Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: near fine
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
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Category: Essays & Letters
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author 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 ...Show more
Sleeping among Sheep under a Starry Sky - Essays 1985-2021 by Wallace Shawn
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Category: Essays & Letters
'Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking.' - Toni Morrison
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Essays & Letters
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more
From the Heart Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy
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Category: Essays & Letters
'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. In From the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for reminding her of the importance of musi ...Show more
Conversations with Dickens: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Paul Schlicke
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Category: Essays & Letters
Sheltering from a summer downpour, you encounter the ghost of Charles Dickens. Join him for a chat in the inn beloved by Mr Pickwick and be swept away by his vigour, warmth and humanity. You'll feel as if you've known him all your life. The great novelist Charles Dickens attracted international adulati ...Show more
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters
Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for no place and good place. But is an ideal society unattainable — or optimal?This edition of Griffith Review visits utopias old and new, near and far, to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a b ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
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Category: Essays & Letters
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into th ...Show more
Anything Can Happen by Susan Hampton
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Category: Essays & Letters
Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia’s literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
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Category: Essays & Letters
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more