During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston was praised for her writing but condemned for her independence and audacity. Her work fell into obscurity until the 1970s, when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurstons unmarked grave and anthologized her writing, establishing her as an intellectual leader for future generations of black writers.
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive
A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
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One Long River of Song
Notes on Wonder for the Spiritual and Nonspiritual Alike
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A playful, deeply moving book of spiritual essays-for the spiritual and non-spiritual alike-that excavate the rich seams of examined life and point to the miracles that surround us.
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He Held Radical Light
The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
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A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets
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Possessed by Memory
The Inward Light of Criticism
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In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.
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Collected Schizophrenias
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
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Six Facets Of Light
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Shes a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches. Hilary Mantel
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Body & Soul
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BODY & SOUL: STORIES FOR SKEPTICS AND SEEKERS is a spiritual journey through experiences that can be liberating but also awkward and sometimes even dangerous, because women are so often excluded from conversations about spirituality.
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Source of Self-Regard
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
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Orwell on Truth
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'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.'
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Essential Goethe
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The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history.
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Art of Mystery
The Search for Questions
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A sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelist
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To The River
A Journey Beneath the Surface
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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing sets out to walk its banks, from the source all the way to the sea. As she walks, she reflects upon the power of rivers, refracting mythology, science, social history and literature through their waters to shed light on their eternal violence and mystery.
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