 | 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. ...
 |  | 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 ...
|  | Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 188184708X | ISBN-13: 978-1881847083Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories - sometimes shocking, sometimes sad, often funny, always immediate-told against a background of extreme violence and aggression, written by a prisoner on death row who has become a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Facing Unpleasant Facts
Publication Date: October 14, 2009George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge--in short, to think--as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as "Shooting an E...
|  | 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...
|  | Three Guineas
Publication Date: May 1, 1963The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women’s college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and “protect culture, and intellectual liberty.” This book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of feminine purpose. ...
|  | The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (Literature and Medicine)
Publication Date: January 28, 2009| Series: Literature and Medicine (Book 17) A collection revealing the joys, fears, intimacies, and transcendent moments shared by a nurse and her patients"The Heart's Truth should be required reading at every nursing school in the country. It offers a powerful and moving portrait of what it means to be a nurse. In writing that is of the highest quality, the reader is swept up in the drama of nursing and the compassion with which it is perfused."--Richard Selzer, surgeon and author"Davis has perfectly captured the broader arc of movement from awkward, insecu...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Basin and Range
Publication Date: April 1, 1982The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terr...
|  | 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...
|  | The Memory Chalet
Release Date: October 25, 2011Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Bookof the YearFinal reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian TonyJudt. Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other.Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into thelarger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus routebecomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells allcome alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhoodthrough Paris, Prague, and points east to New York, where he found hishome. Judt brings his...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
Publication Date: September 30, 2011For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas.These days, scholars show new interest in the importance of the concrete. This volume's special contribution is its focus on everyday riches: the simplest of objects--an apple, a datebook, a laptop co...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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 Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art
Publication Date: September 1, 1997Open the pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable mind of Guy Davenport, one of this countrys most provocative writers. Moving effortlessly from snakehandling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature. Open the pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable mind of Guy Davenport, one of this countrys most brilliant and provocative writers. Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus is better described as a collage of ideas, c...
|  | 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...
|  | The Sweet Science
Release Date: September 9, 2004A.J.Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was.It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all tim...
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