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Best American Essays 2021 (Paperback): Robert Atwan Best American Essays 2021 (Paperback)
Robert Atwan
R448 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R79 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz "The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz selected are a powerful time capsule of 2020, showcasing that even if our lives as we knew them stopped, the beauty to be found in them flourished. From an intimate account of nursing a loved one in the early days of the pandemic, to a masterful portrait of grieving the loss of a husband as the country grieved the loss of George Floyd, this collection brilliantly shapes the grief, hardship, and hope of a singular year. The Best American Essays 2021 includes ELIZABETH ALEXANDER - HILTON ALS - GABRIELLE HAMILTON - RUCHIR JOSHI - PATRICIA LOCKWOOD- CLAIRE MESSUD - WESLEY MORRIS - BETH NGUYEN - JESMYN WARD and others

The Best American Essays 2023: Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2023
Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick. Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Essays Of The Century (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays Of The Century (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan; Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan
R629 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R82 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, “into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we’ve come from, and who we are, and where we are going.” Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.


The Best American Essays 2018 (Paperback): Hilton Als, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2018 (Paperback)
Hilton Als, Robert Atwan 1
R439 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R72 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Best American Essays 2022 (Paperback): Alexander Chee, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2022 (Paperback)
Alexander Chee, Robert Atwan
R400 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R80 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Essays 2020 (Paperback): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2020 (Paperback)
Robert Atwan
R463 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R78 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Andre Aciman "quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years" (Los Angeles Review of Books) and one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.

River Teeth - Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction (Paperback): Joe Mackall, Daniel W. Lehman River Teeth - Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction (Paperback)
Joe Mackall, Daniel W. Lehman; Foreword by Robert Atwan
R701 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Save R111 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nationally recognized River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction - including essays, memoir, and literary journalism - since 1999. To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection. Essays include up-and-coming authors as well as luminaries such as Ann Hood, Lee Martin, Chris Offutt, Angela Morales, Brenda Miller, Judith Kitchen, Ted Kooser, and Andrew Dubus III. River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction further includes a thoughtful foreword by Robert Atwan that illuminates the importance, breadth, and reach of the journal and shows the diversity of nonfiction writing available in the twenty-first century. A trailblazing publication since its inception, River Teeth continues to share the important work of contemporary writers and will thrive for years to come.

The Best American Essays, College Edition (Paperback, 7th): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays, College Edition (Paperback, 7th)
Robert Atwan
R1,790 R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Save R283 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, Seventh College Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays are thematically arranged and selected from the popular trade series of the same name. They also cover common rhetorical modes, including narration and argumentation, providing instructors optimal flexibility with respect to course approach. In the introduction, Robert Atwan offers an overview of various types of essays to prepare students for the readings that follow. To further prepare students, "Essayists on the Essay" offers insightful commentaries about the genre from many of today's top writers. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http: //gocengage.com/infotrac.

Best American Essays 2014 (Paperback): Robert Atwan Best American Essays 2014 (Paperback)
Robert Atwan
R426 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R54 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating." -- "Publishers Weekly"

"The Best American Essays 2014" is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection "Pulphead." The" New York Times" placed Sullivan "among the best young nonfiction writers in English" and the "New York Times Book Review" heralded "Pulphead "as "the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.""

The Best American Essays 2012 (Paperback, 2012 ed.): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2012 (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Robert Atwan
R589 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R73 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Best American Series(R)
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
"The Best American Essays 2012" includes
Marcia Angell, Miah Arnold, Mark Doty, Joseph Epstein, Jonathan Franzen,
Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Lauren Slater,
Sandra Tsing Loh, Jose Antonio Vargas, and others

The Best American Essays 2011 (Paperback, None): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2011 (Paperback, None)
Robert Atwan
R507 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R64 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Best American Series(R)
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.
"The Best American Essays 2011" includes
Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens,
Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith,
Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others

