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Summoning the Rains: Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers

de Hilda Twongyeirwe & Ellen Banda-Aaku

One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 2011 the third FEMRITE African Women Writers Residency alleviated this challenge for 15 women...

Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

de Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes,' Emerson wrote in Nature, his statement of the principles of transcendentalism. 'I...

Growing Girls

de Jeanne Marie Laskas

Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet...

A Plea for Eros

de Siri Hustvedt

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.

Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing,...

Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro

de Henry James, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi & Leon Edel

HENRY JAMES first came to Venice as a tourist and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters...

Povidky: Short Stories by Czech Women

de Nancy Hawker

Young women drift through Prague wondering about unplanned pregnancies, a child's reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulnesslead to resolve to sin only 'just a little bit', drunken men banter over interminable...

Letters To Lily: On how the world works

de Alan Macfarlane

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In...

The Pursuit of Laughter: Essays, Reviews and Diary

de Diana Mitford (Mosley), Deborah Devonshire (Mitford) & Duncan Fallowell

‘Roar with laughter.’ Laura Thompson ‘The dazzling beauty with a poison pen... wit pervades her writings.’ Anne de Courcey, Daily Mail Critics Choice 'When she wielded her elegant stiletto, it was to unmask...

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

de Lionel Trilling & Leon Wieseltier

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work

Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer...

Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women

de Roseanne Saad Khalaf

From Lebanon's golden age, through years of civil conflict and its aftermath, these women offer a captivating portrait of a country in flux. Well-known authors such as Emily Nasarallah, Hanan al-Shaykh and Alawiya...

Happy and Merry

de Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Just in time for Christmas comes a collection of the very best holiday essays from the bestselling Mother/Daughter writing duo. Whether their shopping for matching reindeer dog sweaters or having second helpings...

Coyote V. Acme

de Ian Frazier

Twenty-two humorous essays on topics ranging from Joseph Stalin's theories of revolutionary stand-up comedy, to a commencement address given by a Satanist college President, to the opening statement of an attorney...

Mystery and Manners

de Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald & Robert Fitzgerald

At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen...

Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody

de Ian Frazier

Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, Frazier raises journalism...

PunditMom's Mothers of Intention

de Joanne Bamberger

Mothers of Intention debunks the commonly held notion that motherhood renders women mute when it comes to public policy and electoral politics. With the authority of a veteran political commentator, Bamberger...

Words B Word, Right?

de MD, Cathy Lorraine Bagley

"Words B Word, Right?" completes Dr. Cathy Lorraine Bagley's trio of published word compositions (Word Plays & Stories and Love, Damn!) both released in 2011. It is presented in divided sections unconventionally...

A Slayer Comes to Town: An Essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

de Scott Westerfeld

From Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show: Scott Westerfeld analyzes the success of Buffy as a nontraditional "Trespass" story.

DON'T PRESS THAT BUTTON!: An Essay on James Bond

de J. A. Konrath

From James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007: J.A. Konrath's spy gagdget shopping list includes "usefulness" analyses and a cool-factor review.

You Tell Your Dog First

de Alison Pace

You 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...

Sex in Seattle: An Essay on Grey's Anatomy

de Jacqueline Carey

From Grey's Anatomy 101: Seattle Grace, Unauthorized: Jacqueline Carey explores the presence of sex in Grey's Anatomy and how it informs character interactions in a way that is refreshingly realistic.