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Available for the first time, these letters of one of America's most beloved authors are a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal...
With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known...
Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance...
"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." — Milwaukee Sentinel
"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend." —New York Times Book Review
In this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Literary Hub, a Most Anticipated Book of the Winter by The Millions, and a Best Book of the Month by Kirkus Reviews
"I have never read a book quite like this . . . Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written." ―Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or
A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude,
“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read” (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who “calls to mind a young Audre Lorde” (Kirkus)
Why do some women struggle to identify as...
Beginning with the author’s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin’s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients—as well as her musings over the challenges facing the artist in the modern world. The diary of this remarkably daring...
15) Living Out Loud
“The lightning bugs are back. They are small right now, babies really, flying low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green...
The big 4-0. Like eighteen and twenty-one, this is a major and meaningful milestone our lives—especially...
This candid volume from the renowned diarist covers her years of struggle, and eventual triumph, as an author in America during World War II.
“Transcending mere self-revelation . . . the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding...
The companion to the classic anthology Daughters of Africa—a major international collection that brings together the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, celebrating their artistry and showcasing their contributions to modern literature and international culture.
Contributors include:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Yrsa Daley Ward
• Edwidge Danticat • Phillippa Yrsa De
19) Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writers Week
"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality. . . ."
Words Are My Matter collects talks, essays, introductions to beloved books,
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