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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

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By: Henry Thoreau

ISBN: 9780141023977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Where the Stress Falls

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By: Susan Sontag

ISBN: 9780141190211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. It explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.

Who Killed My Father

(Paperback)

By: douard Louis

ISBN: 9781784709907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy the story of the little boy I never was.

Who's Writing This: Fifty-five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process

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By: Dan Halpern

ISBN: 9780061782220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A collection of privileged information about the identities of authors. It briefs about the fictional persona behind the scenes.

Why Didnt You Just Do What You Were Told: Essays

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By: Jenny Diski

ISBN: 9781526621948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Wildeana (riverrun editions)

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By: Matthew Sturgis

ISBN: 9781529406740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This riverrun edition includes the hitherto uncollected works by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.

Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose

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By: Ted Hughes

ISBN: 9780571174263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th March 1995
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A collection of prose pieces by the Poet Laureate, on literary matters and on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen and Sylvia Plath. Hughes also expresses concerns about education, the environment, and the arts in general.

Winter: Five Windows on the Season

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By: Adam Gopnik

ISBN: 9781780874470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter.

With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023

(Paperback)

By: Rick Bass

ISBN: 9781640096936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2025
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature

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By: Charles Baxter

ISBN: 9781644450918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
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Wordy

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By: Simon Schama

ISBN: 9781471180095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

Work, Word and the World: Essays on Habitat, Culture and Environment

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By: Susan Visvanathan

ISBN: 9789354356841
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
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Writing It Down for James: Writers on Life and Craft

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By: Kurt Brown

ISBN: 9780807063491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Youre Embarrassing Yourself

(Hardback)

By: Desiree Akhavan

ISBN: 9780008204341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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'I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again' LENA DUNHAM

Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up abouthilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love.

A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption

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By: Matt Donovan

ISBN: 9781595347602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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Essays on memory, history, and place that give voice to the sorrow and joy of being human

Aftershocks: Selected Writings and Interviews

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By: Anthony Macris

ISBN: 9781760800451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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Against Amazon: and Other Essays

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By: Jorge Carrin

ISBN: 9781771963039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Biblioasis
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A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterand, most urgently, a manifesto.

Agweddau ar Hanes Dysg Gymraeg

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By: G. J. Williams

ISBN: 9780708308950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1985
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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All the Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswomen's Notebook

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By: Gretchen Legler

ISBN: 9781595349415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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An eloquent chronicle about the complexities of being an outdoors woman

Alms for Oblivion

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By: Edward Dahlberg

ISBN: 9780816657384
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1967
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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American Romances: Essays

(Paperback)

By: Rebecca Brown

ISBN: 9780872864986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: City Lights Books
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New England Puritanism meets West Coast hedonism in an inventive remix of America's cultural history.

Among Elms, in Ambush

(Paperback)

By: Bruce Weigl

ISBN: 9781950774418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
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"Celebrated Army combat veteran's reflections born from the trauma of PTSD and the contemplative practices undertaken to survive it"--

An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections

(Hardback)

By: Brian Aldiss

ISBN: 9781851243730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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These personal and revealing essays by the master of science fiction reveal the influences behind his writing and offer new insights into the man and his world.

Another North

(Paperback)

By: Jennifer Brice

ISBN: 9781597099363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Red Hen Press
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Another North is a paean to the material world--food, clothing, cars, and houses, of course, but also to wastrel beauty that serves no purpose but to catch at the human heart.

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