Essays, Criticism, Memoirs
WILL: A MEMOIR
Written by Self, Will
Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages.
ESSAYS ONE
Written by Davis, Lydia
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as the best prose stylist in America.
JUST US: AN AMERICAN CONVERSATION
Written by Rankine, Claudia
Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another?
UNPACKING MY LIBRARY, OR, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TEDDY
Written by Allen S. Weiss
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STORIES I FORGOT TO TELL YOU
Written by Gallagher, Dorothy
A delicate and darkly witty reflection on loss, marriage, writing, and life in New York from an acclaimed biographer and memoirist. Dorothy Gallagher's husband, Ben Sonnenberg, the author of Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, died more than a decade ago.
MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND
Written by Elliott, Alicia
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial tra
LOVE, KURT: THE VONNEGUT LOVE LETTERS, 1941-1945
Written by Vonnegut, Kurt
A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter "If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind." Kurt Vonnegut's eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother's attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box.
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2020
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon. Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles.
BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2020
A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020.
BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020
"To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series.
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