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From the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture …
"Its every page offers pleasure, the profound, joyful pleasure of watching a masterful writer at work." --Chicago Tribune "In Don't Save Anything . . . Kay Eldredge Salter …
Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all of the wittiest people …
"These essays on a woman's wild ride through life give us Marion's bracing tonic-of-truth voice in splendid form--her voice that is always brilliantly funny, intelligent, brave, …
In this collection of twenty-three essays, Robert Aitken retraces the origins of American Zen Buddhism and provides readings of influential texts. Reflecting on death, on …
When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Berry decided to take on the …
"An engrossing, highly readable memoir in essays about growing up in New York in the 1970s . . . T]his is a tender portrait of family dysfunction." --Booklist The Siegels of New …
"The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry's corpus." --The Paris Review Wendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this …
This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you …
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the …