Sentences with phrase «essay collections»

On the publishing side, it seems like more people are thinking of essay collections as viable.

Her new essay collection, like the last one, should be taken on trains and planes, read on the beach, shared and enjoyed.

A good essay collection reveals something new about its subjects, while a great collection also reveals something about its author.

I've kept essay collections next to my bed, mostly about eating, cooking, and sitting with family around the table.

Then I thought it would be a linked essay collection.

It takes center stage in the latest essay collection from a distinguished critic of late - modern painting.

His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children's novels, include Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011).

Also, check out her new essay collection What Would Lynne Tillman Do?

Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, How Did You Get This Number and the novel The Clasp.

Inspired by Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth and the Hammer's partnership with Art + Practice, Libros Schmibros takes up Lynell George's No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels, an arts - centric essay collection with sections about Leimert Park.

Nonetheless, Camus showed continuing interest in dialogue with believers — including a famous lecture to Dominican friars after World War II, published in the late essay collection Resistance, Rebellion, and Death — and even discussed religion at his Paris apartment with the then - famous Abbé Altermann, a Jewish convert and Thomist «of the Strict Observance.»

Phillip Lopate's nonfiction books include essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body); film criticism... read more

Schumer, star of the hit show «Inside Amy Schumer,» hops on the personal essay collection bandwagon with what promises to be a hilarious, soul - bearing memoir for fans of Tina Fey's Bossypants and Amy Poehler's Yes Please.

Her inaugural column considered Harlem is Nowhere, a debut essay collection by the young Sharifa Rhodes - Pitts.

But while the erstwhile Hannah never lived up to that sweeping statement, Sloane Crosley is getting close, consistently delivering since her bestselling 2008 debut essay collection, I Was Told There'd Be Cake.

Several new books on the Beatles and their music are being published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's including a nostalgic and entertaining essay collection, In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs.

She also loves editing coming - of - age stories, memoirs, and nonfiction essay collections.

JOHNSTONE: Though I grew up loving fiction, I've been reading memoirs and essay collections for the past five plus years.

That's proven a useful concept in my reading life — having temporarily exhausted my interest in a particular branch of reading, I turn to a short work or essay collection as a kind of mental tornagusto.

Russell is Buffett's favorite philosopher, and these short essay collections show why.

Then there is Duncan Stroik's splendidly illustrated essay collection, The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal (Hillenbrand Books).

And, as is the case with most essay collections, this book has the inevitable redundancies and longueurs.

Heaven knows, I was even a contributor to the excellent essay collection Reinventing the State.

Ahead of the 2015 General Election I published a co-edited essay collection (together with Ian Geary) on Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2015), with contributions by Lord Maurice Glasman, Jon Cruddas MP, Tom Watson MP, Frank Field MP, David Lammy MP, Ruth Davis, Arnie Graf and Rowenna Davis — including a foreword by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.

In new super-personal essay collections, they reassess their past self - help advice.

If Bazin's classic essay collection was titled What is Cinema?

Charmed by the odd coincidence of a book she once owned finding its way to the middle of the English Channel, Juliet sends back several of Lamb's other essay collections, together with a warm letter.

Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.

In this witty, provocative, and deeply informed essay collection, Lepore considers how perceptions about life and death in all their weighty complexity have evolved over time in the realms of religion, law, and politics.

Next week, new memoirs arrive from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Russo and romance author Daneille Steel, along with a posthumous essay collection from David Foster Wallace and historian Thomas E. Ricks» critique of the American military since WWII.

Not bad for a Twitter account - turned essay collection, an undertaking I wouldn't trust anyone to pull off with as much realness and grace as Broder.

«There are a couple of things that authors need to realize,» said Rachel Thompson, author of the upcoming essay collection Broken Pieces and bestselling author of A Walk in the Snark and Mancode: Exposed.

With her newest essay collection Look Alive Out There, she...

Presenting historical parallels to the present, Coates» essay collection examines the recurrence of certain themes in the black community, the need for uplift and self - reliance, debate over how to respond to racism, and virulent reactions to racial progress.

A good essay collection reveals something new about its subjects, while a great collection also reveals something...

Way back in 2012, a frustrated journalist working on a couple of humor essay collections stumbled across a blog post entitled: «Why your self - published book...

Emily Stone calls her resulting essay collection layered, literary and unflinchingly honest about the solitude of travel.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin's Press 2010) and the new essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017).

2015 also saw the release of several essay collections, including Shooter, a roundup of essays on various genre entries and edited by Reid McCarter and Patrick Lindsey, as well as The State of Play, edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson.

Kimball's previous essay collection hammered home that same message, under cover of a repeated, unexplained, and unexamined appeal to beauty.

The color was there in the purply - blue block of dripping paint slapped on the cover of my favorite book of the year, Durga Chew - Bose's essay collection Too Much and Not The Mood (FSG Originals), a blue title if there ever was one.

«A terrific essay collection with quick and pithy profiles of famous and not - famous women artists — Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Kara Walker, etc..

This collection is complemented by the Legal Essays collection available from the Davis Law Library.

Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, How Did You Get This Number and... (more)

In new personal essay collections, they reassess their past self - help advice.

In 1994, Jennings published One Teacher in Ten, the first of what would be three essay collections by LGBT teachers documenting their coming - out...

On the literary front, several new books on the band and its music are being published to coincide with the anniversary, including a nostalgic and entertaining essay collection, In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs.