Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston; Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Introduction by); Genevieve West (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine's Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, critic ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. ...Show more
People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure and loose living by Sally Olds
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. ...Show more
Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Collected for the first time celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender. Witness to the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the civil rights movement and anti-war and environmental activism, Le Guin continued to fight for social and envi ...Show more
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra; Megan McDowell (Translator)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading. Whether it is in the course of a carefully considered commentary on a specific book, or in the digressions born out of a piece on this or that author - from Par ...Show more
Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras (translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan )
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art. In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert t ...Show more
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Octavia Estelle Butler
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Octavia E. Butler's work broke innumerable barriers and helped open the field of science fiction to writers and readers it had never had before. As the first Black writer to win the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards, her courage and vision left a peerless legacy for fans not just of science fiction, but of ...Show more
Povo by Adam Novaldy Anderson (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australia’s cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country — a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the tr ...Show more