Rape Culture (In the National Interest) by Louise Newman
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The recent revelations and allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the Australian Parliament have prompted furious responses. Political leaders have attempted to limit the damage by referring to the lack of criminal charges, resisting a discussion of entrenched misogyny.Advocates for survivors o ...Show more
All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth
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Category: Essays & Letters
A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse by Elisa Gabbert
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Category: Essays & Letters
A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills. 'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of ...Show more
Booze Territory Short Black 6 by Anna Krien
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Short Blacks
On a Tuesday morning, I make my way to the Gap View Hotel for a drinking session starting at 10 a.m. I'm told this is one of Alice Springs' three notorious 'animal bars' ... As I wander around, a Sudanese security guard approaches me, his face concerned. Am I lost? he wants to know. In a way, I am. I do ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays & Letters
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. ...Show more
Origins of a Story by Jake Grogan
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Category: Essays & Letters
Synopsis coming soon.......
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: near fine
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American ...Show more
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
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Category: Essays & Letters
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more
The Positive Side of the Street: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Lectures by Napoleon Hill
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Category: Essays & Letters
In 1964, Napoleon Hill presented a series of lectures that have never been published--until now. "The subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between a penny and a million dollars. It does not know the difference between success and failure, and it'll work just as hard to make a failure out of ...Show more
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of na ...Show more
Griffith Review 58: The Novella Project V: Storied Lives by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays & Letters
Every life offers a unique story - but there are lives that stand out so distinctly that they leave a mark on the world. How do some people make such a difference?Griffith Review 58- Storied Lives - The Novella Project V focuses on people who have effected change in their world, and in the lives of thos ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more