The essays in Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing are funny, profane and deceptively loose, as if Lauren Hough is talking to you late at night in a quiet bar.
Throughout Spilt Milk, Courtney Zoffness uses layered storytelling to plait her life experiences with larger observations about society.
Jo Ann Beard’s essays shimmer with emotional intensity, especially when evoking the flashes of memory that come on the threshold between life and death.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean gathers 12 previously uncollected short pieces by Joan Didion, the velvet-gloved eviscerator of American culture.
In her riotous collection of essays, the creator and star of the hit TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” tackles one question from every angle: What is normal?
The 25 short essays in The Best American Food Writing 2020 are tackled with humor and consequence, as well as a bit of history mixed in.
This collection of essays showcases the brilliant mind and fascinating range of one of the 20th century’s most important writers.
This is a worthy listen, even if just for the various New York characters who interrupt Zadie Smith’s proper British narration.
Kakutani’s enthusiasm for literature shines through in this stirring tribute to the reading life.
In this compilation of magazine columns, Rick Bragg’s voice is as rich as ever as he finds fresh ways of telling stories both hilarious and poignant.
Like Love is Michele Mrano’s collection of autobiographical essays about romantic relationships that are not quite amorous.
She Come by It Natural is a feminist analysis of not just Dolly Parton’s words but also her physicality and business decisions.
In this penetrating essay collection, 21 writers of color explore the joys and heartbreak of living in the contemporary American South.
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