"Activist, actress, and ... author Gabrielle Union is back with an even more intimate, revealing, and powerful collection of essays"--

A guide to writing the personal essay, including the basics of essay writing, how to move past private "journaling," and instructions for revision and strategies for getting published.

A collection of essays, speeches, letters, reviews, etc. includes pieces that explore such topics as religious fundamentalism, Russian literature, and the possibility of an African-American president.

"A compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading"--

Liang Shih-chiu, was a renowned educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer. This book contains classic articles and proses composed by Liang Shih-Chiu, such as: "House", "Mahjong", "Beiping Yearly Views". They fully presented the spiritual world and life joys of Liang. Appreciate all beings in the witty words, and see the lives of thousands in knowing smiles. The road of life, whether you say it is the road of roses or the road...

Han Han is a social phenomenon. He's a rally driver, the blogger who gets verifiable top hits, a controversial writer and magazine publisher, and at 28, is 12th on the "most influential people in the world" by Time magazine right behind Nancy Pelosi and two places ahead of Michelle Obama. In this collection of essays, he posts and comments on a flurry of social issues and outdated norms.

Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. [...] From meditations on extinction, to the search for alien life, to the prejudice that infects our medical system, the pieces in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing seek to bring to the people stories of some of the most pressing issues facing our planet, as well as moments of wonder...

"More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up ... for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back--along with sixteen voices--sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of womens' lives today"--Dust jacket flap.

"Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion--a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates...

Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000. This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...