Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant by Ken Smith
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really thinking, and started submitting his essays to left-of-centre websites. Joe's essays soon gained a wide following fo ...Show more
Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. ...Show more
The City of Words : Understanding Civilisation through Story (2007 CBC Massey Lectures) by Alberto Manguel
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
'And yet stories, even the best and truest, can't save us from our own folly. Stories can't protect us from suffering and error, from natural and artificial catastrophes, from our own suicidal greed. The only thing they can do is ...offer consolation for suffering and words to name our experience. Stori ...Show more
Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by R.A. Gekoski
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: good
Rick Gekoski has been described as the Bill Bryson of the book world. Rare book dealer, academic, publisher, critic, bibliographer, and broadcaster, his BBC Radio series Rare Books, Rare People was acclaimed by The Daily Telegraph as 'one of the gems of Radio 4'. In Tolkien's Gown, a book based loosely ...Show more
When I Was a Child I Read Books - Essays by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read' However she is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection she returns to the themes which have preo ...Show more
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
The further thoughts of Clive James - illuminating, insightful, informed, inspired, intelligent. These are words that could - and do - apply equally to book or author; in fact, The Revolt of the Pendulum, Clive James latest essay collection, shows James at his most dazzling and versatile best yet. From ...Show more
Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own ...Show more
Speaking Volumes - Conversations with Remarkable Writers by Ramona Koval
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and downright funny. In this collection, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her book, Tasting Life Twice, along with brand new interviews with som ...Show more
As I Was Saying - A Collection of Musings by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
AS I WAS SAYING is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the con ...Show more
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In his essay on Tennessee Williams, Colm Toibin reveals an artist profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, Toibin examines a world of family relations, and in Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents illuminates an Ireland reinvented. F ...Show more
READINGS AND WRITINGS by ET AL
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Since opening in 1969, Readings has grown to become one of the most renowned and beloved bookshops in Melbourne and a landmark on the local literary scene. From the first small shop on Lygon Street to its current six locations around town, the shop has long been a focus for local literature, art and cul ...Show more
The Eventful Story of Miss Cotton's Visits... by Peter Robinson
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important ...Show more