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- (Don't) stop me if you've heard this before : and other essays on writing fiction
- 100 essays I don't have time to write : on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater
- 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
- 101 essays that will change the way you think
- 12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next
- 1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 1968 : today's authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 2017 Pushcart prize XLI : best of the small presses
- 2020 Pushcart prize XLIV : best of the small presses
- 2021 Pushcart prize XLV : best of the small presses
- 2022 Pushcart prize XLVI : best of the small presses 2022
- 2023 Pushcart Prize XLVII : best of the small presses
- 30 Before 30
- 30 before 30 : how I made a mess of my 20s, and you can too
- 50 Yale admission success stories : and the essays that made them happen
- A Cynic Looks at Life
- A Grace Paley reader : stories, essays, and poetry
- A Handful of Stars
- A Map Is Only One Story
- A Piece of My Mind
- A Pluralistic Universe
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- A Very Punchable Face
- A Walk in the Woods
- A bone to pick : the good and bad news about food, along with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs policy, farming, and more
- A bone to pick : the good and bad news about food, along with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A cry from the far middle : dispatches from a divided land
- A darker wilderness : Black nature writing from soil to stars
- A family of strangers
- A ghost in the throat
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A history of my brief body
- A horse at night : on writing
- A la caza del le?n
- A left-handed woman : essays
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A man's world : portraits
- A manner of being : writers on their mentors
- A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home
- A map of absence : an anthology of Palestinian writing on the Nakba
- A measure of belonging : twenty-one writers of color on the new American South
- A naturalist at large : the best essays of Bernd Heinrich
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A really big lunch
- A region not home : reflections from exile
- A sense of wonder : the world's best writers on the sacred, the profane, and the ordinary
- A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind
- AI 2041 : ten visions for our future
- ATTENTION
- Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons
- Abominations : selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- After the tall timber : collected nonfiction
- Against everything : essays, 2004-2015
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alibis : essays on elsewhere
- Aliens : the world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life
- All Things Considered
- All that is evident is suspect : readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018
- All the songs we sing : celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective
- All the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- All the women in my family sing : women write the world--essays on equality, justice, and freedom
- All who belong may enter
- Allegorizings
- Alone together : love, grief, and comfort in the time of COVID-19
- Always Home
- Always looking : essays on art
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- American Savage : insights, slights, and fights on faith, sex, love, and politics
- American birds : a literary companion
- American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- American originality : essays on poetry
- American wildflowers : a literary field guide
- Americans and Others
- An Edinburgh Eleven
- An Englishman Looks at the World
- An affirming flame : meditations on life and politics
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic
- And yet... : essays
- And yet... : essays
- Andy Rooney
- Animal joy : a book of laughter and resuscitation
- Animals strike curious poses : essays
- Anti-intellectualism in American life ; : The paranoid style in American politics ; Uncollected essays, 1956-1965
- Apple, tree : writers on their parents
- Apple, tree : writers on their parents
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Aren't you forgetting someone? : essays from my mid-life revenge
- Arguably : essays
- Arguing with zombies : economics, politics, and the fight for a better future
- As seen on TV : provocations
- At home : essays, 1982-1988
- At large and at small : familiar essays
- At the same time : essays and speeches
- Autumn
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad vibes only (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Balancing acts : essays
- Barrel fever and other stories
- Based on a True Story
- Battles for freedom : the use and abuse of American history
- Beaten, Seared, and Sauced
- Because we say so
- Becoming dangerous : witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels
- Believers : making a life at the end of the world
- Best Friends, Occasional Enemies--The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter
- Best. State. Ever.
