American essays -- 21st century

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"This thesis is a collection of essays written in a time the author chose to live in distinct cultures, exploring and contemplating her languages, desires, regrets and the things she cannot forsake. Traveling between the United States and China in the time of Covid19, the author looks into the weight of her choices and longings, where she came from, and where she is going." -- Abstract

Overview "This collection of essays charts the emergence of a searching social consciousness throughout a young woman’s early adulthood. Interweaving the genres of memoir, criticism, and narrative journalism, these seven pieces explore the ad hoc nature of a moral education—from formative encounters with art and literature, to experiences that bring new light to the old maxim, the personal is political. These essays range broadly, taking up feminism's conflicted lessons on the subject of loneliness;...

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"Paper Dolls is a collection of nine personal essays exploring author Catie Joy's emotional and political growth, from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Several linked essays in the collection trace the author's coming of age as a domestic adoptee." --Abstract.

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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

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'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

Overview "The essays in this collection reflect on my experiences in small spaces—from a closet-sized studio apartment, to the passenger seat of my father's car, to a windowless room in an electrolysis treatment center, to a single pew in a church, and more. In these spaces, I explore times when I have felt distant to people who are very close to me and close to people who I have never met. I also question whether places retain the memories of the people who occupied them, and whether this memory can...

Overview "With my essay collection "Smart Girls," I aimed to explore issues that I have personally encountered in my life that I've noticed are not in any way unique to me. I wanted to write openly about what it's like to deal with clinical depression, the loss of a loved one, religious conflict in families, and simply exist as a young woman in the twenty-first century. It was my goal when writing these essays to provide insight especially into navigating one's early- to mid-twenties while suffering...

Overview "Sobering is a collection of personal essays that span the Nineties to present day 2021. It's a conversation about culture, the things that shape us, the biases we come to hold and how we learn (or don't) to let them go. It traverses shame, trauma, addiction, and self-delusion, while navigating the repercussions of a difficult coming-of-age. Essays touch on subjects ranging from a pop culture icon ("of course we had a hand in Britney's suffering"), to an examination of substance abuse and...

Overview "Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers Everyday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing message is that we should...

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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.

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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

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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.

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This thesis is a series of linked nonfiction stories and personal essays in which the author explores her identity through relationship triumphs and relationship mishaps. The author gives an arrangement of long songs gone wrong, saturated with the author'

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"Tongue-Tied is a collection of seven linked essays that explore the writer's experiences with generalized anxiety disorder and major depression." --Abstract.

Overview "Trannifesto is an creative nonfiction essay collection which focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, mental illness, and belonging. These essays range to the extent which they discuss each of these issues: some focus more on gender identity, while others focus more on mental illness. However, tying them all together is the theme that, no matter how marginalized or alienated a person may feel, connection with those around them is always possible -- and, this connection is vital and necessary...

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My goal with this essay collection is to evaluate what is lost and, therefore, gained when individual and social assumptions and definitions of language, experiences, and healing processes are challenged, reevaluated, and reconstructed.--Abstract.

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Memoir-based essay collection chronicling the life experiences and wealth of lessons learned over the course of Lea McLellan's twenty-four years of life on earth.--Abstract.

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Would you eat a hamburger that was grown in a test tube? Do robots make good cuddle buddies? [...] We ask and answer these and other similar questions every day, but rarely do we give them the time they deserve....These essays invite readers to consider t