To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
By: Tim Carpenter
4.01
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality Drawing …
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1. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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- nonfiction
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"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
2. Why People Photograph
By: Robert Adams
3.24
Format: None pages,
Adams, a noted photographer of the American West, dislikes words that describe pictures. In this co… read more
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- photography
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- essays
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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- philosophy
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4. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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5. 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
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6. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
7. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
8. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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9. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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10. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
By: Giles Tremlett
3.66
Format: 32 pages,
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing … read more
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11. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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12. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
13. On Lighthouses
By: Jazmina Barrera
3.88
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
For celebrated writer Jazmina Barrera, humanity’s fascination with the ocean is an invitation to ex… read more
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- essays
"La colección más grande que tengo es la de libros. De niña solía leerlos el mismo día que los compraba. Hasta mi adolescencia, todos los ejemplares que tenía los había leído. Llegó un momento en que …"-Jazmina Barrera, On Lighthouses
14. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. 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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17. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
18. PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice
By: Sasha Wolf
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
How does a photographic project or series evolve? How important are “style” and “genre”? What comes… read more
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19. To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
By: Tim Carpenter
4.01
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality Drawing … read more
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20. Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists
By: Rebecca Bengal
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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21. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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