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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Thomas King · 172 pages
"In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events fro
The Clothing of Books
Jhumpa Lahiri · 80 pages
When I was a child, expressing myself through clothing was a source of anguish. I dreamt of sameness, even invisibility... When my books were first published, I discovered that another part of me had to be dressed and presented to the world.
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
William Zinsser · 172 pages
Nine authors discuss the problems and pleasures of reinventing the past.
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing
Stephen King · 432 pages
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
Michael Dirda · 246 pages
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, he picked up an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for his most recent book, On Conan Doyle. Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson · 304 pages
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Mary Beard · 320 pages
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy · 331 pages
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Clive James · 896 pages
Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, this book illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twe
Henry Miller on Writing
Henry Miller · 216 pages
Miller's own views on his struggle to perfect his style, his search within himself, his methods in writing, and his ideas on obscenity.
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Lee Child, Alexander McCall Smith, Stephen Hunter, Faye Kellerman, John Lescroart, Jonathan Kellerman, Laura Lippman, David Morrell, Carol O'Connell, Robert B. Parker, Ridley Pearson, Anne Perry, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Ian Rankin, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Robert Crais, Je
Strong Opinions
Vladimir Nabokov · 335 pages
In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.
Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
Tom Bissell · 301 pages
From the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the film documentaries of Werner Herzog, the author of Extra Lives explores the creative process in a series of essays. "In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell plumbs the depths and scales the heights of the creative process. From the set of The Big Bang Theory to one of David Foster Wallace's last works; fr
Writing
Marguerite Duras, Mark Polizzotti
" Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
Jose Ortega y Gasset · 204 pages
The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth
Madeleine L'Engle · 308 pages
The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Open Preview The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth by Madeleine L'Engle 4.13 · Rating details · 585 ratings · 62 reviews We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
bell hooks · 248 pages
"For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Des
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
Norman Mailer · 352 pages
"In The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about the writer's craft. Mailer explores, among other topics, the use of first person versus thir
Bookless in Baghdad and Other Writings on Reading
Shashi Tharoor
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Anne Fadiman · 144 pages
In these eighteen essays, Anne Fadiman "recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language."--Jacket. Ex Libris recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from an