Appropriate: A Provocation
By: Paisley Rekdal
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the litera…
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. Song
By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more
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- poetry
- read for school
3. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
4. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
- race
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5. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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6. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- 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
7. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
8. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
By: Claire Vaye Watkins
3.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse--one woman's furious revisiting … read more
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- contemporary
9. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
10. Homeland Elegies
By: Ayad Akhtar
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Eleg… read more
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- race
- contemporary
11. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
By: Matthew Salesses
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
12. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
13. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
By: Felicia Rose Chavez
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innov… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- writing
"Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self."-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in tears, because I couldn't yet differentiate …"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiat…"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"Membership necessitates mutual participation. How can we possibly achieve membership when our presence-the feat of occupying space in brown skin-is deemed illegitimate? We're non-people, exploited fo…"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
14. How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
By: Jane Wong
4.21
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma a… read more
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- poetry
15. Information Desk: An Epic
By: Robyn Schiff
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more
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- contemporary
16. Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
By: Beth Pickens
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Artist's Way for the 21st century—from esteemed creative counselor Beth Pickens. If you are an… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
17. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
18. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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- nonfiction
- literary criticism
- essays
- writing
"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
19. Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
By: Charles Baxter
4.31
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House. Charles Bax… read more
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- essays
- writing
20. Appropriate: A Provocation
By: Paisley Rekdal
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the litera… read more
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- race
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- writing
- literary criticism
21. The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2)
By: Keith Rosson
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
No one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call. But in this chilling sequel to Fe… read more
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