10 Best essays books like Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Peter Schjeldahl

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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

By: Peter Schjeldahl

4.41

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group po…

If you liked the essays plot in Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Peter Schjeldahl , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Mating

By: Norman Rush

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more

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2. The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

By: Pema Chödrön

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only e… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust

By: Nathanael West

3.14

Format: 32 pages,

Miss Lonelyhearts Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned… read more

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4. Speedboat

By: Renata Adler

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more

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5. The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

By: Vivian Gornick

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the Cityexp… read more

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6. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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8. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

By: Janet Malcolm

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

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10. Aquí no es Miami

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

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11. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • art
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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12. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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13. Getting Lost

By: Annie Ernaux

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."

-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost

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14. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

By: Leila Philip

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

By: Jon Krakauer

4.14

Format: None pages, ebook

The gripping articles in Classic Krakauer, originally published in periodicals such as The New York… read more

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  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art

By: Michael Shnayerson

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look at the egomaniacs, geniuses, and canny promoters who shaped the world of m… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
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18. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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19. Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

By: Peter Schjeldahl

4.41

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group po… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • photography
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • journalism
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20. Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

By: Jerry Saltz

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readabl… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
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21. The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays

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Claire Dederer

3.79

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3.91

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4.06

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3.81

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