Franzen, Jonathan
Summary: In this collection of essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen explores his complex relationship with his uncle, recounts his young adulthood in New York, and offers an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1994
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Summary: Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, "attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 KRAMorrison, Toni
Summary: Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: Han Han is the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with which he takes on everyone from corrupt politicians to ludicrous protesters. In this collection of essays, he tackles everything from Internet culture in a country that censors the Internet to his own escapades driving around with fake police IDs and a megaphone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 890 HANRushdie, Salman
Summary: "Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 RUSMorgenstein, Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Between The Bays 2011
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Hitchens, Christopher
Summary: "This collection of essays brings together some of the finest pieces Hitchens published over the last two decades for the first time in one book, addressing with characteristic wit and erudition the subjects he is best known for, including: the case against God, faith and religious observance; the case for intervention in Iraq; indictments of towering political figures like Bill and Hillary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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Summary: A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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Summary: A former poet laureate presents a new collection of essays delivering an unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HALHoagland, Edward.
Contents: Author's note.-- The problem of the golden rule.-- The courage of turtles.-- The war in the woods.-- The elephant trainer and the man on stilts.-- Knights and squires: for love of the tugs.-- On not being a Jew.-- The draft card gesture.-- Books, movies, the news.-- The threshold and the jolt of pain.-- The lapping, itchy edge of love.-- Violence, violence.-- Blitzes and holding actions.-- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 HOACole, Teju
Summary: "With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DAMGay, Roxane.
Summary: A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GAYSummary: "From the students at the Yale Daily News, a book that highlights the essays that got students into Yale University, helping high school seniors get into the school of their choice The competition to get into a top-tier school becomes more and more fierceevery year. Parents and students are searching for the best advice, and the final question they ask after joining clubs in high school and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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Summary: An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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Summary: Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own diagnosis with cancer. Her columns in the London Review of Books -- selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, ranged from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats -- have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020