Summary: "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CONSummary: Aura is a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TINSummary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by author and critic Vivian Gornick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Pioneers: the silent era and the transition to sound -- Masters and moonlighters: the late 1930s, World War II, and the postwar era -- The golden age of movie criticism: the 1950s through the 70s -- Reconsiderations and renegade perspectives: the 1980s to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4375 AMESummary: Presents a collection of mid-twentieth century essays on a wide range of subjects, written by some of America's best writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021