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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorVamps & Tramps: New Essays
Camille Paglia · 532 pages
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer · 336 pages
Amy Schumer, Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star, mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationship, and sex, and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is--a woman with the courage to bare her soul and stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this h
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino · 303 pages
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay · 360 pages
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once l
I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
Luvvie Ajayi · 241 pages
"With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. I'm Judging You is her debut book of humorous essays that dissects our cultural obsessions and calls out bad behavior in our increasingly digital, connected lives--from the importance of the newest Shonda Rhimes television drama to serious discussio
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson · 285 pages
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson. Being a Black woman in American means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart.
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It
Catherynne M. Valente, Sophie Aldred, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Carole E. Barrowman, Seanan McGuire, Jody Lynn Nye, Kate Orman, Lloyd Rose, Lisa Bowerman, Johanna Mead, India Fisher, Jackie Jenkins, Christa Dickson, Deborah Stanish, Helen Kang, Francesca Coppa, Jennifer Adams Kelley, Tam · 186 pages
A host of award-winning female novelists, academics and actresses come together to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, discuss their rather inventive involvement with the show's fandom, and examine why they adore this series so much.
Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling · 240 pages
Hollywood starlet Mindy Kaling shares her ongoing, laugh-out-loud journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 426 pages
Verhandeling over de stelling dat onafhankelijke, eigenzinnige vrouwen veel boeiender zijn dan brave, volgzame types en dat de maatschappij op hun gedrag veel negatiever reageert dan op vergelijkbaar gedrag van mannen.
BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler · 386 pages
Offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from Bitch magazine's first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for this collection.
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Dunham · 287 pages
"If I could take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine was worthwhile. I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you, but also my future glory in having stopped you from trying an expens
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
Hadley Freeman · 345 pages
Dirty Dancing nos enseñó que, sí, las mujeres abortan. La princesa prometida nos enseñó que el amor verdadero no es un cuento de hadas. Cazafantasmas nos enseñó que la amistad masculina no tiene por qué ser inmadura. Todo en un día nos enseñó que siempre habrá clases sociales. No sabíamos que las películas que nos cambiaron la vida también nos estaban preparando para las luchas de hoy. Un ensayo r
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Jonathan Lethem · 437 pages
A career-spanning anthology of writings incorporates several new essays and includes numerous celebrity portraits as well as the author's musings on topics ranging from sex in cinema and drugs to cyberculture and graffiti.
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith · 306 pages
A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness th
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag · 304 pages
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace · 353 pages
A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories -- which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere -- explore intensely immediate states of mind, with the attention to voice and the extraordinary creative daring that have won Wallace his reputation as one of the most talented fiction writer of his generation.Amo
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West · 272 pages
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jo
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Holly Black, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link
Contains: Introduction by Cassandra Clare Unhomely Places by Kate Milford The Art of War by Sarah Cross Sharper Than a Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund When Laws Are Made to Be Broken by Robin Wasserman Simon Lewis: Jewish, Vampire, Hero by Michelle Hodkin Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake Asking for a Friend by Gwenda Bond (Not) Fo
Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature
Dorothy Allison · 262 pages
"In this compelling collection of essays and autobiographical narratives, the author probes her experience of being a lifelong feminist activist, a controversial sex radical, and an expatriate Southern writer with an attitude. Winner of the 1995 Lambda Literary Award (Lesbian Studies) and the 1995 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award."--BOOK JACKET.
White Girls
Hilton Als · 304 pages
White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women 16 years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls,” as Als dubs them, an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as d
Bossypants
Tina Fey · 277 pages
Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funnie
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Neil Gaiman · 546 pages
"An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that inform
I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron · 167 pages
Hilarious New York Times No.1 bestseller about growing older in Grumpy Old Women vein, by creator of When Harry Met Sally.Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) turns her sharp wit on to her own life.* Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from*If the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's