american essays

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld shares some of his humorous thoughts on a variety of topics.

Contains essays in which journalist Joan Didion writes of people, places, and events of the 1960s and 70s, including the Manson family, the John Paul Getty museum, and others.

Contains thirty-two essays by Pushcart Prize-winning writer and editor Judith Kitchen in which she explores subjects of time and place, both real and imagined.

Presents an extended meditation on the meaning of life by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard.

Photographs, illustrations, and hand-written text by the author chronicle a year of her travels across the United States and her reflections on democracy, beginning with a celebration of Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington, D.C., and including the study of several presidents and political sites.

Presents an anthology of twenty-five essays covering creative nonfiction of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Contains an annotated edition of American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1832-60 prose works including "Nature, Addresses, and Lectures," "Essays: First Series," "Essays: Second Series," "Representative Men," "English Traits," and "The Conduct of Life.".

Presents essays about sports chosen from magazines and newspapers published in 2012, on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing.

The second entry in a well-received annual series features the author of Sellout as its guest editor and includes essays on such topics as Obama's presidential race, pop culture, and sports.

Presents essays about sports chosen from magazines and newspapers published in 2009, on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing.