the best novelists writing in the world today"e;Over a thirty-year period, novelist Christopher Bram witnessed, and lived through, the powerful experiences of coming out, the AIDS epidemic, gay marriage, and the social changes that have occurred in lower Manhattan.
A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary GordonMuch acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868 - 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
Darrell Schweitzer's third collection of essays and reviews, a successor to the well-received "e;Windows of the Imagination"e; and "e;The Fantastic Horizon,"e; is a balanced mixture of scholarship and entertainment, ranging over the entire spectrum of imaginative literature, from the oldest novel in the world (1st century B.
These are essays, indeed, but generally not the sort taught in schools -- or that I taught for forty years: not in the elegant Intro/Thesis/Proof/Conclusion tradition but more in the older tradition of Michel de Montaigne and les essais, and of satire.
In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic-his love for the written word.
Peering Through a Frosted Window is a collection of essays and poems written by authors Virginia Monti and Andrea Monti Riffe some of which are memoir and others are merely ideas and insights from their imagination.
Employing a sure, swift eye and supple prose, Renate Model reveals the agonies and appetites of a range of characters, from adolescents testing their limits to the Diva, a charmingly self-absorbed dachshund with an intriguing interior life.
An extraordinary wide-ranging collection of essays with distinctive wordplay and quirky opinionsChristopher Buckley is good company whether youre looking for two quick pages and a smile, or want to linger (The New York Times Book Review).
*A People Top 10 Book of 2018* The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.
"e;Bearing aloft the flag of his country in the final charge"e; by Company A, 103rd New York Volunteers at the Battle of Antietam, Captain Henry Augustus Sand fell wounded.
This is the first complete publication of a rare collection of letters and poems written from 1790 to 1792--many of which have never appeared in print--telling the true story of Peter Heywood, a young Royal Navy midshipman on H.
