Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series – serie
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Lost Wax
Essays
E-bok, 2016
438 kr
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For her collection Lost Wax , Jericho Parms borrows her title from a casting method used by sculptors. As such, these eighteen essays, centered on art and memory, offer an investigation into form and content and the language of innocence, experience, and loss. Four sections (each borrowing names …
Fire and Stone
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
E-bok, 2016
509 kr
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The questions that drive Priscilla Long’s Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins. Using her …
Alpine Apprentice
Av Sarah Gorham
E-bok, 2017
428 kr
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Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance, …
Let Us Build Us a City
E-bok, 2017
470 kr
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With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual’s relationship to the world. The book reads like a master class on writing as practice, while performing a deep reading …
Hoop
A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2017
492 kr
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Brian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like …
Exploded View
Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams
E-bok, 2018
438 kr
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In Exploded View “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print. As with a graphic novel, the story is not only in the text but also in how that text interacts with the images that accompany it. Diagrams were an important …
Brooding
Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet
E-bok, 2018
474 kr
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This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone’s friendship with the writers David Foster …
Pandora's Garden
Kudzu, Cockroaches, and Other Misfits of Ecology
E-bok, 2018
428 kr
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Pandora’s Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the chapters in Pandora’s Garden are like the …
Learning from Thoreau
E-bok, 2018
509 kr
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Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America’s most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book consists not in learning “about” Thoreau from an intermediary but, as the title suggests, in learning “from” Thoreau along with the author—whose lifelong engagement …
High Low Tide
The Revival of a Southern Oyster
E-bok, 2018
565 kr
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Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that’s just the beginning. André Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the …
This Is One Way to Dance
Essays
Av Sejal Shah
E-bok, 2020
405 kr
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In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance , Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps …
Mountain Madness
Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan
E-bok, 2021
474 kr
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With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine …
