The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays & Letters
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. ...Show more
Origins of a Story by Jake Grogan
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Category: Essays & Letters
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The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: near fine
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American ...Show more
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill by Adrian Gill
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Category: Essays & Letters
A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated every page. This second collection of his journalism brings together pieces from near and far. He was ferociously well-travelled and ...Show more
Self-Reliance: The Original 1841 Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Essays & Letters
When Ralph Waldo Emerson published what is probably his most famous essay in 1841, drawing from a lecture he had given a few years earlier, it was in the aftermath of the calamitous financial collapse of 1837. His positive vision for the power of individualism and personal responsibility was issued in a ...Show more
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
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Category: Essays & Letters
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more
The Positive Side of the Street: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Lectures by Napoleon Hill
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Category: Essays & Letters
In 1964, Napoleon Hill presented a series of lectures that have never been published--until now. "The subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between a penny and a million dollars. It does not know the difference between success and failure, and it'll work just as hard to make a failure out of ...Show more
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of na ...Show more
Griffith Review 58: The Novella Project V: Storied Lives by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays & Letters
Every life offers a unique story - but there are lives that stand out so distinctly that they leave a mark on the world. How do some people make such a difference?Griffith Review 58- Storied Lives - The Novella Project V focuses on people who have effected change in their world, and in the lives of thos ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
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Category: Essays & Letters
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Time to Listen An Indigenous Voice to Parliament by Melissa Castan, Lynette Russell
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a ' First Nations Voice' was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Statement from the Heart-- als ...Show more