The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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11. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
12. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
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4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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17. Quietly Hostile: Essays
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19. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
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4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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21. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
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Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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