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Like it is: a lively selection of contemporary essays [by] Jean Wilkinson [and] Muriel Blatt.

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San Francisco, Canfield Press [1970]

1970

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 70-273Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Black American literature: essays, edited by Darwin T. Turner.

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Columbus, Ohio, C. E. Merrill Pub. Co. [1969]

1969

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FormatTextCall numberSc 323.173-T (Turner, D. T. Black American literature)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Six in the Easy chair.

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Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1973]

1973-1851

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Equality of educational opportunity: content analysis of six selected Negro authors, 1960-1970.

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Los Angeles 1974.

1974

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-2510Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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American essay serials from Franklin to Irving / by Bruce Granger. 1st ed.

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Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1978.

1978

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 78-8500Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Word and beyond : four literary cosmologists / Dick Higgins ... [et al.].

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New York : Smith, 1982.

1982

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Magazine essays of today, edited by Elias Lieberman.

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New York, Prentice-Hall, 1935.

1935

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FormatTextCall numberJFC 83-1349Item locationOffsite

The Penguin book of contemporary American essays / Maureen Howard, editor.

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New York, NY : Viking, 1984.

1984

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The Best of Rob Wagner's Script / edited by Anthony Slide.

Text

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1985.

1985

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FormatTextCall numberMFL 85-3121Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Krisenbewusstsein und Kunstanspruch : Roman und Essay in den USA seit 1945 / Heinz Wüstenhagen.

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Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1981.

1981

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 86-8270Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Student writers at work : the Bedford prizes. Second series / edited by Nancy Sommers & Donald McQuade.

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New York : St. Martin's Press, c1986.

1986

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 86-2488Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American essays / edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini.

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Hanover, NH : Published for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College by University Press of New England, c1989.

1989

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 89-2034Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Literary nonfiction : theory, criticism, pedagogy / edited by Chris Anderson.

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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989.

1989

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 89-4863Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Ruminations : The ideal American lady and other essays [microform] / by Paul Siegvolk.

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New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893.

1893

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FormatTextCall number*Z-5197 Reel 2, no . 12-23Item locationOffsite
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Essays of three decades; edited by Arno L. Bader and Carlton F. Wells.

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New York, Harper [1939]

1939

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 89-3273Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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In depth : essayists for our time / Carl H. Klaus, Chris Anderson, Rebecca Blevins Faery.

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San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1990.

1990

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 90-5006Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The essay in American literature, by Adaline May Conway.

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New York, N. Y., The Faculty of the Graduate School New York University, 1914.

1914

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FormatTextCall numberNBP (Conway, A. M. Essay in american literatue)Item locationOffsite
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The Best American essays.

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New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1986-

1986-present

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Literary opinion in America; essays illustrating the status, methods, and problems of criticism in the United States in the twentieth century.

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New York, Harper [1951]

1951

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 89-403Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The essay : a critical anthology / edited by John L. Stewart.

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New York : Prentice-Hall, 1952.

1952

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FormatTextCall numberJFC 90-2869Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Oxford book of essays / chosen and edited by John Gross.

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Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

1991

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FormatTextCall number*R-RMRR PR1363 .O9 1991Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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Types and times in the essay, selected and arranged by Warner Taylor.

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New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1932.

1932

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 91-5707Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Roots and branches : contemporary essays by West Coast writers / edited by Howard Junker ; collected from Zyzzyva; a quarterly of West coast writers & artists.

Text

San Francisco : Mercury House, c1991.

1991

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 91-8821Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The radical imagination; an anthology from Dissent Magazine, edited by Irving Howe. Introd. by Michael Harrington.

Text

[New York], New American Library [1967]

1967

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FormatTextCall numberSc 041-D (Dissent. Radical imagination)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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From a Black perspective; contemporary Black essays, edited by Douglas A. Hughes.

Text

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1970]

1970

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FormatTextCall numberSc 323.173-H (Hughes, D. From a Black perspective)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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For our time; 24 essays by 8 contemporary Americans.

Text

New York, Dodd, Mead, [c1970]

1970

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FormatTextCall numberSc 309.173-G (Gross, B. R. For our time)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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InVersions : writing by dykes, queers & lesbians / edited by Betsy Warland.

Text

Vancouver : Press Gang Publishers, 1991.

1991

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 92-12800Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The open form : essays for our time / [edited by] Alfred Kazin.

Text

New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, c1961.

