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This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John …
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic-a personal and intellectual awakening A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most …
This second volume of "The John McPhee Reader" includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including "Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of …
An incisive collection of essays by the editor of the London Review of Books, whom Hilary Mantel has called "a presiding genius" Mary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the London Review of …
"Pieces of the Frame "is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of …
Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less …
A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he …
Short, sharp musings on things profound and mundane (and sometimes both) from the Pulitzer Prize winning poetC. K. Williams has never been afraid to push the boundaries of poetic …
An acclaimed collection of essays by "the dean of literary journalists" begins with a trip to Nevada, where the author discovers that cattle rustling is not just history, and …
A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and …