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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
2) Calypso
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English
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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A new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between...
5) Lifeform
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A humorous collection of genre-bending essays depicting Jenny Slate's journey into motherhood, told in five phases--Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing--through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches,...
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Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the...
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2025.
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English
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In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2025.
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English
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In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical 2018 essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a leading public intellectual and a bold cartographer of the new landscape of taste itself. Authority brings together sharp, illuminating essays on everything from musical theater to sci-fi novels, as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of personal essays. Throughout,...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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From beloved author Roxane Gay, comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze?...
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw, and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with an almost devotional attention to the natural...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2025.
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English
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Explores the lives of dedicated government workers, from an IRS agent to a coal mine safety expert, showcasing how their behind-the-scenes work addresses societal problems, challenges stereotypes, and reveals the critical, often unnoticed contributions of public servants.
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2025.
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English
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A humorous memoir by the acclaimed comedian, sharing stories from his life as a self-described "non-genius" following a childhood head injury. Blending personal anecdotes with observational comedy, Bargatze reflects on growing up in the South, his early struggles, quirky life experiences, and his rise to comedy fame. The book features lighthearted tales about family, everyday absurdities, and cultural confusion, offering readers a mix of heartfelt...
18) Little weirds
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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The actress, stand-up comedian and best-selling author explores her internal self, dreams and insecurities through bursts of writing on a wide range of subjects from heartbreak and divorce, to the smell of honeysuckle and a French-kissing rabbit.
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