- Better
- Between eternities
- Between the lines
- Betwixt-and-between : essays on the writing life
- Beyond the Messy Truth
- Bigger than bravery : Black resilience and reclamation in a time of pandemic
- Birds and Man
- Bit rot : stories + essays
- Bitters
- Black and female : essays
- Black cool : one thousand streams of blackness
- Black folk could fly : selected writings
- Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing
- Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- Black love matters : real talk on romance, being seen, and happily ever afters
- Black nerd problems
- Black nerd problems : essays
- Black on Black : on our resilience and brilliance in America
- Black paper : writing in a dark time
- Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings
- Blackboard : a personal history of the classroom
- Bland fanatics : liberals, race, and empire
- Blue Plate Special
- Body language : writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Book bonding : building connections through family reading
- Bookends : collected intros and outros
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Borealis
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Boyz n the void : a mixtape to my brother
- Brave Dames and Wimpettes
- Brave companions : portraits in history
- Break.up
- Breakfast on Mars : and 37 other delectable essays
- Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction
- Bright unbearable reality : essays
- Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant : essays
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Brown album : essays on exile and identity
- Brown neon
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Burn it down : women writing about anger
- Burn this book : PEN writers speak out on the power of the word
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces, 2004 to 2021
- Busted in New York and other essays
- But enough about you : essays
- But you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits
- Calamities
- Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays)
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Campo Santo
- Can it happen here? : authoritarianism in America
- Can you tolerate this? : essays
- Carsick
- Carson McCullers : stories, plays & other writings
- Center center : a funny, sexy, sad almost-memoir of a boy in ballet
- Charm : the elusive enchantment
- Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
- Chronicles of a liquid society
- Chuck Klosterman X : a highly specific, defiantly incomplete history of the early 21st century
- Citizen : an American lyric
- Citizen : an American lyric
- Civilisation
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Cleopatra's nose : 39 varieties of desire
- Collected essays
- Collected essays and poems
- Collected papers : on historical subjects presented to the Chicago Literary Club and the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago from 1991 to 2009
- Collected stories and other writings
- Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays
- Collected works
- Collection of sand : essays
- Coming of age at the end of nature : a generation faces living on a changed planet
- Complete Madame Realism and other stories
- Complications
- Con total libertad
- Concentrate : poems
- Confesiones de una mala feminista
- Consider the Lobster
- Consider the lobster and other essays
- Conspiracy theories & other dangerous ideas
- Cool, Calm & Contentious
- Cosmic deputy : poetry and context 1968-2019
- Coventry : essays
- Coventry : essays
- Crackpot : the obsessions of John Waters
- Cranial fracking
- Crazy salad & Scribble scribble : some things about women & notes on the media
- Creative Unity
- Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
- Crossing open ground
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- Cuba on the verge : 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country = Cuba en la encrucijada : doce perspectivas sobre la continuidad y el cambio en La Habana y en todo el paÃs
- DIRT
- Daddy wouldn't buy me a Bauhaus : profiles in architecture & design
- Daddy, Stop Talking!
- Dance of the Reptiles
- Dance of the Reptiles
- Dangerous women : fifty reflections on women, power and identity
- Dark matter : a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora
- Dave Barry's greatest hits
- David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall/Live for Your Listening Pleasure
- De Gournay : hand-painted interiors
- De facto feminism : essays straight outta Oakland
- Dead girls : essays on surviving American obsession
- Dear Damage
- Dear Girls
- Dear Girls
- Dear zealots : letters from a divided land
- Death by landscape : essays
- Decreation : poetry, essays, opera
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep creek : finding hope in the high country
- Demigods and Monsters
- Devotion
- Dictionary of the undoing
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults/
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the twenty-first century
- Discontent and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
- Dispatches from the Gilded Age : a few more thoughts on interesting people, far-flung places, and the joys of Southern comforts
- Dispatches from the race war
- Distrust that particular flavor
- Do You Mind If I Cancel?
- Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?
- Don't call me princess : essays on girls, women, sex, and life
- Don't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body
- Don't live for your obituary : advice, commentary and personal observations on writing, 2008-2017
- Dostoyevsky reads Hegel in Siberia and bursts into tears
- Dragon at the edge of a flat world : portraits and revelations
- Dreaming of Hitler : passions & provocations
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Dyscalculia : a love story of epic miscalculation
- E. E. Cummings : a miscellany
- Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
- Eat pray love made me do it : life journeys inspired by the bestselling memoir
- Eat, live, love, die : selected essays
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Eiseley : collected essays on evolution, nature, and the cosmos, Volume one
- Eiseley : collected essays on evolution, nature, and the cosmos, Volume two
- El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984)
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Emile
- Empty the pews : stories of leaving the church
- Entertaining race : performing blackness in America
- Erosion : essays of undoing
- Escape and Other Essays
- Escape into meaning : essays on Superman, public benches, and other obsessions
- Essay and general literature index
- Essay winners hailed
- Essayism : on form, feeling, and nonfiction
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays & Term Papers
- Essays after eighty
- Essays and Lectures
- Essays in Radical Empiricism
- Essays in the Art of Writing
- Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Essays of Schopenhauer
- Essays of the masters
- Essays one
- Essays two : on Proust, translation, foreign languages, and the city of Arles
- Essays, First Series
- Essays, Second Series
- Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry
