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Use your library card and PIN to access a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history in the Gale Archives Unbound database.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Even before there was a road, there was a route. Buffalo trails, Indian paths, the old Santa Fe trace-- all led across the Great Plains and the western mountains to the golden oasis of California. America's insatiable westering urge culminated in Route 66, the highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Opened in 1926, Route 66 became the quintessential American road. It offered the chance for freedom and a better life, whether you were down-and-out...
Publisher
State University of New York (SUNY) Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Fourth edition.
Language
English
Description
"Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, this collection expores, as coeditor Cherrie Moraga writes, 'the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation'"--Back cover.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work--essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The...
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Language
English
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"The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts...
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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For the magazine's centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair. Editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a murderers' row of the world's leading literary lights. It features great writers on great topics, including F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be, Clarence Darrow on equality, D.H. Lawrence on women, e.e. cummings on...
Publisher
Weeping Willow Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Women over fifty are "the invisible woman" in American culture. In a society that reveres youth - and particularly young, sexy women - women over fifty fade into the shadows. Yet, for many women at mid-life, this is a time of flowering and coming into one's own, sexually and otherwise. Many older women love sex and crave the intimacy it provides. For every story of a harried mother who turns her husband away at night, or the older woman who long...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"One hundred incisive, idiosyncratic essays on life and theater from a major American playwright "Don't send your characters to reform school!" pleads Sarah Ruhl in one of her essays. With titles as varied as "On Lice" to "On Sleeping in Theaters" and "Motherhood and Stools (The Furniture Kind)," these essays are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between. The pieces combine admonition, celebration,...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Contains "a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his habitual greeting, "Hey, Out There." Ranging across diverse subjects such as favorite recent reads, the challenge...
Publisher
John Daniel and Co
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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"This collection of stories, essays, and poems celebrates the ... richness and diversity of Santa Barbara's people, landscape, and history, from its Native American beginnings, through the Spanish colonial period, to the present."--Cover.
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