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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter is a disquieting read. How could it not be? In it,...
$18.95
Good Girl
Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...
$16.00
Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
As a memoirist, and therefore a character in his own book, Hollars is appealingly capable...
$24.95
Changing the Subject
Birkerts writes particularly insightful essays about the multiple ways ongoing technological changes in our culture...
$16.00
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
As Lauret Savoy traces her own life along with her parents' lives and attempts to...
$25
The Telling
There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...
$14.00
Lingering Bilingualism
Brenner’s work . . . [illustrates] that Hebrew and Yiddish both played complex roles, and...
$29.95
Ladies Night at the Dreamland
The Dreamland is expansive, and you get the sense that Livingston would give every woman...
$24.95
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Her sense of writing exists on a lofty plain—far from self-serving thoughts or motivations. Of...
$16.95Mot: A Memoir
Perhaps more than any other genre, memoir relies upon empathy. The memoir writer invites us...
$24.95
A Different Kind of Same
The book is honest, brave, and soul-baring in its exploration of grief and clinical depression....
$11.11
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Colin Ellard’s wide-ranging and absorbing book is both an exploration of how human beings...
$19.95
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Manguso wisely trains her attention on what persists, claiming space in art for motherhood and...
$20.00
The Argonauts
Although The Arnogauts is listed on several suggested summer reads lists, it should not at...
$23.00
Phoning Home: Essays, Einstein’s Beach House: Stories, and Scouting for the Reaper: Stories
Jacob Appel has been very, very busy. In his early forties, Appel is a lawyer....
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A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic
The impulse to create and solve puzzles is embedded within us, as is a yearning...
$29.95
All Who Go Do Not Return
His memoir reflects this attitude of honest examination. His life is marked by dizzying transformation,...
$16.00
The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
Thorpe, a longtime BBC correspondent, crafts precise, evocative prose and has a reporter’s gift for...
$35.00
I Was Not Born
Whichever way you read this collection, the true nature of the writing, and the story,...
$15.00
Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir
“When you’re not in perfect balance,” Floyd Skloot writes in the introduction to Revertigo: An...
$26.95
You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
In these smart and engaging essays, Shinner challenges us to reconsider our bodies—in particular women’s...
$22.00
Xylotheque: Essays
Renfro’s essays are profoundly moving, written in a rich, deeply felt voice touched with...
$19.95
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Some events are so vast and complicated as to render them ultimately unknowable. ...
$17.00