That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin the single defended piece of glass.
FollowingImagined Places, Pearson continues exploring place and writing as he mentally revisits locations that have influenced him through his lifechildhood home, family vacations, the various places hes taught, etc.
Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.
In The City at Three PM, award-winning fiction writer Peter LaSalle offers 11 startlingly original personal essays dealing with his longtime quest for world travel of the literary sort.
Nearly ten years after her husband was killed in a car accident-and three days before the 2003 release of her first edition of this book-Paula Moulton took a risk and enrolled in a ten-month wine management program at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W.
I taught undergraduates for forty-five years (the last thirty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee), and for most of those years I spent as much time as possible outside.
Old Mother, Little Catis a highly readable memoir of Gerbers mothers decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerbers finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten).
"e;Werner's prose is compelling, his natural history is thoroughly engaging, and his line of curious inquiry is an admirable attempt to better understand humanity and its changing relationship with the external world.
A collection of narrative essays on family, history, and travel from Croation American Josip Novakovich, a Whiting Writers' Award winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics' Circle Award for CriticismBy one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the political experience of collective pain.
An ';entertaining collection of tributes and insights' from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist).
"e;Thoughtful, candid"e; essays from the National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Sophie's Choice (The Christian Science Monitor).
A collection of occasional essays, a series of meditations on the book industry as it transitions to its electronic future, and a reader on modern publishing, The Three Percent Problem stands alongside Andre Schiffrin's The Business of Books and Jason Epstein's Book Business as primers on the publishing industry.
In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink.
This brave and moving collection of stories by South African lesbian women from different backgrounds reminds us, again, that rights are never finally won in legislatures or in court rooms.
This brave and moving collection of stories by South African lesbian women from different backgrounds reminds us, again, that rights are never finally won in legislatures or in court rooms.
This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me questioneverything I think about musicals Alan CummingA book for those who can t stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between.
The Food Almanac II is an annual, seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.
Just before the First World War destroyed a generation and divided Europe for almost a century, a farmer in a remote part of Aberdeenshire sat down at the age forty-three to write his thoughts on how to live a good life.
Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard's world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading the bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a voice on a VHF radio far out to sea, a family of itinerant Mexicans camping dangerously in a dry riverbed, a famous alcoholic writer, and a few inexplicable ghosts.
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range.
