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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

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • 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

    $22.79 USD

  • 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

    $33.29 USD