Baldwin, James
Contents: Notes of a native son -- Nobody knows my name -- The fire next time -- No name in the street -- The devil finds work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Greene, Graham
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1969
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 GREMurray, Albert
Summary: In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray(1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the pathology of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MURBALDWIN, JAMES
Summary: Notes of a Native Son--Nobody Knows My Name--Fier Next Time--The Devil Finds Work-- Other Essays
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LIBRARY OF AMERICA 1998
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer NF BaldwinWoolf, Virginia
Summary: Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1967
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.91 WOOThoreau, Henry David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THOD'Ambrosio, Charles.
Summary: "Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its print run, its devotees have pressed it upon their friends, students, and colleagues, only to find themselves begging for their copy's safe return. For anyone familiar with D'Ambrosio's writing, this enthusiasm should come as no surprise. His...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DAMWoolf, Virginia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1969
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.91 WOOEhrenreich, Barbara
Summary: A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EHRMailer, Norman
Summary: "This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MAIOrwell, George
Contents: v. 1. An age like this, 1920-1940 -- v. 2. My country right or left, 1940-1943 -- v. 3. As I please, 1943-1946 -- v. 4. In front of your nose, 1946-1950.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: D.R. Godine 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 ORWHardwick, Elizabeth
Summary: Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her. She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays about literature, her greatest passion. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HARMacdonald, Helen
Summary: "In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 508 MACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 MACWang, Esmé Weijun
Summary: "Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gardner, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 GARClarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 CLAEiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe."--publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISEiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1970
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241 LEWTwain, Mark
Contents: [1] 1852-1890 --[2] 1891-1910.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.4 TWATwain, Mark
Summary: Collection of Mark Twain's works over the last nineteen years of his life including a chronology of his life and career.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.4 TWACall number: 818.4 TWA
Yogananda
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Realization Fellowship 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.93 YOGPortis, Charles
Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORKaufman, Bob
Summary: "Collected for the first time, the complete surviving works of a major African-American Beat Surrealist poet."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2019