When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: good
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ("The Christian Science Monitor") is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Letters by Frank Kermode
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
This panoramic survey of one of the most intimate of art forms offers more than 300 letters spanning five centuries. Selected by two leading literary critics, they chronicle the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians to poets, and from the famous to the unknown.Thei ...Show more
The Sleepers Almanac No. 7 by Zoe Dattner & Louise Swinn
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Every year, Sleepers assembles a motley crew of new and established (but mostly new - mostly never heard of) writers for their critically acclaimed collection of short fiction (with occasional miscellany): The Sleepers Almanac. This year sees new stories from people the eds had previously not heard of, ...Show more
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
"Reality Hunger" is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores - the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real - play ...Show more
Inner Workings - Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J M Coetzee
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: good
The Best Australian Essays: 2005 by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
A collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulti ...Show more
Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books by Sandra Newman
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
In 2009 it was How Not to Write a Novel ("A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide". "Observer"). In 2010 it's "Read This Next" - Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark have written the perfect book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose what to read next. But this is far more than a gui ...Show more
Literary Occasions : Essays by V.S. Naipaul (ed Pankaj Mishra)
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; ...Show more
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: good-very good
"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to ha ...Show more
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connection ...Show more
Why Not Catch-21? : The Stories Behind the Titles by Gary Dexter
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
"Why Not Catch 21?" is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running "Sunday Telegraph" column. Each of its fifty chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition ...Show more