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Public Issues, Private Tensions: Contemporary American Drama (Georgia State Literary Studies)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ams Pr Inc

Seller ID: 642177

ISBN-13: 9780404632090

Binding: Hardcover

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This book is a critical exploration of the public issues and private tensions dialectic that seems central to American drama and theatre since 1945. The 17 essays use as a critical point of departure the delicate moral balance between the civic function of the theatre and its relationship to the spirit of the individual. These essays, nine of which appear here for the first time, consider such playwrights as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, David Rabe, Lanford Wilson, Wallace Shawn, Megan Terry, Denise Hamilton, Maria Irene Fornes, Art...
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The Best American Essays 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

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Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2019

Seller ID: 621019

ISBN-13: 9781328465801

Binding: Trade

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A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. "Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection gr...
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The Best American Essays 2015

By: Atwan, Robert

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2015

Seller ID: 640493

ISBN-13: 9780544569621

Binding: Paper Back

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"Writing an essay is like catching a wave," posits guest editor Ariel Levy. "To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water." This year's writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger self, losing your sanity to Fitbit, and even saying goodbye to a beloved pair of pants imbued with meaning are all unified by the daring of their creation. As Levy notes, "Writing around an idea you think is worthwhile--an idea you suspect is an insight--requires...
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

By: Birkerts, Sven

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books : October 1995

Seller ID: 623444

ISBN-13: 9780449910092

Binding: Trade

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NUMBERS IN THE DARK: And Other Stories

By: Calvino, Italo

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pantheon : November 1995

Seller ID: 648212

ISBN-13: 9780679442059

Binding: Hardcover

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For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and impossible interviews from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, and a cheerful grasp of the absurdities of the human condition.
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How to Read Now: Essays

By: Castillo, Elaine

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Viking : July 2022

Seller ID: 644509

ISBN-13: 9780593489635

Binding: Hardcover

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Life With Father

By: Day, Clarence

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub : January 2005

Seller ID: 609417

ISBN-13: 9781579124328

Binding: Hardcover

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Civility in America: Essays from America's Thought Leaders

By: Group Inc., The Dilenschneider, Brademas, John, Edwards, Mickey, Osgood, Charles, Howard, Philip K., Kaufman, Henry, Forbes, Steve

Price: $3.00

Publisher: DGI Press : September 2011

Seller ID: 615368

ISBN-13: 9780983900702

Binding: Trade

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In every sector of American society, civility has declined-from vicious political rhetoric to attacks in the blogosphere and lack of personal decency. In 2011, The Dilenschneider Group, a strategic communications firm, sponsored a series of lectures on civility in conjunction with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Collected in this volume are the thoughts of some of the nation's most insightful minds as they explore this crisis and offer their opinions as to how we can restore civility in society. Featuring: - HENRY KAUFMAN on Civility in the Financial Sector - CHARLES ...
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Some Freaks

By: Mamet, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Viking Press : December 1989

Seller ID: 627007

ISBN-13: 9780670829330

Binding: Trade

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Venice (Chronicles Abroad): Tales of the City

By: Mann, Thomas,James, Henry,Wharton, Edith,Welles, Orson,Casanova,,Winterson, Jeannette,Sartre, Jean Paul

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books : March 1994

Seller ID: 626492

ISBN-13: 9780811804714

Binding: Hardcover

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Stories From The Vinyl Cafe

By: McLean, Stuart

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Canada : October 1996

Seller ID: 628564

ISBN-13: 9780140251029

Binding: Trade

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Loud and Clear

By: Quindlen, Anna

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House : April 2004

Seller ID: 632879

ISBN-13: 9781400061129

Binding: Hardcover

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In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of America's favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life. "Always insightful, rooted in everyday experience and common sense...Quindlen is so good that even when you disagree with what she says, you still love the way she says it," said "People" magazine about her number one "New York Times" bestseller Thinking Out Loud, and the same can be said about Loud and Clear. With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impa...
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Common Nonsense

By: Rooney, Andy

Price: $4.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs : October 2002

Seller ID: 596350

ISBN-13: 9781586481445

Binding: Hardcover

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Gym Rats: Sons Who Play for Fathers Who Coach

By: Saunders, Eric

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Publisher: Alamo Square Dist Inc : January 1990

Seller ID: 589666

ISBN-13: 9780965861007

Binding: Trade

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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : October 2021

Seller ID: 643769

ISBN-13: 9780316558792

Binding: Hardcover

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Happy-Go-Lucky

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : May 2022

Seller ID: 643779

ISBN-13: 9780316392457

Binding: Hardcover

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books : June 2001

Seller ID: 634722

ISBN-13: 9780316776967

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked," presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books : June 2001

Seller ID: 645558

ISBN-13: 9780316776967

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked," presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $4.00

Publisher: N/A : June 2008

Seller ID: 643776

ISBN-13: 9780316143479

Binding: Hardcover

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"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from yo...
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The Morning After and Long After: Selected Essays and Reviews

By: Sheed, Wilfred

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Akadine Pr : January 2002

Seller ID: 609427

ISBN-13: 9781585790388

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

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