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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay.By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A multifaceted global memoir reflecting on Bee's adoption from Cameroon, her childhood experiences with public housing and homelessness in rural France, Lyon, and London, her immigration as a teen to Nevada, and eventually rethinking her devotion to evangelical Christianity at Harvard Law. Home Bound touches on constructions of home, and the issues of identity that can complicate it, including class, race, education, faith, and nationality"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com.
Series
Lannan literary volume no. 83
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Writer and naturalist Chet Raymo teaches physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts and writes a science column for the Boston Globe. Here Mr. Raymo reads from his works followed by an interview with author Scott Russell Sanders