BooksList.Best
Search

The Lost Origins of the Essay

10 best books like The Lost Origins of the Essay (John D'Agata): Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, The Balloonists, Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (Da Capo Press Paperback), The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students, The Best American Essays 2003, The Best American Essays 2008

Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN1595340246
Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America’s land and water forms — phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works...
The Balloonists
AuthorEula Biss
ISBN1931236070
Poetry. "Eula Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe, by turns funny, scary, dreamlike, haunting. These prose poems are shards of gleaming observation, fragments of intimacy and illusion. Here we find our families and ourselves, our words and our silences"-Martin Espada....
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling
AuthorLinda Greenhouse
ISBN1607146711
The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in "Roe v. Wade" legalized abortion-but the debate was far from over, continuing to be a political battleground to this day. In the decades since the case was decided, the American debate on abortion has moved away from the issues that the justices confronted more than...
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
AuthorEllen Bryant Voigt
ISBN1555975313
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (Da Capo Press Paperback)
AuthorAlbert Murray
"The Omni-Americans" is a classic collection of wickedly incisive essays, commentaries, and reviews on politics, literature, and music. Provocative and compelling, Albert Murray debunks the "so-called findings and all-too-inclusive extrapolations of social science survey technicians,"...
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
AuthorRobert L. Root Jr.
ISBN0321434846
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
AuthorJudith Kitchen
ISBN0393326004
In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans...
The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students
AuthorHeather Sellers
ISBN0312436475
The Practice of Creative Writing is designed for all students in the introductory course, including those who may never take another writing class. Its message is, simply put: you can do this, and it's worthwhile to try. Heather Sellers, who writes in multiple genres herself, has developed an approach...
The Best American Essays 2003
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0618341617
Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth...
The Best American Essays 2008
AuthorAdam Gopnik
ISBN0618983228
Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year’s edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have “text and inner text, personal...
Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
AuthorBrenda Miller
ISBN0072512784
This is a great book, and if you look for it, try for the earlier edition with the anthology in the back. The most recent edition took the essays out and that makes no sense. Why read about how to write creative nonfiction and not immediately have an example?

At this point I have read most of the book...
The Best American Essays 2011
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
ISBN0547479778
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special...
The Best American Essays 2004
AuthorLouis Menand
ISBN0618357092
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
AuthorMary Paumier Jones
ISBN0393314928
Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short—very short. Although the form has not had a name until now,...
The Best American Essays 2009
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0618982728
Addendum to original review, explaining why I have downgraded this to two stars - (italicized material below):

My second criticism is probably more a reflection of my personal taste, and may not be shared by other readers. But I felt that Mary Oliver's background as a poet shone through, with...
The Best American Essays 2007
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
ISBN0618709274
The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion,...
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
AuthorPhillip Lopate
ISBN0671042351
Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism. He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared...
What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393312461
An incredibly inspiring and challenging collection of essays on poetry, particularly its politically transformative dimension. While Rich does speak about and from the USA, this is not so much a limitation but an implied challenge to the reader to think through their own context. From the final essay:

"A...
My Emily Dickinson
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0938190520
My Emily Dickinson does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry.

This is more personal than a biography in that it is...
The Body: An Essay
AuthorJenny Boully
ISBN0979118921
Cultural Writing. Poetry. Essays. Comprised of footnotes to a non-existent text, THE BODY: AN ESSAY is a meditation on absence, loss and disappearance that offers a guarded "narrative" of what may or may not be a love letter, a dream, a spiritual autobiography, a memoir, a scholarly digression, a treatise...
The Best American Essays 2014
AuthorJohn Jeremiah Sullivan
ISBN0544309901
“A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating.” — Publishers Weekly

The Best American Essays 2014 is selected and introduced by...
Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations
AuthorAlane Mason
ISBN1595580700
Short stories and fiction excerpts from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and other countries from whom the government would rather we didn't hear.

""Not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and writing is both dangerous and boring.""--Alane Mason, founding editor,...
Junk Mail
AuthorWill Self
ISBN0802170234
Will Self is one of the most important British novelists of his generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring journalism as he is for his fiction. Now finally available in America, Junk Mail is an original selection of pieces from Self's nonfiction and journalism that will introduce...
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
AuthorLisa Robertson
ISBN0009723234
from clearcutpress.com:

Poet and essayist Lisa Robertson has maintained the Office for Soft Architecture since 1996 as an apparatus for lyrical research focused primarily on Vancouver, B.C., with some excursions to other places. The Office constructs propositions and documents for...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024