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African Americans Literary collections American fiction 21st century Boys Literary collections FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors) FICTION / Literary LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays LITERARY COLLECTIONS American General Short stories, American Work PhilosophyHardwick, 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HARRoss, Lillian
Summary: "From the inimitable veteran New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross--a stunning collection of Ross's iconic New Yorker pieces"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 ROSBellow, Saul.
Summary: "A sweeping collection and a tribute to one of the most influential, daring, and visionary minds of the twentieth century The year 2015 marks several literary milestones: the centennial of Saul Bellow's birth, the tenth anniversary of his death, and the publication of Zachary Leader's much anticipated biography. Bellow, a Nobel Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the only novelist to receive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BELGinsberg, Allen
Summary: "A collection of essential poems, essays, letters, songs, and photographs which aims to introduce new readers to the scope of Allen Ginsberg's work in its prolific and profound diversity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GINRafferty, Charles
Summary: "In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer. Charles Rafferty is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOA Editions Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RAFSummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWKaag, John
Summary: "In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 KAASummary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEKeegan, Marina
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.609 KEESummary: "A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of itskind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 PORSummary: From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021