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Five Ways of Being a Painting

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by William Max Nelson, Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick McGuiness, Dasha Shkurpela ...

This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style and above all their ability to persuade. Includes essays by William Max Nelson, Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick ... Read more

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This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style and above all their ability to persuade. Includes essays by William Max Nelson, Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick
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Lost in Translation

A Life in a New Language

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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age
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Crafting The Personal Essay

A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

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Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for ... Read more

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Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for
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From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe ...

After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius ... Read more

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After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius
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Prague

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BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to ... Read more

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BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to
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The Best American Essays 2020

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A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts,
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Unearthing

A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTIONFor readers of Crying in H Mart and Wintering, an unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love.**Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTIONFor readers of Crying in H Mart and Wintering, an unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love.**Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised
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The Art of the Wasted Day

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**“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream**The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who ... Read more

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**“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream**The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who
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Lucky Breaks

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Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky ...

Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in UkraineOut of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since ... Read more

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Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in UkraineOut of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since
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Paper

An Elegy

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From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and ... Read more

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From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

by John Berger ...

'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ... In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'.When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and ... Read more

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'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ... In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'.When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and
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Karaoke Culture

by Dubravka Ugresic ...

Translated by David Williams, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth ...

Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar. ... Read more

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Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.
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