Emerson College

The early twenties are a coming-of-age for many young people, as they finish their transition from adolescence into adulthood. Comprehensive Guide features five short essays depicting my quest to reorient my worldview in light of coming out as a lesbian--

This essay collection explores the meaning of death and burial in Western culture in order to ask the ultimate question: What does it mean to live? From Paris to Egypt to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the collection offers a whirlwind cemetery tour and invest

Teaching is a whirlwind each day, and the purpose of these essays is to share the challenges and joys of working in a classroom, functioning as a team, communicating with children and parents, and sometimes coming up short. Some of the pieces in this essa

This collection of essays is about the human experience of growing up. It's also about the eyes-good ones, bad ones, lost ones, new ones, eyes to see, eyes to understand, eyes to forgive, and eyes to marvel. -- abstract.

For a Muse of Fire is a series of six personal essays concerning the shape of small things in the 21st century. -- abstract.

A collection of humorous essays centered on one person's sense of home. -- abstract.

Last Games traces the experiences of a twenty-six year old former college basketball player who has spent his early twenties adjusting to the loss of identity that takes place after his career ends. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island the game had been

This is a collection of personal essays dealing with such topics as the search for transcendence, the nature of friendship, misperception, teaching, solitude/loneliness and humility. -- abstract.

I offer this invitation into the richly weird cacophonous wrangling in the arena of my mind. I hope you accept. Demur not at the strange, but at the obsequious, insidious commplace; there we begin to essay.--Abstract.

A collection of personal essays that touches on the subjects of relationships, self-injury, disease, and overcoming one's fears. In each instance the author must realize or learn to accept something about herself in order to move past the obstacle standin

Prairie Passages is a narrative study of small town culture in South Dakota, told through Karl Wirsing's experiences as a community newswriter with The Pioneer Review and his summers on his family's farm near Gregory, South Dakota (population 1,342). Wirs

First half of a collection of essays that will address questions of homeland, nationalism, traveling, and cosmopolitanism among others.--Abstract.

This collection of linked nonfiction essays explores relationships between parent and child, and between family and non-family, as the author moves from a relatively uneventful childhood to an adolescence fraught with domestic strife and financial disaste

'Seismic Shifts' explores the phase of life 'The New York Times' recently termed, 'The Odyssey Years,' a period sandwiched between adolescence and adulthood. This collection of essays delves into the complexities of being a 20-something in 21st century A

Swimming in Time is a series of personal essays that might be called a meta-memoir. Each essay takes one or more event, peels back the layers of memory until it uncovers a core truth, and then reconstructs the event with that truth in mind--but not always

The following selected essays are an account of the semester I spent studying abroad in India. Part memoir, part travel narrative, these essays range in content from the story of a trek up the side of a mountain and what was at the top, the recollection o

That Kind of girl is a collection of linked nonfiction essays that chart my development from a shyly creative little girl to a seemingly fearless woman trying to take the world by storm.

This collection of eight memoir pieces centers on the theme of a single woman navigating her thirties. 'Of Love and Language' describes how my love affair with a deaf man made me miss my own language. 'Conjugating Oaxaca' illustrates how a trip to study S

The line for the women's room is full of stories. In any given department store, coffee shop, or highway rest stop, a woman might walk in on a conversation about a sultry romance, lazy husband, glamorous job, or simply unexplained tears. Although these pe

Collection of short essays that look back at the events of a young woman's life in an experimental, creative way through the use of a feministic voice.--Abstract.