The cool school : writing from America's hip underground

The abundance : narrative essays old and new —Dillard, Annie, author.

A landmark collection of author-curated pieces celebrates the master essayist's career and offers insight into her establishment of the "novelized nonfiction" form.

Winter hours : prose, prose poems, and poems —Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019.

With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the powerful flight of swans, and of the "thousand unbreakable links between us and ev...

Sister mother husband dog (etc.) —Ephron, Delia.

"A collection of nonfiction essays featuring a story about the author's sister, Nora Ephron"--Provided by publisher.

After the tall timber : collected nonfiction —Adler, Renata.

The most of Nora Ephron —Ephron, Nora.

A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest-- and most acute-- writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years.-

The best American essays of the century

Zhe jiu shi Niu Yue = Here is New York Vernacular Title: 这就是纽约 = Here is New York —White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.

Higher gossip : essays and criticism —Updike, John.

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 h...

Nobody's looking at you : essays —Malcolm, Janet, author.

"A collection of previously published essays and profiles by the legendary critic Janet Malcolm. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother of...

Inside essays I

A Guy Davenport reader —Davenport, Guy.

The last empire : essays 1992-2000 —Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012

A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers. —Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012, author.

"For Bradbury enthusiasts, religionists and nearly everyone else, here's a delightful scrapbook of poems and essays, familiar summations but no less vital from a brilliant young fantasist grown older but not old." -- Pub...

Even the stars look lonesome —Angelou, Maya.

Uncanny valley : and other adventures in the narrative —Weschler, Lawrence.

Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his unique insight into everything he examines, from the ordinary to the ex...

Voices, places : essays —Mason, David, 1954- author.

The essays of Leonard Michaels. —Michaels, Leonard, 1933-2003.

Portraits and observations —Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.

Short takes : brief encounters with contemporary nonfiction