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Curated by Cheryl Strayed, this collection features an array of exceptional writing and insightful essays, showcasing diverse voices and perspectives. As a New York Times best-selling author, Strayed's introduction adds depth to this treasure trove, inviting readers to explore the themes of human experience and emotion woven throughout the pieces.

The volume showcases a remarkable collection of essays curated by Jamison, featuring a diverse range of essayists. Each piece presents challenging and thought-provoking perspectives, blending passion with clever insights, making for a sobering yet engaging read.

Drawing on the metaphor of surfing, Ariel Levy highlights the skill and audacity required to write compelling essays. This collection features a diverse array of voices tackling personal and poignant themes, such as overcoming an abusive marriage, reflecting on lost youth, grappling with obsession, and bidding farewell to cherished possessions. Each piece showcases the writers' courage in exploring meaningful insights, making the anthology a rich tapestry of emotional and thought-provoking narratives.

Examines the interaction between style of writing and the intended reading audience in advertising, the press, magazines, bestsellers, classic writings, and scripts, from 1492 to the present. Includes ads for/by Modart, Listerine, Tiparillo, NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund, Mary Ann Restivo, Wrangler, U.S. Army, National Women's Political Caucus, Nike, American Express Company, White Owl, Charles Atlas, Joe Weider, Future Homemakers of America, Paco Rabanne, Aramis, Calvin Klein, Oaktree, Resinol Soap, Book of Etiquette, Symphony Press, LifeStyles, International Paper Company, San Francisco Black Coalition on AIDS, Neutrogena, Willys-Overland, Ford Closed Cars, Volkswagen, Oldsmobile Tornado, Mazda, Saturn, Suzuki, Wolfschmidt's Vodka, Ballantine Ale, Schrafft's, Coca-Cola, McCormick/Schilling, Campari, Burger King, McDonald's, Great Books, Seventeen, Eyewitness News, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, SONY, Mitsubishi, Army National Guard, United Negro College Fund, Distilled Spirits Council, Tobacco Institute, Bell System, National Rifle Association, Handgun Control, Rockwell International, Adelphi University, Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness. Includes writings by Marianne Moore, David Ogilvy, Patricia Volk, Neil Postman, Teresa Riordan, Michael Specter, David Beers, Catherine Capellaro, Stephen Crane, Francis Pharcellus Church, Heywood Broun, Jack Lait, George M. Mahawinney, Dorothy Thompson, Langston Hughes, William L. Laurence, Tom Wicker, Thomas O'Toole, Vivian Gornick, Mike Royko, Susan Jacoby, Jimmy Breslin, Debbie McKinney, Diana Griego Erwin, Samuel Francis, David Von Drehle, Michael Ventura, Anna Quindlen, Scott Higham, Ancil Davis, Tottie Ellis, Mona Charen, Juan Williams, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Mills, Teri Maddox, Laura Parker, Luther Campbell, Russell Baker, Ann Powers, Nina Schuyler, George Lakoff, David G. Savage, Maureen Dowd, Patrick O'Connell, Jeffrey Hart, Karen Jurgensen, Paul Hemphill, Jack London, William Hand, Peter Homans, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Gretel Ehrlich, Stephen King, Bob Greene, Lance Morrow, Jerry Adler, Martin Gottfried, Sallie Tisdale, Randy Shilts, Ann Hodgman, Elizabeth F. Brown, William R. Hendee, Sidney Hook, Ishmael Reed, Josh Ozersky, John Updike, Robert Hughes, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, P.T. Barnum, Ernest L. Thayer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dale Carnegie, Wilfred Funk, Norman Lewis, Ogden Nash, Mickey Spillane, Grace Metalious, Vance Packard, Mario Puzo, Alex Haley, Benjamin Spock, Ron Kovic, William Least Heat Moon, Letitia Baldridge, Garrison Keillor, Barry Lopez, Allan Bloom, Amy Tan, Susan Faludi, Christopher Columbus, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, Raymond Carver, Lewis Thomas, Annie Dillard, Eudora Welty, June Jordan, Orson Welles, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Dick Orkin and Bert Berdis, Robert Geller, Richard B. Eckhaus, and Matt Williams

This abridged one-volume edition collects poetry from the original two volumes of Chapters into Verse to survey the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present.

For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is "an outstanding, galvanic collection" (Entertainment Weekly).

Now in its twentieth year, this "consistently refined and lively series" (Booklist)still highlights "the best that the form can be" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Editedby the best-selling writer Susan Orlean, this year"s collection highlights lively and provocative writing for these difficult times. Contributors include Roger Angell, Andrea Barrett, David Sedaris, Holly Welker, and others.

The Language of Spring  collects some thirty of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring. The poems range from the traditional and formal (Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "Spring" and Edna St. Vincent Millay"s "English Sparrows") to the contemporary, experimental, and diverse (Henry Reed"s "Naming of Parts," Marie Ponsot"s "Mauve," and William Carlos Williams"s "The Widow"s Lament in Springtime"). Each poem beautifully illuminates another small spot of time in the enthralling season of renewal. Other contributors Maxine Kumin (the volume"s title is adapted from her poem), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Richard Wright, John Updike, Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, Jane Kenyon, Sara Teasdale, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, James Tate, and A. R. Ammons.