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• Author(s): Atwan, Robert • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: EssaysA collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The worl...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back CoverThe Best American Series (r) Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you ...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back CoverThe Best American Series In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does ...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysSelected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild and the writer of the celebrated column "Dear Sugar,"...

• Author(s): Walter Benjamin • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: CriticismA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century--as selected by Hannah Arendt and including ...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back CoverThe Best American Series(r) A true essay is something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on th...

• Author(s): Louis Menand • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfict...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back CoverThe Best American Series(r)First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the cou...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysA collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (...

• Author(s): Susan Orlean • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's s...

• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: European - Italian"Wonderful... Calvino's prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysThis year's Best American Essays is edited by the best-selling, award-winning writer Kathleen Norris, whose books include Dakota andThe Virgin ...

• Author(s): Richard Dawkins • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonf...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysA clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the "conscience of his generation" and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the...

• Author(s): Mary Oliver • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: American - GeneralEdited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this "rich and thoughtful collection" (Publishers Weekl...

• Author(s): Alexander Chee • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysNamed a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay colle...

• Author(s): David Foster Wallace • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysThe twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of perio...

• Author(s): Andre Aciman • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysA collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the ch...

• Author(s): Hilton Als • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: American - GeneralThe Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websit...

• Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysThis singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as...

• Author(s): Jia Tolentino | Kim Dana Kupperman • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Essays"The essay has taught me how to live," writes Jia Tolentino, this year's Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of ...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysBest-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a ...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Essays"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in ...

• Author(s): Adam Gopnik • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: American - GeneralHere you will find the finest essays "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New York...

• Author(s): Rebecca Solnit • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysA collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. "Essays are restless literature, trying to ...

• Author(s): Leslie Jamison • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: American - General"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essa...

• Author(s): Donald Hall • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back Cover Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge. ...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the Back CoverThe Best American Series(r)First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the cou...

• Author(s): Lytton Strachey • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysA companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakesp...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: EssaysThe essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orw...

• Author(s): Henry Geldzahler • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Movements - ModernismFrom the Back CoverFor the past 35 years, Henry Geldzahler, controversial first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's ...

• Author(s): Ian Tattersall • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyNothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins, and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall. What m...

• Author(s): Lytton Strachey • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysThirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, b...

• Author(s): Amos Oz • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." --Washington Post Book World Amo...

• Author(s): Cazzie David • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Form - EssaysFrom writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social media, anxiety, relationships, and gro...

• Author(s): Robert Atwan • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: EssaysIn her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to t...