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The Devil Never Sleeps: And Other Essays
Andrei Codrescu
The Devil is alive and well and living in America, Andrei Codrescu tells us, and with good reason. Nowhere else in the world—not even in Codrescu's native Transylvania—is he taken quite as seriously. When Codrescu gently derided the fundamentalist Christian belief in Rapture ("a pre-apo...
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Freedom of the Poet
John Berryman
John Berryman,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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$14.74
Trillin on Texas
Calvin Trillin
"Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so's you'd know it." So Calvin Trillin introduces this collection of articles and poems about a place that turns up surprisingly often when he's ostensibly writing about something else. Whether reporting on th...
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Home: What It Means and Why It Matters
Mary Gordon
Where do you live? The answer to this seemingly simple question can be more complicated than you'd think.Drawing on personal experience, Mary Gordon examines various forms of abode-from her childhood house in Far Rockaway to apartments in Palo Alto, Rome, and the Upper West Side-as well as the ve...
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Sunrise with Seamonsters
Paul Theroux
The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold.
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$10.36
Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay
T. Fleischmann
T Fleischmann,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Sarabande Books
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$16.32
Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
Ariel Sabar
From the NBCC Award-winning author of My Father’s Paradise, a “sparkling love letter to the city”--BookPage
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$75.59
Swiftly Sterneward: Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New
W. Gerard (Editor), E. Taylor (Editor), Robert Walker (Editor), W. Day, Frank Palmeri, Contributio
W. Gerard (Editor), E Taylor (Editor), Robert Walker (Editor), Contribution by W Day, Contribution by Frank Palmeri, Contribution by Eric Rothstein, Contribution by Taylor Corse, Contribution by James May, Contribution by Elizabeth Kraft, Contribution by
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A Miscellany of Men (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Barnes & Noble Digital Library, English-language edition,Pub by Barnes & Noble on 03-22-2011
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$8.19
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Arte Publico Press
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$3.39
Another Sheaf
John Galsworthy
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally im...
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$10.16
The Best American Essays 2011
Edwidge Danticat (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor)
The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special gu...
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Broken Vessels: Essays
Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus,NOOK Book (eBook) - B&N epub, English-language edition,Pub by Open Road Publishing on 11-23-2010
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$9.86
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, Windsor Mann (Editor), Martin Amis
Christopher Hitchens, Windsor Mann (Editor), Foreword by Martin Amis,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Da Capo Press on 05-10-2011
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$3.39
Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Tim Parks
Hell And Back offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging, always provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing. The lead essay on Dante sets the tone for the entire collection: erudite, contemplative, witty, and meticulous, it constantly offers new insights into The Inferno...
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Silk Parachute
John McPhee
A 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 o...
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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Walker Percy
The author's first collection of non-fiction comprises 15 essays that combine the insights and methods of the epistemologist, the linguist and the novelist.
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$16.86
Color Me English: Thoughts About Migrations and Belonging Before and After 9/11
Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by New Press, The
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The Case Of Wagner
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Case Against Wagner was one Nietzsche's last books, and his wittiest. In Wagner's music, in his doctrine, in his whole concept of art, Nietzsche saw the confirmation, the promotion, even the encouragement, of that decadence and degeneration which is now rampant in Europe; and it is for this r...
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Deliriously Happy
Larry Doyle
Larry Doyle,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 11-08-2011