 | A Collection of Essays
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by Harcourt
Paperback
(01 June, 1970)
(16 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Imagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would result. Can we say "narcissism"? As part of the Imperial Police in Burma, |
 | A Defense of Ardor : Essays
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
(27 October, 2004)
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 | A Room of One's Own
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by Harvest Books
Paperback
(27 December, 1989)
(27 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, |
 | A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again : Essays and Arguments Tag: Author of
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback
(02 February, 1998)
(74 reviews)
Customer Review: Is DFW a white male East-Coast elitist pig? Hmmm?: Since the publication of A Supposedly Fun Thing... DFW's been the target of some erudite name-calling. |
 | Against Interpretation : And Other Essays
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by Picador
Paperback
(25 August, 2001)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Sontag's best book: To begin with: It is time for people to stop ranting about Ms. Sontag's opinions about 9-11. LET IT GO, PEOPLE! |
 | Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
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by Atlantic Monthly Press
Paperback
(01 September, 1996)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: Readers can be excused for a little motion sickness when reading this collection of pieces from P.J. O'Rourke. To go from preaching "Armed Love" (whatever that is) to being anointed as the ultra-libertarian Cato Institute's favorite humorist in only 25 years is an astounding transformation. |
 | Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback
(25 September, 2000)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Not only good for academics...: Northrop Frye provides you with structures common to Western literature, which is a great education.T |
 | Aunties : Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(13 April, 2004)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: Memories of my aunties: As a young girl growing up, the time I spent with my mom's three sisters was always special: the shopping trips, |
 | Best American Political Writing 2004
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by Thunder's Mouth Press
Paperback
(10 October, 2004)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: A Brief View of Politics in America: This book is a collection of essays written by different people in journalism and politics. |
 | Big Rigs, Elvis & The Grand Dragon Wayne
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by Whistlers & Jugglers Press
Paperback
(01 November, 1999)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: You won't be disappointed: Michael Perry's essays are some of the best pieces of writing I have read. His insights always ring true and his words dance across the page in a rhythm that is never disappointing. |
 | Birdbaths and Paper Cranes: A Family Tale
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by Gale Group
Hardcover
(01 September, 2001)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: Beautifully written memoirs!: This book is a guarantee to make you reminisce and cry and laugh along with Sharon Randall as she writes of her life. |
 | Booknotes : America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
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by Three Rivers Press
Paperback
(19 May, 1998)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: For anyone that enjoys history or biographies: This is one of the books that is long overdue for a book review by me. I stumbled across this book about 6 years ago and it should have been one of the first books I reviewed for amazon. |
 | Collected Prose
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by Knopf
Hardcover
(26 October, 2004)
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 | Cop Tales 2000
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by Thirty Eight Special Pr
Paperback
(01 January, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Real stories about police work: I loved reading this book because I always wondered what being a police officer was like. The stories in Cop Tales 2000 made me feel as though I was right there on the street with the cops. |
 | Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
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by Scribner
Paperback
(21 October, 2003)
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 | Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(14 September, 1998)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: One of Barry's best: Some of my favorite Dave Barry books are his collections of columns, particularly because I never seem to be able to keep up with his weekly column in the Sunday paper. |
 | Disappearing Ink : Poetry at the End of Print Culture
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by Graywolf Press
Paperback
(01 October, 2004)
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 | Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations
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by Harvest/HBJ Book
Paperback
(01 January, 1999)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: Guts and Genius: Ms. Merkin dares to bare her soul and takes on a lot of PC thinking. How is this "anti-woman"? In fact, she is shows us the sort of courage and bravery that makes a good feminist!P |
 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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by Little, Brown
Hardcover
(01 June, 2004)
(123 reviews)
Customer Review: America's funniest man: When I first saw this book advertised, I just noticed the title and picture on the cover and thought, "Oh, |
 | Esquire's Big Book of Great Writing : More than 70 Years of Celebrated Journalism
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by Hearst
Paperback
(28 September, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Unspeakably Good: This is probably one of the finest collections of creative non-fiction and journalism ever compiled. Nearly every piece held within its covers is golden. |
 | Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
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by Perennial
Paperback
(01 June, 1999)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: America's Finest Collection of Essays in the 20th Century.: Although he is best known for his children's books, including Charlotte's Web and the Trumpet of the Swan, |
 | Essays
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by Everyman's Library
Hardcover
(15 October, 2002)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Worthy collection that comes tragically close to excellence.: It's a little unfair to try and assign a grade to a life-spanning collection of essays like this one. |
 | Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Paperback
(25 November, 2000)
(71 reviews)
Customer Review: A Book Lover's Delight: If you can't imagine anything more enjoyable than spending time with someone who treasures books as least as much as you do, |
 | Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 July, 1999)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Almost all of Murdoch's philosophizing in a single package: Except for Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, which is disorganized and verges on the incoherent, |
 | First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer
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by David R. Godine Publisher
Paperback
(01 December, 1990)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A fine, though dated, intro. to a rural life in Vermont: I just finished the last half of this book last night. Perrin's book is a droll but always honest take on the country life in his beloved adopted "homeland" of Vermont as he alerts the reader to the realities behind the romantic vision portrayed on various Maple syrup containers. |
 | For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
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by Verso
Hardcover
(01 July, 1993)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports: 'For the sake of argument, one must never let a euphemism or a false consolation pass uncontested. |
 | For the Time Being
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by Vintage
Paperback
(08 February, 2000)
(64 reviews)
Customer Review: This is a Book for Thinkers: Annie Dillard has a style unique to herself. She is able to change direction of her book's subjects drastically but continue to hold the readers attention with odd, |
 | George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940 : The Collected Essays, Journalism &
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by Nonpareil Books
Paperback
(01 August, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Inside the Mind of the 20th Century: I'm not going to review all four volumes of this collection separately; what I say below applies to them all.T |
 | George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters
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by Nonpareil Books
Paperback
(01 August, 2000)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: I think Orwell does the world well: While the recently published one-volume Essays is a worthy surrogate, nothing will beat this four volume collection. |
 | Here Is New York
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by Little Bookroom
Hardcover
(01 July, 1999)
(16 reviews)
Editorial Review: "On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow thegift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." So begins E.B. White's classic meditation on that noisiest, most public of American cities. |
 | High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
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by Perennial
Paperback
(09 October, 1996)
(34 reviews)
Customer Review: Hermit Crabs have new meaning for us . . .: This well-written and entertaining book was partially responsible for my move to Tucson. |
 | Holidays on Ice: Stories
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by Little, Brown
Hardcover
(December, 1997)
(101 reviews)
Editorial Review: Holidays on Ice is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another common thread through the book, |
 | Homeland
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by Seven Stories Press
Hardcover
(04 July, 2004)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent and Educational: When I picked up this book I was intrigued with his concept of a journey across the country to document the changes in American consciousness since 9/11. |
 | Hooking Up
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by Picador
Paperback
(12 October, 2001)
(49 reviews)
Customer Review: Wolfe is the Mac-Daddy of American Greatness: If you love living in America, if you're thrilled by the raw courage of entrepeneurial effort that explodes into success, |
 | How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought)
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(25 August, 1998)
(18 reviews)
Editorial Review: A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, |
 | How to Be Alone: Essays
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by Picador
Paperback
(01 October, 2003)
(28 reviews)
Customer Review: A Celebration of Reading, Writing, and LIfe: A reviewer of one of Jonathan Franzen's earlier novels wrote that Franzen, through his work, |
 | Idyll Banter : Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town
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by Harmony
Hardcover
(16 December, 2003)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: The Personal, Concentrated, Becomes Universal: Much as I love novels, there are times when short, pithy, engaging non-fiction is exactly what I feel like reading. |
 | In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George
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by Nonpareil Books
Paperback
(01 August, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Fascinating insight into Orwell's evolving political beliefs: This fourth and final volume of collected essays, articles and letters of Orwell covers the years from the onset of the Cold War till Orwell's premature death in 1950. |
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