Alpine Apprentice by Sarah Gorham; John Griswold (Contribution by)
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay | Series: Crux: the Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.
Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance, all i ...Show more
Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West by Robert Leonard Reid
$40.95 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesn't think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collectio ...Show more
Flâneuse - Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
The fl�neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl�neuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the fl�neuse is a "determined, resourcefu ...Show more
Homing Instincts - Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm by Sarah Menkedick
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
At thirty-one, Sarah Menkedick undergoes the biggest and most transformative adventure that she never anticipated: she moves into the tiny cabin on her family's form and begins the journey into motherhood. In vivid and bold prose, Menkedick explores the luminous, disorienting time just before and after ...Show more
Most American - Notes from a Wounded Place by Rilla Askew; Susan Kates (Foreword by)
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself--and indeed all Americans--in the role ...Show more
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin; Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction by)
$41.57 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"On breakfast: "Eatin ...Show more
Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year - An NPR Best Book of the Year - A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year ...Show more
The Art of Death - Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay | Series: Art Of... Ser.
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have app ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions - Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions by Rebecca Solnit
$38.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano
$12.11 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY "If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."--ELLE As a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano wa ...Show more
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