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 …
Want to Read $ 11.99"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
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1. The Art of Memoir
By: Mary Karr
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Clubspent more than a y… read more
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2. The Boys of My Youth
By: Jo Ann Beard
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the mom… read more
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3. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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4. 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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"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
5. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
6. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
7. 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
8. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
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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"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. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
11. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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12. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
13. 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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"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
14. The Best American Essays 2022
By: Alexander Chee
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more
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15. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
By: Megan Harlan
4.63
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Mobile Home explores the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home as inspired by M… read more
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"A city is a place where interesting always beats beautiful."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"Books mimic adrenaline to the narratively restless: nests of worlds in which the mind takes predestined flights from time and place."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
16. Root Fractures: Poems
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more
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17. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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18. The Story Game
By: Shze-Hui Tjoa
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more
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19. Fare femminismo
By: Giulia Siviero
4.32
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Nella storia dei femminismi, il racconto delle pratiche è spesso rimasto ai margini. Eppure la poli… read more
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20. Le postromantiche. Sui nuovi modi di amare
By: Carolina Bandinelli
3.65
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Amiamo diversamente dal passato, i modi di amare di un tempo non ci rispecchiano più e proviamo a t… read more
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21. The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions … read more
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