Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered …
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
3. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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- poetry
- essays
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
4. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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- poetry
- true crime
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- mystery
- crime
5. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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6. The Seas
By: Samantha Hunt
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
The narrator of The Seaslives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chamb… read more
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7. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
8. 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
9. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
10. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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11. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
12. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
13. 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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- mystery
"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
14. The Baudelaire Fractal
By: Lisa Robertson
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more
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- poetry
15. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
16. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
18. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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19. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
20. This Wound Is a World
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.49
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
21. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