1961

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FormatTextCall numberBerg Coll 92-420Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Reading for writing, selected and edited by Ivan E. Taylor and J. Saunders Redding.

Text

New York, Ronald Press Co. [c1952]

1952

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FormatTextCall numberSc 808.8-T (Taylor, I. Reading for writing)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Viewpoints from Black America. Edited by Gladys J. Curry.

Text

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [c1970]

1970

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FormatTextCall numberSc 808.042-C (Curry, G. Viewpoints from Black America)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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First person singular: essays for the sixties, edited and with an introd. by Herbert Gold.

Text

New York, Dial Press [c1963]

1963

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 814.08-G (Gold, H. First person singular)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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America at random, from the New York times' oldest editorial feature, "Topics of the Times," a century of comment on America and Americans. Edited, with an introd. on The journalistic essay, by Herbert Mitgang.

Text

New York, Coward-McCann [c1969]

1969

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FormatTextCall numberSc 814.08-M (Mitgang, H. America at random)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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They also wrote for the fan magazines : film articles by literary giants from E. E. Cummings to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1920-1939 / compiled and edited by Anthony Slide.

Text

Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Co., 1992.

1992

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FormatTextCall numberMFL 93-1680Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Speech & power : the African-American essay and its cultural content from polemics to pulpit / edited by Gerald Early.

Text

New York : Ecco Press, c1992-

1992-present

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 93-808 v. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Mapping the invisible landscape : folklore, writing, and the sense of place / by Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Text

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1993.

1993

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 93-9441Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The man in the water : essays and stories / Roger Rosenblatt.

Text

New York : Random House, c1994.

1994

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 94-4374 ---Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Old songs in a new café / selected essays by Robert James Waller.

Text

New York : Warner Books, c1994.

1994

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 94-10151Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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A century of the Catholic essay, edited, with biographical notes, by Raphael H. Gross...

Text

Philadelphia, New York J.B. Lippincott company [1946]

1946

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 94-10671Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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El Sarape.

Text

Las Cruces, N.M. : Night Jar Press, c1984-

1984-present

5 items

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FormatTextCall numberJFL 87-526 v. 9-10Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberJFL 87-526 v. 7-8Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberJFL 87-526 v. 5-6Item locationOffsite

Resist! : essays against a homophobic culture / edited by Mona Oikawa, Dionne Falconer and Ann Decter.

Text

Toronto : Women's Press, 1994.

1994

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 95-5129Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Too soon to tell / Calvin Trillin.

Text

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995.

1995

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 95-19062Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Piecework : writings on men and women, fools and heroes, lost cities, vanished friends, small pleasures, large calamities, and how the weather was / Pete Hamill.

Text

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, c1996.

1996

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 96-2989Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The Beacon book of essays by contemporary American women / edited by Wendy Martin ; with the editorial assistance of Thomas Allen ... [et al.].

Text

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1996.

1996

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 96-3467Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Recollections / by George W. Childs.

Text

Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company, 1892.

1892

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FormatTextCall numberAN (Childs) (Childs, G. W. Recollections. 1892)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Autobiography of B. F. ... with his essays and will.

Text

New York, Arundel Print [n.d.]

1881

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FormatTextCall numberAN (Franklin) (Franklin, B. Autobiography of B. F.)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Memoirs and select papers of H.B. Morse, A.B. of Haverhill, N.H. [Edited] by C. Burroughs.

Text

Portsmouth, N.H., Miller & Brewster, 1829.

1829

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FormatTextCall numberAN (Morse) (Morse, H. B. Memoirs and select papers)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Fuori : essays by Italian/American lesbians and gays / Tommi Avicolli Mecca ... [et al.] ; introduction by Mary Jo Bona ; edited by Anthony Julian Tamburri.

Text

West Lafayette, IN : Bordighera, c1996.

1996

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 96-16862Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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American expression on the war and the peace, edited by Annie Laurie Mohair and Doris Benardete ...

Text

New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Company [1943]

1943

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FormatTextCall numberBZAC (Mohair, A. L. American expression on the war)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The devil problem : and other true stories / David Remnick.

Text

New York : Random House, c1996.

1996

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 96-21656Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Writer & persona; character into prose, edited by Charles Sanders, Robin R. Rice [and] Watt J. Cantillon.

Text

New York, McGraw-Hill [1970]

1970

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 96-15651Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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