Harper Paperbacks, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Few writers today have created more stir than Daphne Merkin, who is admired as much for her personal daring as for the wit and power of her prose. Whether writing about her own cosmetic surgery "fix," the subversive thrill of shoplifting, or the seductive.....

Random House (NY), March 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Stated First Edition.

Atria/Keywords Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller ● Publishers Weekly Bestseller ● Los Angeles Times Bestseller ● Wall Street Journal Bestseller A brilliant, hilarious, and honest essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author and YouTube sensation Shane Dawson about how messy life can get when.....

Mariner Books, April 2018. Trade Paperback. Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores how we form identities in life and in art. As.....

Mariner Books, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Underlining and marginalia in pencil on several essays. Underlining and marginalia in pencil on several essays. Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild and the writer of the celebrated column "Dear Sugar," this collection is a treasure.....

Picador USA, April 2025. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography--its problems, politics, and possibilities. "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed," Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on.....

Graywolf Press, April 2025. Trade Paperback. A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends.....

Penguin Classics, August 1983. Trade Paperback. Thoreau's classic essays on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom have had relevance for every generation for more than a century. They remain high on required reading lists for students across the country.

Catapult, October 2016. Trade Paperback. This National Book Critics Circle Award is "an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). "Stories, both my.....

Pantheon Books, November 2020. Hardcover. Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages. --Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. The essay form is an especially.....

New American Press, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Kennedy's expatriate life in Denmark assures him of fresh, lucid vision on his return trips to the states, especially during his New York sojourns. He can be wry, confused, indignant, comic...but what declares itself most is his openness to the odd, the out-of-the-way.....

del Sol Press, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Walter Cummins learned very early on that the writer he knew as a person, no matter how well, is not the writer whose words he read. Even when the material is autobiographical, even based on incidents he's heard about in great detail, the.....