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The prolific French novelist and memoirist Annie Ernaux opens Simple Passion—a slim autobiographical novel narrating...
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Possums Run Amok
In Possums Run Amok, teenager Lora Lafayette hitchhikes to destinations unknown, striving to quench her...
$16.95
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
A Latin phrase is included in the Great Seal of the United States: “E pluribus...
$25
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
In 2006, Donald Antrim was on the roof of his apartment building, close to suicide....
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Tastes Like War
Here’s the problem with mental illness: what we know about it is far surpassed by...
$17.95
There Was Nothing Left But Gold
Can you think of a place you would never go back to, if you had...
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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
In Blackspace, Anaïs Duplan explores the nature of sociocultural liberation through prose, interview, and poetic...
$18.95
A Ghost in the Throat
Diane Johnson opens her breakthrough biography, The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and...
$14.89
Blind Man’s Bluff
What would you do if you were sixteen and lost most of your eyesight? If,...
$25.95Things Are Against Us
In a recent interview on the NPR show Fresh Air, a ninety-five-year-old Mel Brooks told...
$24.95
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
There is something quite private about annotating a book. Without thought to publication, writing in...
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Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Daniel Sherrell’s epistolary climate memoir, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World,...
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A Harp in the Stars
The term “lyric essay” has been with us for nearly thirty years, and while it...
$24.95
Farm Girl: a Memoir
Megan Baxter’s Farm Girl is more than a memoir of a woman working on a...
$19.95
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Following the multiple-award-winning success of Obit, Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and...
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Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Women have always walked. Walking is in our “molecular memories,” Annabel Abbs insists in her...
$26.95
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson wrote that “biography first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographed.” And,...
$16.95
Names for Light: A Family History
If you can get past the knot of generational descriptors, geographical locations, and time periods,...
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Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
In Graceland, At Last, Margaret Renkl makes the stereotypes of her native country her business....
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The Memory Eaters
Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...
$19.95
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
When Krys Malcolm Belc became pregnant with a son, he began to see his identity—not...
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first essay collection, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and...
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Get Thee to a Bakery
Get Thee to a Bakery opens with the title essay, in which Rick Bailey recounts...
$19.95