8 Top short stories books like Film for Her by Orion Carloto

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Film for Her

By: Orion Carloto

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her…

"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."

-Orion Carloto, Film for Her

"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."

-Orion Carloto, Film for Her

If you liked the short stories plot in Film for Her by Orion Carloto , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Play It As It Lays

By: Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • feminism
  • contemporary
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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2. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's The White Album book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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3. The Virgin Suicides

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • contemporary
"She was the still point in the turning world."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."

-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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4. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's Ariel book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • feminism
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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5. Sex and Rage

By: Eve Babitz

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • feminism
  • contemporary

6. The Coral Sea

By: Patti Smith

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

In linked pieces Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who i… read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's The Coral Sea book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt

8. Black Swans

By: Eve Babitz

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Black Swans book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • contemporary
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9. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • feminism
  • short stories
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10. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • art
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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11. It

By: Alexa Chung

3.34

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In It, her first book, the global fashion-trendsetter Alexa Chung shares her own very personal insp… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Chung's It book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • contemporary
"Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying int…"

-Alexa Chung, It

"DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and sin…"

-Alexa Chung, It

"The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not …"

-Alexa Chung, It

"I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a…"

-Alexa Chung, It

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12. The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • feminism
"I woke to the sound of rain."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

13. Devotion

By: Patti Smith

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's Devotion book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

14. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

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15. Homesick for Another World

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.62

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Otte… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • short stories
  • contemporary
"It's a lonely life."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Nothing made me happy."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Be careful with women,"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

16. Girl, Interrupted

By: Susanna Kaysen

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more

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17. M Train

By: Patti Smith

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's M Train book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."

-Patti Smith, M Train

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18. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's Just Kids book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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19. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

Similar categories in Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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21. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • short stories
  • contemporary
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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22. My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.63

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • contemporary
"What next? I couldn't imagine."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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23. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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24. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's A Book of Days book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • art
  • memoir
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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25. On Sun Swallowing

By: Dakota Warren

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more

Similar categories in Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • contemporary
"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"

-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing

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26. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

By: Halsey

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling … read more

Similar categories in Halsey's I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early."

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

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27. Film for Her

By: Orion Carloto

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her… read more

Similar categories in Orion Carloto's Film for Her book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
  • art
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • photography
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."

-Orion Carloto, Film for Her

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28. Archive

By: Sofia Coppola

4.84

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential c… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Coppola's Archive book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. Cult of Two (Volume 5) (Michael Faudet)

By: Michael Faudet

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Michael Faudet’s latest book delves deeper into the meaning of love, the intricacy of relationships… read more

Similar categories in Michael Faudet's Cult of Two (Volume 5) (Michael Faudet) book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
"Just when I thought my life was going in the right direction—disappointment was waiting around the corner."

-Michael Faudet, Cult of Two (Volume 5) (Michael Faudet)

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30. Bad At Existing: Poems

By: Madisen Kuhn

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

“Madisen’s poetry is thoughtful and makes one feel seen and heard. I can’t wait for readers to dive… read more

Similar categories in Madisen Kuhn's Bad At Existing: Poems book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • poetry
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31. Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

By: Sherman Kennon

4.35

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and … read more

Similar categories in Sherman Kennon's Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance book and Orion Carloto's Film for Her

  • contemporary
"Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,"

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Still I chase the wind and float as a gentle breeze up among the stars then descending as a bird down amidst the trees."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

17 must-read contemporary books like Film for Her by Orion Carloto

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

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Eve Babitz

3.87

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Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

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