american essays

Presents a collection of humorous essays in which the author reflects on various moments throughout his life, relating them all back to a discussion of love, family, and what it means to accept oneself entirely.

Angelou talks about her most personal experiences and reveals her outlook on a wide variety of subjects.

Humorist David Sedaris presents twenty-two essays on such topics as his childhood neighbors who did not own a television and his job cleaning apartments in New York.

Presents a collection of essays originally published in various periodicals throughout the twentieth century, written by a number of noted writers including Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, John Updike, and many others.

"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"--Provided by publisher.

The powerful essays in Paul Crenshaw?s This One Will Hurt You range in subject matter from the fierce tornadoes that crop up in Tornado Alley every spring and summer to a supposedly haunted one-hundred-year-old tuberculosis sanatorium that he lived on the grounds of as a child. They ruminate on the effects of crystal meth on small southern towns, Maurice Sendak?s Where the Wild Things Are, and the ongoing struggle of being a parent in an increasingly disturbing world. They surprise, whether discovering a loved one?s secret, an opossum?s motivation, or the unexpected decision four beer-guzzling, college-aged men must make. They tell stories of family and the past, the histories of small things such as walls and weather, and the faith it takes to hold together in the face of death.

Collects twenty-eight essays by American writers such as Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Leonard Everett Fisher, Sandra Cisneros, and John F. Kennedy.

An anthology of classic and contemporary essays on themes of education, ethics, family, gender, history and politics, identity, media and pop culture, race and culture, work and class, reading, writing, speaking, and science, nature, and the environment; featuring selections from Maya Angelou, E.B. White, Sherman Alexie, Plato, Sojourner Truth, Thomas Jefferson, David Sedaris, and others.

Contains ten personal essays by author John McPhee on a variety of themes and topics, including lacrosse, the U.S. Open golf championship, and outings with his mother.

[Presents a collection of essays that] uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in doing so proves himself a bellwether for our times"--Back cover.