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Book Cover for: What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home, Sonja Boon

What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home

Sonja Boon
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It's the last of the spring's new interviews on the Assay Interview Project! Today, Emily Smith interviews Sonja Boon about her book WHAT THE OCEANS REMEMBER. Don't miss it! #amreading #amwriting #interview #nonfiction https://t.co/MdZXw9ecok https://t.co/ZpNRhFLbhy

Paperback, 2022

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, David Foster Wallace

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

David Foster Wallace
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Don't miss Ryan McIlvain's treatment of David Foster Wallace in ""You Get to Decide What to Worship but Not What's Good": Rereading 'This Is Water'" from our new fall issue! #amreading #amwriting https://t.co/sW9Ng17iWl https://t.co/0GinewbvEX

Hardcover, 2009

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Dictee

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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We're so happy to bring you Jennifer Lee Tsai's wonderful work from our new spring issue. Her "The Figure of the Diseuse in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee: Language, Breaking Silences and Irigarayan Mysticism" is essential reading. https://t.co/568teks6GA https://t.co/hZF2a9oKiJ

Paperback, 2022

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer
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“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass The editorial team wishes you a Happy #Thanksgiving — and encourages you to reflect on your role in ongoing settler colonialism in North America.

Paperback, 2015

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi
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#QOTD Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and ​Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (Assay 3.2) https://t.co/AQjmfYONak https://t.co/DGgNmKRAFL

Paperback, 2004

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia, Adrian Shirk

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia

Adrian Shirk
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Excited to add a new interview to the Assay Interview Project! Check out Caylin Capra-Thomas' interview with Adrian Shirk about her new book, Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia! https://t.co/Mni59h1j0z https://t.co/TUHXDFJH0u

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: One by One, the Stars: Essays, Ned Stuckey-French

One by One, the Stars: Essays

Ned Stuckey-French
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Robert Root pays tribute to the late, great Ned Stuckey-French and his posthumous book, One by One, the Stars, via "Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing," which we published in our very first issue. We still feel Ned's loss acutely around here. https://t.co/XSjgJBWLi2

Paperback, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Love: Couples I Love I Best Friends I Donuts & Coffee, Publishing Journal

Love: Couples I Love I Best Friends I Donuts & Coffee

Publishing Journal
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Happy Monday, nonfictionists! We’re currently reading for our Fall Issue + beyond. We publishing formally in our journal + informally on our teaching blog. (High + low stakes writing, amirite?) And we’d love to reading your work! To learn more, visit https://t.co/TUk2wsdUYy.

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Book Cover for: A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid

A Small Place

Jamaica Kincaid
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#QOTD Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and ​Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (Assay 3.2) https://t.co/AQjmfYONak https://t.co/DGgNmKRAFL

Paperback, 2000

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Fresh from our new spring issue, Jennifer Case's latest! Check out "Carework in the Creative Nonfiction Classroom: Toward a Trauma-Informed Pedagogy"--essential reading for all creative writing teachers. https://t.co/jr6nZhpnUQ https://t.co/zf7UbOB7iF

Paperback, 2018

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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