american essays

Provides a collection of newspaper columns by Pulitzer Prize winning humorist, Dave Barry.

A collection of articles, essays, and polemics from the Canadian writer Cory Doctorow that features selections entitled "Microsoft Research DRM Talk," "Downloads Give Amazon Jungle Fever," "Amish for QWERTY," "Warhol is Turning in his Grave," and others.

Ayn Rand challenges the prevalent philosophical doctrines of the twentieth century and the guilt, panic, and despair they create.

Includes articles chosen from magazines and newspapers on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing.

Includes articles chosen from magazines and newspapers on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing.

A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today. Teenage girls today live their life in words--in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It's how they conduct their friendships and present themselves to the world, but they are also creating a formidable body of personal written work. This generation's unprecedented comfort level with the written word has led to a fearless new American literature. These collected essays offer a key to understanding one of the most mislabeled and underestimated members of society. Here, nearly sixty teenage girls from across the country, representing a diverse spectrum of socioeconomic, political, racial, and religious backgrounds, create a rich portrait of life as a teen girl in America today, revealing the complicated inner lives, humor, hopes, struggles, thrills, and obsessions of this generation.--From publisher description.

Presents twenty-seven essays by nineteenth-century American nature writer and political thinker Henry David Thoreau, in which he addresses a variety of topics and concerns; and includes a selection of Thoreau's poems.

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.