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Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and in the places he visited across the country. But he...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
x, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares personal essays on diverse topics ranging from literary pets and cursive writing to book inscriptions and the pleasures of science fiction conventions.
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 185 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity. Now, off the stage and on the pages of Hungry Hearts, sixteen...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxiii, 501 p. : ill., facsim. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.
Author
Publisher
Element
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alan Watts became famous as a guru of the San Francisco counter-culture of the 1960s. Through his highly influential books, lectures and broadcasts, he was a pioneer in the introduction of Eastern Wisdom to Westerners. He played a crucial part in the movement towards New Age holistic consciousness, and showed thousands of people new ways of seeing themselves and the world around them. This collection of Alan Watts' writings between 1934 and 1956...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world."--
Author
Publisher
Project Poppycock
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Physical Desc
227 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author that brought you Doggy Paddling in the Deep End, comes yet another romp through the darkest recesses of a man with a sense of humor and a lot of free time. Whether it's suggesting America needs an intervention, video games can provide a real-world moral compass, or weighing the pros and cons of being a terrorist, there's nothing inflammatory that isn't in here. Do a Bible passage mad lib between reading about the New American Dream...
Author
Publisher
Heyday Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xv, 143 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Along the Perfume River lives an old woman who has never left her village, who has raised children and grandchildren, never having seen the other side of the river. A nightclub owner from Vietnam travels the world, hobnobbing with international celebrities. A young man goes to college in America, only to return to Vietnam with made-up stories and forged photographs of himself with President Clinton. And another grows up both an American teenager...
Publisher
New Press :Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xiii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of fiction, essays, and poetry by 36 women coming from a wide range of backgrounds and ages, impairments and experiences, dealing with the themes of pain and illness and of overcoming prejudice and unjust legislation.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Radical Hope is a collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
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