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Lecture

by Mary Cappello ...

Series series Undelivered Lectures
"[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form."—The AtlanticIn twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening.Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with ... Read more

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"[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form."—The AtlanticIn twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening.Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with
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Life Breaks In

(A Mood Almanack)

by Mary Cappello ...

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on.This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world that impinges and infringes on us, but also regularly suffuses us with beauty and joy and wonder. You don't write that book as a linear ... Read more

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Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on.This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world that impinges and infringes on us, but also regularly suffuses us with beauty and joy and wonder. You don't write that book as a linear
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After Montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church, Brian Doyle, Lisa Ferreira, Vivian Gornick, Wayne Koestenbaum, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, Maggie Nelson, Jose Orduna, Elena Passarello, Kristen Radtke, Amy Scott, Jerald Walker, Marcia Aldrich, Robert Atwan, Mary Cappello, Danielle Cadena Deulen, E. J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Bret Lott, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lina M. Ferreira, Robin Hemley ...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and
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Called Back

My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life

by Mary Cappello ...

Foreword Book of the Year AwardIndependent Publishers Award (IPPY)Lambda Literary Award FinalistPublishing Triangle Award FinalistGAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for “Getting the News,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2009Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for “Getting the News”Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerilla ... Read more

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Foreword Book of the Year AwardIndependent Publishers Award (IPPY)Lambda Literary Award FinalistPublishing Triangle Award FinalistGAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for “Getting the News,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2009Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for “Getting the News”Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerilla
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Awkward

A Detour

by Mary Cappello ...

Los Angeles Times BestsellerMary Cappello[’s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed.” -MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected PoemsA wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.” -SARAH WATERS, author of The Night W... ... Read more

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Los Angeles Times BestsellerMary Cappello[’s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed.” -MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected PoemsA wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.” -SARAH WATERS, author of The Night W...
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The Friend (National Book Award Winner)

A Novel

by Sigrid Nunez ...

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy
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Fun Home

A Family Tragicomic

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book AwardAlison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.<... ... Read more

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book AwardAlison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.<...
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The Empathy Exams

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic
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The Situation and the Story

The Art of Personal Narrative

by Vivian Gornick ...

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that ... Read more

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A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that
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Half Empty

Essays

by David Rakoff ...

In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don’t Get Too Comfortable makes an inspired case for always assuming the worst—because then you’ll never be disappointed.Whether he’s taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or dealing with personal tragedy, Rakoff’s sharp observations and humorist’s flair for the absurd will ... Read more

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In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don’t Get Too Comfortable makes an inspired case for always assuming the worst—because then you’ll never be disappointed.Whether he’s taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or dealing with personal tragedy, Rakoff’s sharp observations and humorist’s flair for the absurd will
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Incidental Inventions

by Elena Ferrante ...

Translated by Ann Goldstein ...

"Fifty-one columns, short in length but long on wisdom" from the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, an HBO original series ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The ... Read more

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"Fifty-one columns, short in length but long on wisdom" from the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, an HBO original series ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath ...

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her ... Read more

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The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her
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