- Estados Unidos en la prosa de un inmigrante
- Eugenics and other evils,
- Even the terrible things seem beautiful to me now : the best of Mary Schmich
- Everything I Know About Love
- Everything Is Under Control
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything in its place : first loves and last tales
- Ex Libris
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- Faces in the Fire
- Facts and Fictions of Life
- Failure Is an Option
- Falling in Love
- Far away from close to home : a Black millennial woman in progress : essays
- Farewell transmission : (notes from hidden spaces)
- Farther away
- Fat and queer : an anthology of queer and trans bodies and lives
- Feel free : essays
- Feminasty
- Feminasty
- Feminasty : the complicated woman's guide to surviving the patriarchy without drinking herself to death
- Festival days
- Fever swamp : a journey through the strange Neverland of the 2016 presidential race
- Field recordings from the inside : essays
- Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Fight of the century : writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Final draft : the collected work of David Carr
- First and Last Things
- First jobs : true tales of bad bosses, quirky coworkers, big breaks, and small paychecks
- Flash forward : an illustrated guide to possible (and not so possible) tomorrows
- Following the Equator
- Food
- Food
- Footsteps : from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world
- Fortunate son : selected essays from the Lone Star state
- Fraud : essays
- Freedom fighters and hell raisers : a gallery of memorable southerners
- Freeman's arrival
- Freeman's, Home
- From a College Window
- From our land to our land : essays, journeys, and imaginings and musings from a native Xicanx writer
- From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr. : on science, literature, and religion
- Full dissidence : notes from an uneven playing field
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Funny weather : art in an emergency
- Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962 : painting to the point
- Gallimaufry : a collection of essays, reviews, bits
- GarcÃa Márquez : historia de un deicidio
- Gauguin : portraits
- George Steiner at The New Yorker
- Getting at the Inner Man
- Ginger-Snaps
- Girlhood : essays
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Giving good weight
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Go See the Principal
- Go See the Principal
- God in the dock : essays on theology and ethics
- God, human, animal, machine : technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning
- Gone to New York : adventures in the city
- Good things happen to people you hate : essays
- Goodbye, again : essays, reflections, and illustrations
- Goodness and the literary imagination : Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision
- Graceland, at last : notes on hope and heartache from the American South
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Greedy : notes from a bisexual who wants too much
- Gross Anatomy
- Gross anatomy : dispatches from the front (and back)
- Growing up trans : in our own words
- Had I Known
- Had I known : collected essays
- Had I known : collected essays
- Halls of fame : essays
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Having and Being Had
- Having and Being Had
- Having and being had
- Henry James
- Here for It
- Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America : essays
- High notes : selected writings of Gay Talese
- Higher gossip : essays and criticism
- Hogs wild : selected reporting pieces
- Holidays on Ice
- Homo irrealis : essays
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
- Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration
- Hope wins : a collection of inspiring stories for young readers
- Housebroken
- How Did You Get This Number
- How Not to Get Shot
- How To
- How To
- How a poem moves : a field guide for readers of poetry
- How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures
- How far you have come : musings on beauty and courage
- How not to be a doctor : and other essays
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How should one read a book?
- How to Be the Perfect Gentleman
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- How to be alone : essays
- How to be an artist
- How to cuss in western : and other missives from the high desert
- How to make a slave and other essays
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- How to write an autobiographical novel
- How we go home : voices from indigenous North America
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- Human relations and other difficulties : [essays]
- Human(kind) : how reclaiming human worth and embracing radical kindness will bring us back together
- Hummingbirds in the trenches
- Hungry heart
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- I Can't Date Jesus
- I Feel Bad About My Neck
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
- I Might Regret This
- I Might Regret This
- I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
- I Remember Nothing
- I Remember Nothing
- I Wanna Be Where the Normal People Are
- I Was Told There'd Be Cake
- I can't complain : [(all too) personal essays]
- I don't want to die poor : essays
- I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution
- I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses
- I spoke to you with silence : essays from queer Mormons of marginalized genders
- I tell you now : autobiographical essays by native American writers
- I used to be charming : the rest of Eve Babitz
- I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki
- I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole : an Elias Canetti reader
- I was told there'd be cake : essays
- I was told there'd be cake : essays
- I will never see the world again : the memoir of an imprisoned writer
- I wouldn't do that if I were me : modern blunders and modest triumphs (but mostly blunders)
- I wrote this book because I love you : essays
- I'll Mature When I'm Dead
- I'll show myself out : [essays on midlife and motherhood]
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I'll tell you in person
- I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- I'm Fine...And Other Lies
- I'm Fine...And Other Lies
- I'm Judging You
- I'm Just a Person
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- I'm no philosopher, but I got thoughts : mini-meditations for saints, sinners, and the rest of us
- I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
- I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places
- I've been wrong before : essays
- IN LIGHT-YEARS THERE'S NO HURRY : COSMIC PERSPECTIVES ON EVERYDAY LIFE
- Ideas and Opinions
- Idiot
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother
- If this were fiction : a love story in essays
- Imaginary homelands : essays and criticism, 1981-1991
- Impossible owls : essays
- In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
- In brief : short takes on the personal
- In praise of good bookstores
- In praise of messy lives : essays
- In search of a beautiful freedom : new and selected essays
- In the Heights : finding home
- In the dark room