How the Hell Did I Not Know That? is a trivia-filled memoir that follows Lucie Frosts first year after retirement. After quitting her job with an awkward text to her boss, she planned to live out her early retirement fantasy-except she was lost, an...Lasīt vairāk
From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as youve never seen it...Lasīt vairāk
An inspiring memoir that explores natures crucial role in our emotional and mental health, and a poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature (The Marginalian). Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The University Press of Kentucky, ISBN-13: 9781985903098)
Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, and insular woman who had survived abuse and abandonm...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245056)
This book, by the eminent poetry critic Neil Corcoran, examines the ways in which the work of significant modern Irish, British and American poets interacts with or negotiates different contexts historical, social, political, artistic and aesthetic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496856685)
Collected interviews with the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different t...Lasīt vairāk
Through extensive Romance Languages archival and field research, this book challenges eurocentric notions of World Literature to create a Latin-African literary history that interweaves the influential voices of African, Caribbean, and Latinx/Chic...Lasīt vairāk
In An Unstable Container, John LaPine explores the provocative dangers and tantalizing pleasures of corporeality across five deeply personal essays. Resonating with a distinct, lyrical Midwestern sensibility, LaPine s work examine...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Red Hen Press, ISBN-13: 9781636282442)
Chronicles one mans journey out of trauma, PTSD, and depression into a balanced family life informed by life lessons learned through hard-won experience-- The Patient Body: A Personal Narrative in Pieces chronicles one...Lasīt vairāk
A memoir of Shalom Auslanders attempt to escape the biblical story hed been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family....Lasīt vairāk
A Memoir about how Solitude can deepen a life. In his twenties, writer and activist Michael McGregor traveled to the remote Greek island of Patmos to spend two months alone. It was 1985, before cellphones or the internet, when even a phone call home...Lasīt vairāk
From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one womans search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angelesstandalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatet...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593537237)
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowl...Lasīt vairāk
