"A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable...

"A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the...

"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...

"Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985,...

獻給 每一個跟時間賽跑的兒女 人生裡有些事，就是不能蹉跎…… 　　我們出生在山河破碎的時代裡， 　　你們讓我們從滿目荒涼中站起來， 　　志氣滿懷走出去。 　　現在你們步履蹣跚、不言不語了—— 　　我們，可以給你們什麼呢？—龍應台 　　禁語行禪時龍應台瞬間決定：放下一切，回鄉陪伴失智的母親，開始寫信。 　　十九封信...

★從一幢神祕的老屋，看見橫跨三代，經歷二次世界大戰的德國人，最貼近真實生活的歷史 　　★鄭華娟搞笑史上最艱鉅的任務！一段淚水與笑聲交織的真實故事！ 　　 　　以講求秩序而聞名的德國，竟有不少老人囤積成疾？燈泡這樣平凡的生活日用品，卻曾在德國停產六年？二戰結束當天燃起的街燈，引來全村莊的人圍觀感嘆？ 　　 　　一份突如其來的遺囑、一幢堆滿雜物的老屋，讓他們整整花了一年的時間清理。隨著一扇扇被打開的房門，塵封已久的祕密與寶物逐一重見天日……華娟以特有的風趣筆調，帶你一起走進這個交織著微光與淚光的故事。...

Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

A collection of Kay G. Rock's monthly columns from the Bucks County Herald, 2011-2015.

A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time.

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000 acre wildfire, threatening her century old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the...