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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by author | publication date The Education of a British-Protected Child Essays Chinua Achebe From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe's characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen... The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the... The End of San Francisco Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Just in! An elegy for the dream of a radical queer community, and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace D. T. Max The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his... Everybody into the Pool True Tales Beth Lisick Beth Lisick is the best kind of storyteller -- utterly original, naturally hilarious, wisely observant, and completely down-to-earth. Those who like David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Marjane Satrapi or Julie Doucet will absolutely love this book. The Stiffest of the Corpse An Exquisite Corpse Reader Andrei Codrescu The Stiffest of the Corpse brings together the best of the radical journal of books and ideas that galvanized the tepid literary world of the 1980s. Talk, erudition and savagery join here for a truly international assault on a mass hypnosis and image... Facing Unpleasant Facts George Orwell George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George... Fate, Time, and Language An Essay on Free Will David Foster Wallace, Steven M. Cahn, Maureen Eckert In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the... Finding Beauty in a Broken World Terry Tempest Williams "Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American... Fire in the Belly The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz Cynthia Carr The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death. In December 2010, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it... Helping Me Help Myself One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone Beth Lisick Beth Lisick emerges as one of the great storytellers of our generation, joining the ranks of David Foster Wallace and Cintra Wilson with her hilarious and poignant tales of immersion into the million-dollar self-help industry. Henry and June From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) Anais Nin This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book... Homage to Catalonia George Orwell "I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets." Most war correspondents... House of Prayer No. 2 A Writer's Journey Home Mark Richard Based on its subject matter and jacket copy, this might have been an inspirational memoir. But in Mark Richard's hands, the story of his own life is weird and unsettling and haunting and very much like an ocean hiding outlandish fauna somewhere beneath... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>