Episode 498 | Jennifer Baker Interview
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Best American Essays 2016 (The Best American Series ®)
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A true essay is “something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author’s personal experience and subjectivity,” writes guest editor Jonathan Franzen in his introduction. However, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 was, in a word, risk. Whether the risks involved champi... [Read More]
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
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The Best American Sports Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)
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J. R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize–winning feature writer and the author of The Tender Bar, has selected the best in sports writing from the past year. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications and, increasingly, the top sports blogs, this collection showcases those journalists who are at the top of their gam... [Read More]
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The Best American Sports Writing 2011 (The Best American Series ®)
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Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays
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Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.Joseph Epstein’s Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays is... [Read More]
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey Collection)
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School: The Story of American Public Education
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- ASIN: 0807042218
- ISBN: 9780807042212
- Brand: Beacon Press MA
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Esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban journey through history and across the nation to recapture the idealism of our education pioneers, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. We learn how, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, massive immigration, child labor laws, and the ex... [Read More]
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Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited
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This collection of reviews and reevaluations by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley considers lesser-known works from renowned authors and underappreciated talents, and offers fresh takes on old favorites. Yardley’s reviews of sixty titles include fiction by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, John Cheever, and Henry Fielding; the autobiogra... [Read More]
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year) (Classic Seuss)
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A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life
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Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three (New York Review Books Classics)
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David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades.Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the kee... [Read More]
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The Last Black Unicorn
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Russell's Civil War Photographs (Dover Photography Collections)
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Captain A. J. Russell did not photograph celebrities, run fashionable photo galleries, or publish collections of his "views"; most histories of American photography can barely stretch his biographical data into a paragraph. His peers and superiors recognized the quality of his works, but as with other unassuming photographs of the Civil War, many o... [Read More]
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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (The University Center for Human Values Series)
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- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
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The Complete Three Stooges
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Don't Shake the Spoon: A Journal of Prison Writing
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- ISBN: 1973578808
- Manufacturer: Independently published
Don't Shake the Spoon is the literary journal for the prison writing non-profit "Exchange for Change," which works in several South Florida prisons to teach writing of all types. This is the first volume of collected essays, poems, and stories to be released from Exchange for Change, and features writing from several inmate writers.... [Read More]
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
- ASIN: 0374537437
- ISBN: 0374537437
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully... [Read More]
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