The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2008 ed.): Adam Gopnik, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Adam Gopnik, Robert Atwan
R540 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R67 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here you will find the finest essays "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper's to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year's edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have "text and inner text, personal story and larger point, the thing you're supposed to be paying attention to and some other thing you're really interested in." David Sedaris's quirky, hilarious account of a childhood spent yearning for a home where history was properly respected is also a poignant rumination on surviving the passage of time. In "The Ecstasy of Influence," Jonathan Lethem ponders the intriguing phenomenon of cryptomnesia: a person believes herself to be creating something new but is really recalling similar, previously encountered work. Ariel Levy writes in "The Lesbian Bride's Handbook" of her efforts to plan a party that accurately reflects her lifestyle (which she notes is "not black-tie!") as she confronts head-on what it means to be married. And Lauren Slater is off to "Tripp Lake," recounting the one summer she spent at camp--a summer of color wars, horseback riding, and the "wild sadness" that settled in her when she was away from home.
In the end, Gopnik believes that the only real ambition of an essayist is to be a master of our common life. This latest installment of The Best American Essays is full of writing that reveals, in Gopnik's words, "the breath of things as they are."

The Best American Essays 2009 (Paperback, 2009 ed.): Mary Oliver, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2009 (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Mary Oliver, Robert Atwan
R401 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R50 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Edited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this "rich and thoughtful collection" ("Publishers Weekly") offers the finest essays "judiciously selected from countless publications" ("Chicago Tribune").

The Best American Essays 2005 (Paperback, 2005 ed.): Susan Orlean, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2005 (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Susan Orlean, Robert Atwan
R557 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R64 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.
The Best American Essays 2005 includes
Roger Angell - Andrea Barrett - Jonathan Franzen - Ian Frazier - Edward Hoagland - Ted Kooser - Jonathan Lethem - Danielle Ofri - Oliver Sacks - Cathleen Schine - David Sedaris - Robert Stone - David Foster Wallace - and others
Susan Orlean, guest editor, is the author of My Kind of Place, The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, and Saturday Night. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1982, she has also written for Outside, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.

The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2006): Lauren Slater, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2006)
Lauren Slater, Robert Atwan
R510 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R57 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes from great pain."
The twenty powerful essays in this volume are culled from periodicals ranging from The Sun to The New Yorker, from Crab Orchard Review to Vanity Fair. In "Missing Bellow," Scott Turow reflects on the death of an author he never met, but one who "overpowered me in a way no other writer had." Adam Gopnik confronts a different kind of death, that of his five-year-old daughter's pet fish -- a demise that churns up nothing less than "the problem of consciousness and the plotline of Hitchock's Vertigo."
A pet is center stage as well in Susan Orlean's witty and compassionate saga of a successful hunt for a stolen border collie. Poe Ballantine chronicles a raw-nerved pilgrimage in search of salvation, solace, and a pretty brunette, and Laurie Abraham, in "Kinsey and Me," journeys after the man who dared to plumb the mysteries of human desire. Marjorie Williams gives a harrowing yet luminous account of her life with cancer, and Michele Morano muses on the grammar of the subjunctive mood while proving that "in language, as in life, moods are complicated, but at least in language there are only two."

The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2004 ed.): Louis Menand, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Louis Menand, Robert Atwan
R603 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R72 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
Here you will find another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" (Booklist), chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand, another collection with "delights on every page" (Dallas Morning News). The Best American Essays once again earns its place as the liveliest and leading annual of its kind.

The Best American Essays 2003 (Paperback, 2003 ed.): Anne Fadiman, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2003 (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
Anne Fadiman, Robert Atwan
R610 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R71 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, Geoffrey C. Ward, Cynthia Ozick, and Stephen Jay Gould. This year’s volume is terrifically diverse, with subjects ranging from driving lessons to animal rights to citizenship in times of emergency.


Best American Essays 2000 (Paperback, 2000 ed.): Lightman Best American Essays 2000 (Paperback, 2000 ed.)
Lightman; Edited by Alan P. Lightman, Robert Atwan
R488 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R60 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year’s finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent genre unlike any other. This year’s pieces embrace stylistic freedom and strong opinions and afford the reader a fascinating view of the writer’s mind as it struggles with truth, memory, and experience. Featured writers include Jamaica Kincaid, Edward Hoagland, Cynthia Ozick, Mary Gordon, Edwidge Danticat, and others.


The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2001st 2001 ed.): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2001st 2001 ed.)
Robert Atwan
R567 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R63 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This year’s Best American Essays is edited by the best-selling, award-winning writer Kathleen Norris, whose books include Dakota andThe Virgin of Bennington. “The writers in this volume invite us into hidden places: a surgical pathologist’s laboratory, the boxing gym where a college professor and his student learn unexpected lessons about discipline, pain, and growing to adulthood. There are many discoveries to be made here, and I gladly invite the reader to an uncommonly rich and rewarding book.” — Kathleen Norris


The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2013 ed.): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Robert Atwan
R535 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the "New York Times" best-selling author of "Wild" and the writer of the celebrated column "Dear Sugar," this collection is a treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays.

The Best American Essays 2015 (Paperback): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2015 (Paperback)
Robert Atwan
R403 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R50 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Divine Inspiration - The Life of Jesus in World Poetry (Hardcover, New): Robert Atwan, George Dardess, Peggy Rosenthal Divine Inspiration - The Life of Jesus in World Poetry (Hardcover, New)
Robert Atwan, George Dardess, Peggy Rosenthal
R2,167 Discovery Miles 21 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Bible is by far the leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's life and teaching.

Readers accustomed to the predictable inclusions of many anthologies will be surprised and delighted by the diversity of poets represented here, from Aquinas, Dante, de Guevara, Donne, and Sor Juana, to D.H. Lawrence, Gabriela Mistral, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Czeslaw Milosz, and Leopold Senghor. Perhaps no other thematically organized anthology could have brought together writers as different as Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Merton, Alice Walker, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Jack Kerouac. Indeed, simply to turn the page in Divine Inspiration is an adventure in itself. And in terms of form, style, modulations of tone and perspective, the variety here is as unparalleled as it is unpredictable.

The editors of Divine Inspiration have done a masterful job of unifying this vast assortment of poems. Organized chronologically around the life of Jesus, the book is divided into nine sections--Birth and Infancy, Preparation for Public Ministry, Healings and Miracles, and so on--and presents passages from the Gospels followed by the poems they inspired. This structure gives readers the dual pleasures of a strong narrative pull punctuated by moments of extraordinary lyric intensity. Our familiarity with the life of Jesus is thus enlivened, deepened, and in some cases wholly transformed by the imaginative power of the poems. In the largest section of the book, on the Passion of Jesus, we find a breathtaking array of poems by Anna Akhmatova, Antonio Machado, Thomas Hardy, Miguel de Unamuno, Charles Baudelaire, R.S. Thomas, Andrew Marvell, Frederico Garcia Lorca, and Denise Levertov, among others. To see the Passion of Jesus refracted through the lenses of such poets is to see it anew, or more vividly than before. And to encounter Chinese, Korean, Nigerian, Arab, Latin American, Scandinavian, Hungarian, and Greek poets alongside English, French, and German is a testimony both to the editors' devoted scholarship and to the power of Jesus's life to inspire great poetry across a spectrum of cultures and eras.

An invaluable sourcebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike, Divine Inspiration should prove equally satisfying to readers with a strong interest in religion and to all lovers of poetry.

The Best American Essays 2016 (Paperback, 2016 ed.): Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2016 (Paperback, 2016 ed.)
Robert Atwan
R417 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R67 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chapters into Verse - A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation (Paperback,... Chapters into Verse - A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem alongside the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--among them John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection also assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Laura (Riding) Jackson, A.D. Hope, Denise Levertov, and Philip Levine.

Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old and New Testament. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture profoundly and imaginatively.

Chapters into Verse: Volume One: Genesis to Malachi (Hardcover, New): Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder Chapters into Verse: Volume One: Genesis to Malachi (Hardcover, New)
Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder
R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones, from devotional and meditative, to sardonic or political.

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