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Include books by the same authorDays of Reading
Marcel Proust · 128 pages
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel · 381 pages
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 129 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m
Writing
Marguerite Duras, Mark Polizzotti
" Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces
Encounter
Milan Kundera · 192 pages
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Jeanette Winterson · 192 pages
"Jeanette Winterson argues in this collection for the importance of art in all our lives. In ten intertwined essays, the acclaimed author of such recent novels as Written on the Body and Art & Lies proposes art as an active force in the world - neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting even those who don't." "An act of courage and effrontery, a uniquely human endeavo
On Being Blue
William H. Gass · 91 pages
The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit · 259 pages
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson · 304 pages
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
A Circle of Quiet
Madeleine L'Engle · 245 pages
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes · 237 pages
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
Charles Baudelaire · 224 pages
"Charles Baudelaire, the nineteenth-century French poet and writer, has also been called 'the father of modern criticism'. This stimulating volume gathers together some of his most celebrated critical writings."--Amazon.
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Holly Black, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link
Contains: Introduction by Cassandra Clare Unhomely Places by Kate Milford The Art of War by Sarah Cross Sharper Than a Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund When Laws Are Made to Be Broken by Robin Wasserman Simon Lewis: Jewish, Vampire, Hero by Michelle Hodkin Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake Asking for a Friend by Gwenda Bond (Not) Fo
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle · 352 pages
"Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading A Book Is A Sign Of Order In The World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, d
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books
Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Leigh Hunt, E.M. Forster · 96 pages
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
Jorge Luis Borges · 205 pages
MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction
Chad Harbach · 312 pages
"Chad Harbach and contributors map out the 'two cultures' of American fiction: MFA programs and NYC publishing. In a widely read essay titled 'MFA vs. NYC,' bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors and
Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series
Diana Peterfreund, Lili Wilkinson, Robin Wasserman, Linda Gerber, Charles Beaumont, Ted Chiang, Sara Beth Durst, Will Shetterly, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Gail Sidonie Sobat, Delia Sherman, J. Fitzgerald McCurdy, Rosemary Clement-Moore, Janette Rallison · 236 pages
Set in a future where cosmetic surgery is a requirement at age 16 and attractiveness is mandated, Scott Westerfelds popular Uglies series has received critical acclaim from the press and public alike. Chock-full of action, adventure and teenage rebellion, theres no question why Uglies has attracted thousands of fans. In Mind- Rain, popular authors examine the series and delve into the underlying t
The Language Of The Night: Essays On Fantasy And Science Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin · 276 pages
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Salman Rushdie · 439 pages
This collection of essays covers such topics as the literature of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression.
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Jonathan Lethem · 437 pages
A career-spanning anthology of writings incorporates several new essays and includes numerous celebrity portraits as well as the author's musings on topics ranging from sex in cinema and drugs to cyberculture and graffiti.
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003
Roberto Bolano · 400 pages
Shadow and Act
Ralph Ellison · 317 pages
"With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque lands