 | Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Release Date: February 4, 1997In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us."Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art."--Los Angeles Tim...
 |  | Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible port...
|  | The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
Publication Date: November 4, 2002| Series: Harvest Book (Book 260) “We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.”In these seven witty, lucid, and tough-minded essays, the famous, infamous Screwtape makes a special appearance, proposing a toast that brilliantly explores the many opportunities for exploiting evil in the world. Lewis also considers the evidence for whether and how prayer works, plays with th...
|  | You Tell Your Dog First
Release Date: November 6, 2012You Tell Your Dog First… About the date you just had…about the questionable results of a medical test…about the good and the bad…about everything. For years, award-winning author Alison Pace was a dog person without a dog. And then, she got Carlie—a feisty and fluffy West Highland white terrier. She could weed out bad boyfriends with a sniff of her button-black nose and win the hearts of lifelong friends with an adoring gaze. Suddenly, Alison had a constant companion and confidante, who went with her on long morning ra...
|  | Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
Release Date: October 10, 2006How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the sexes? Welcome to Monkeyluv, a curious and entertaining collection of essays about the human animal in all its fascinating variety, from Robert M. Sapolsky, America's most ...
|  | Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Vintage)
Release Date: October 6, 2009| Series: Vintage "Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In he...
|  | Grantland Issue 2
Publication Date: April 10, 2012Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Grantland, the popular website founded and edited by Bill Simmons. It features the best long-form sports and culture writing from the site as well as new print exclusives, delivered in a lavishly designed, full-color book. Issue 2 has a dust jacket that unfolds to reveal a double-sided poster with an intricate, gorgeous piece of original art on one side, and, on the reverse, a reprint of the rare 1970s poster of George "The Ice Man" Gervin from Nike.Issue 2 also includes:-Bill Simmons writing about...
|  | The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction
Release Date: July 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 1555975046 | ISBN-13: 978-1555975043A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, “one of America’s finest writers” (Tom Perrotta) Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of w...
|  | Sacred Monsters
Publication Date: January 10, 2012Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts, contributing to publications as varied The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, House and Garden, and the New York Review of Books. In Sacred Monsters, White collects more than twenty of his most recent writings on artists and authors, including John Cheever, Patti Smith, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, Paul Bowles, Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Vladimir Nabokov, Auguste Rodin, Edith Wharton, Christopher Is...
|  | Tree and Leaf
Publication Date: February 5, 2001Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle', together with the poem 'Mythopoeia' and the verse drama, 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth', which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate...
|  | Orthodoxy (Moody Classics)
Release Date: June 1, 2009| Series: Moody Classics Now with a new foreword by Charles Colson.Antiquated. Unimaginative.Repressive. We've all heard these common reactions to orthodox Christian beliefs.Even Christians themselves are guilty of the tendency to discard historic Christianity.As Charles Colson writes in the foreword, "Evangelicals, despite their professedbelief in the Bible, have not been exempt from the influence of the postmodern spirit."Thisspirit is averse to Truth and the obedience that follows. And people today, as inChesterton's day, continue to look anywhere but heavenward ...
|  | I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams
Publication Date: April 6, 2012 From the preface by SF legend Bruce Sterling: "Dery...brandishes a Diogenes lantern as the the smoke thickens on every side. ... Beset with Google erudition, [these essays] tackle a dizzying set of topics--even within the essays, within the very sentences, there are dizzying arrays of topics. ... He's very good at going into areas of culture you wouldn't care to visit yourself, and performing autopsies. He assesses each bone and organ in detail. Not in acrowd-pleasing way--he doesn't prettify it, culture-industrialize it andbuild a gift-shop at the door. ...
|  | Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Release Date: September 9, 2004New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir. ...
|  | Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Publication Date: December 1, 2008With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from The Believer magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they actually exist in people's lives. Hornby is a voracious and unapologetic reader, and his notes on books — highbrow and otherwise — are always accessible and hilarious. ...
|  | The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
Release Date: October 25, 2005In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the sky. Whether as the Christian dove, or Quetzalcoatl—the Aztec Plumed Serpent—or in Plato’s vision of the human soul growin...
|  | The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
Release Date: July 2, 2002“I’ve changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit.”Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s before she even puts on a bra.For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers with her wildly amusing autobiographical exploits and unique life experiences. Sh...
|  | Consumer Society in American History: A Reader
Release Date: September 2, 1999| ISBN-10: 0801484863 | ISBN-13: 978-0801484865Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism has received little serious attention from historians and other scholars.This welcome volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date. The first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the...
|  | Listening Below the Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence
Release Date: February 2, 2010 When Anne D. LeClaire decided to turn an ordinary Monday into a day of silence, little did she realize she had begun an inner voyage that would transform her life. In the seventeen years since, LeClaire has practiced total silence two days each month. By detaching herself from the bustle of her hectic lifestyle and learning to listen to her deepest self, she has found a center from which to live—one that tests, strengthens, and heals her. In practicing silence, she has discovered her own secret garden—a cloistered, sacred private place where true ...
|  | Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
Release Date: September 21, 2011America's story has always been best told in its newspapers.From the local and mundane-crime blotters, crop prices, and Sundaysermons-to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played anoutsized role in our nation's culture and history. Newspapers in Americahave always been the crucible where our passions and debates are tried bythe only judge this nation respects: public opinion. At a time of greattransition in the news media, Deadline Artists celebrates therelevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellentwriting. It is an ins...
|  | Silk Parachute
Release Date: March 1, 2011A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE’S PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here—highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a ...
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