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Teaching a Stone to Talk
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Awards: Annie Dillard was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction in 1975 for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Interviews:
Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard by John Freeman (Literary Hub)
Articles About the Author:
The Annie Dillard Show by Rebecca Thuhus-Dubrow (The Nation)
Additional Essays by Annie Dillard:
Living by Fiction
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Living by Fiction is written for - and dedicated to - people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows how contemporary fiction works and why traditional fiction will always move us. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself. Book jacket.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
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Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book.
The Writing Life
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The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An American Childhood and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek provides a delightful and informative look into her experiences and struggles with her craft.
An American Childhood
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"An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." -- Chicago Tribune A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s. Dedicated to her parents--from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions--Dillard's brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.
Walden
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One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism... "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden stresses the significance of self-reliance, solitude, meditation, and nature in rising above the the life of quiet desperation lived by most people. that, he argues, is the lot of most people. Part autobiography, part manifesto Walden is a moving treatise on the importance distancing oneself from the consumerism of modern Western society and embracing nature in its place.
This Day
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Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it has become increasingly clear that the Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry's work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole for the first time inThis Day, have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry.
Teaching Nonmajors
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Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.
The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs
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Provides evidence for the value of a liberal arts education.
A New Deal for the Humanities
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In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities.
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