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A Memoir in Essays
Hardcover: Feb 2025
A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual.
A Life in Essays
Hardcover: Apr 2024
From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American ...
Thoughts on Love
Hardcover: Apr 2024
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love
On Borders and Belonging
Hardcover: Feb 2024
A mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay.
Notes on the Science of Life
Hardcover: Jan 2024
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life.
A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Hardcover: Dec 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2024
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments.
A History of Books and Their Readers
Hardcover: Nov 2022
A history of one of humankind's most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book.
Essays
Hardcover: Jul 2022
An exploration and polemic that redefines the power and potential for reading by a novelist whose "prose is as good as it gets" (NPR) and who has "a real voice: vernacular and fluid, with a take-no-prisoners edge" (Kirkus).
Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir
Hardcover: May 2021 | Paperback: May 2022
A powerful exploration of grief following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal.
Essays
Hardcover: May 2022
From the discovery of the author's face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from "one of the most intelligent, ...
Hardcover: Dec 2020 | Paperback: Nov 2021
Each disparate object described in this book - a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific - shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail.
Finding Hope in the High Country
Hardcover: Jan 2019 | Paperback: Jan 2020
"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."
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