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Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

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National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescent indictment of capitalism’s moral decay.In Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy, against hate spreading like a virus. He grieves for children ... Read more

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National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescent indictment of capitalism’s moral decay.In Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy, against hate spreading like a virus. He grieves for children
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The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

by Daniel Borzutzky ...

“All I ever wanted is to keep the police away from the outside of my body and keep the police away from the inside of my body.”In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky holds to account the private interests driving Western humanitarian decisions, laying bare the immense toll of exploitative labor practices and the self-serving nature of authoritative ... Read more

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“All I ever wanted is to keep the police away from the outside of my body and keep the police away from the inside of my body.”In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky holds to account the private interests driving Western humanitarian decisions, laying bare the immense toll of exploitative labor practices and the self-serving nature of authoritative
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Beyond Ourselves

Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser

by Daniel Borzutzky, Susan Briante, Stacy Hardy, Erika Meitner, Philip Metres, Jena Osman, Deborah Paredez, Khadijah Queen, Solmaz Sharif, Nomi Stone ...

Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that poetry is an animating force that connects people ... Read more

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Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that poetry is an animating force that connects people
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Lake Michigan

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Series series Pitt Poetry Series
From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human**, winner of the National Book Award for poetry**Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake ... Read more

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From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human**, winner of the National Book Award for poetry**Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake
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Tales of Two Americas

Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

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Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many moreAmerica is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present ... Read more

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Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many moreAmerica is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present
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The Best American Essays 2017

Edited by Leslie Jamison ...

Series series The Best American Series
This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers "essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever" ( Publishers Weekly)."The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; ... Read more

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This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers "essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever" ( Publishers Weekly)."The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions;
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The Best American Essays 2019

Edited by Robert Atwan ...

Series series The Best American Series
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit."Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and ... Read more

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A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit."Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and
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The Best American Essays 2021

by Robert Atwan ...

Series series The Best American Series
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

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A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz
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The CEO of the Sofa

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Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato—also known as "the funniest writer in America" ( The Wall Street Journal).Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times–bestselling humorist. Over the course of the year, in between rants, he does occasionally leave the sofa and ... Read more

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Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato—also known as "the funniest writer in America" ( The Wall Street Journal).Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times–bestselling humorist. Over the course of the year, in between rants, he does occasionally leave the sofa and
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The Best American Essays 2016

Edited by Jonathan Franzen ...

Series series The Best American Series
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from ... Read more

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The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from
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The Best American Essays 2022

by Robert Atwan, Alexander Chee ...

Series series Best American
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.This edition, drawing from hundreds of national and regional periodicals, assembles personal essays that capture urgent private struggles during a period of national crisis.Featured essayists, including Gary Shteyngart, Melissa Febos, and the late Anthony Veasna So, probe personal vulnerability across memoir ... Read more

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A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.This edition, drawing from hundreds of national and regional periodicals, assembles personal essays that capture urgent private struggles during a period of national crisis.Featured essayists, including Gary Shteyngart, Melissa Febos, and the late Anthony Veasna So, probe personal vulnerability across memoir
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Finding the Words

Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules

by Jared Bland ...

Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada.In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir the mind and heart. By turns inspiring, provocative, witty, and compelling, these diverse and original ... Read more

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Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada.In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir the mind and heart. By turns inspiring, provocative, witty, and compelling, these diverse and original
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