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Autobiographies. bibliography biography essay Essays Essays. Poetry. Short stories.Summary: "The Pushcart Prize is the only annual anthology to exclusively showcase the very best writing from America's alternative literary presses. Each year contributing editors, whose ranks include the most important writers of today, along with hundreds of small presses, nominate thousands of stories, poems, essays and memoirs for inclusion in Pushcart's collection. This unique submissions process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSSummary: Wesley Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York times critic, selects 20 essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The presidential election of 2008 -- Our Michelle -- Reverend Wright revisited -- The United States, past and present -- Personalities -- Profiles -- Race talk -- Sports -- Rita Dove -- African American literature -- Racial identity, enslavement, and the law -- In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World, Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction-funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient-which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ATWRoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROTKushner, Rachel
Summary: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Didion, Joan
Summary: "Faced with the deaths of her husband and her only child within a two-year span, Joan Didion confronted a grief that 'none of us know until we reach it.' Two of her finest works, 'The year of magical thinking' (a winner of the National Book Award) and 'Blue nights,' chart this experience with startling honesty. These unforgettable memoirs, and the dramatic adaptation 'The year of magical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2024