Novelist Edan Lepucki has gathered more than 60 essays addressing the question, “Who was my mother before she was a mother?”
I Don’t Want to Die Poor is a candid, humorous study of the hydra-like power of student loan debt and, as a result, the rising cost of freedom.
R. Eric Thomas’ narration provides the perfect tone for sassy asides, making these deeply personal stories even more so.
Pieces focusing on family matters, such as the suicide of Sedaris’ sister Tiffany, can feel wistful, yet the author’s trademark hilarity prevails.
The author’s sparkling wit and lively narrative style make for an all-around upbeat reading experience.
In this wide-ranging collection, Koul writes about interracial romance, internet harassment and the blend of cultures that has informed her identity.
Irby is frank and unfiltered in essays on her troubled childhood, her adventures in dating and sex, and personal connection in the digital age.
The essays in Constellations will make you feel grateful to artists and writers who have transfigured their bodily suffering into a sacred creative release.
Samantha Irby writes stunningly astute, hilarious essays about topics both serious (becoming a stepmother) and less so (her slightly lazy beauty rituals).
Kisner’s essays reflect on Kierkegaard, her early Christian conversion and waiting for the subway to guide us through our own emptiness in search of fullness.
The personal essays collected in Evan James’s I’ve Been Wrong Before dazzle with words and phrases that dance with a lithesome rhythm.
In Conversations in Black, Ed Gordon has assembled a who’s who of black voices in conversation with each other, discussing the world as they see it in 2020.
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman gather dozens of celebrated writers to remember, reflect on, criticize and celebrate a century’s worth of landmark ACLU cases.
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