Picture Cycle
By: Masha Tupitsyn
4.10
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
With her debut collection Beauty Talk & Monsters (2007), Masha Tupitsyn established a new genre of …
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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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"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. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
3. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- essays
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
4. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a l… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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6. Women Who Run With the Wolves
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
4.13
Format: 537 pages, Paperback
Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more
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- nonfiction
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"Failure is a greater teacher than success"-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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8. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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9. Too Much and Not the Mood
By: None
3.89
Format: 266 pages,
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice… read more
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10. Shoplifting from American Apparel
By: Tao Lin
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Set mostly in Manhattan--although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsvill… read more
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11. The History of White People
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of "whiteness"--an illuminating work on the histor… read more
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12. My 1980s and Other Essays
By: Wayne Koestenbaum
5.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essay… read more
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13. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
14. Eileen
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more
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15. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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16. Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It was suddenly chic to be 'targeted' by Andrew...It also became chic to claim a deep personal fri… read more
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17. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.37
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
18. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
19. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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20. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
21. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
22. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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- essays
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
23. 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
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"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.
24. Everybody: A Book About Freedom
By: Olivia Laing
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
25. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
26. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
27. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
28. What Artists Wear
By: Charlie Porter
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more
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29. Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
By: Hito Steyerl
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutio… read more
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- essays
30. Picture Cycle
By: Masha Tupitsyn
4.10
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
With her debut collection Beauty Talk & Monsters (2007), Masha Tupitsyn established a new genre of … read more
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31. Appendix Project: Talks and Essays
By: Kate Zambreno
4.12
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to Book of Mutter. ‘I came up… read more
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