PRISCILLA LONG is a Seattle-based writer, writing teacher, and editor. She is the author of Crossing Over: Poems, The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, and Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry.
14 Ebooks von John Griswold
John Griswold: Pirates You Don“t Know
“In this beautiful book about striving and surviving, every essay displays a well-stocked brain grappling with life’s thorny problems.”—Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal For n …
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Priscilla Long: Fire and Stone
The questions that drive Priscilla Long’s Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? …
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€27.99
Tracy Daugherty: Let Us Build Us a City
With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual’s relationship to th …
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Dustin Parsons: Exploded View
In Exploded View “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print. As with a graphic novel, the story is not only in the te …
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€25.99
Michael Martone: Brooding
This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the …
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€25.99
Clinton Crockett Peters: Pandora’s Garden
Pandora’s Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essa …
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Andrew Menard: Learning from Thoreau
Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America’s most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book consists not in learning “about” Thoreau from an intermediary but …
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John Griswold: Herrin
Herrin, Illinois, has seen many dramatic events unfold in the nearly two hundred years since it was a bell-shaped prairie on the frontier. Now, Herrin native John Griswold, a writer and teacher at th …
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€16.73
Debra Monroe: My Unsentimental Education
A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of “many delights” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). A misfit in Spooner, Wisco …
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€28.13
Sonja Livingston: Ladies Night at the Dreamland
Tales of female daredevils, warriors, killers, and victims: “Radiant essays inspired by ‘slivers and bits’ of real women’s lives…Wise, fresh, captivating.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At t …
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€29.47
John Griswold & Isaiah Wilson III: Thinking beyond Boundaries
Managing a national response to transnational, boundary-crashing events requires leaders to link the strategic tools of defense, diplomacy, and development.Written under the direction of West Point s …
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€29.02
John Griswold: The Age of Clear Profit
At age fifty, when many hope to slow down, and what’s left, as the poet Kobayashi Issa once wrote, is “clear profit, ” John Griswold was starting over—-again—-in a position he had worked decades to a …
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€29.99
David P. Auerswald & Colton C. Campbell: Congress and Civil-Military Relations
While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations-the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leader …
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€35.88
