Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
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Category: Anthologies
'Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinchi ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2015 by Ariel Levy
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Best American
Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. This year s writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marr ...Show more
Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future by Julianne & Gleeson, Brendan (ed Schultz
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Griffith REVIEW
AUSTRALIAN politics and national life are trapped in a permanent present. There are few opportunities to imagine the future, and even fewer to create it. Politics, commerce, media all focus relentlessly on the here and now. This breeds a corrosive cynicism. Yet when alternatives are presented they are o ...Show more
In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper by Lawrence Block
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Category: Anthologies
"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers." Says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand new stories. The results are remarkable and range across all ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 by Sheila Heti (Editor); 826 National (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year's anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gem ...Show more
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 by John Joseph Adams (Editor); N. K. Jemisin (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient ma ...Show more
The Best American Travel Writing 2018 by Cheryl Strayed (Editor); Jason Wilson (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain: they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they "open a window onto the s ...Show more
The Milk Bowl of Feathers - Essential Surrealist Writings by Mary Ann Caws (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies
Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Café Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Ã%luard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to ...Show more
Korean Folk Tales - Imps, Ghosts, Fairies by Elena Grand
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Category: Anthologies
-Biggest collection of the most interesting tales about Imps, Ghosts, Fairies of Korea-This book includes 53 Korean tales: CHARANTHE STORY OF CHANG TO-RYONGA STORY OF THE FOXCHEUNG PUK-CHANG, THE SEERYUN SE-PYONG, THE WIZARDTHE WILD-CAT WOMANTHE ILL-FATED PRIESTTHE VISION OF THE HOLY MANTHE VISIT OF THE ...Show more
Unattached: Empowering Essays on Singlehood by Angelica Malin
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Category: Anthologies
Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached.Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shaparak Khorsandi to Shon Faye and Stephanie Yeboah write on what single womanhood in the modern age means to them.Have you ever worried about going on holiday alone?Felt queasy at the thought of Valentine's Day ...Show more
Granta #140 : The Mind by Sigrid (EDT) Rausing
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
We know how the brain works, but do we understand the mind? In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world. With new fiction, reportage, poetry, photography, and art add ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 by Melbourne Books
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Category: Anthologies
Each edition of Award Winning Australian Writing represents approximately 50 Writing organisations and competitions around Australia that run short story and poetry writing competitions. A sample of those represented includes: Alan Marshall Short Story Award Banjo Paterson Writing Award Bruce Dawe Na ...Show more