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Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To inherit her late aunt’s villa in the French Riviera, Poppy Banks must finish her novel in six months, forcing her to confront her writer’s block, family drama, complicated romances and self-doubt that threaten to throw her off course" --
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While the common belief is that "body horror" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the "quintessential emblem of female body horror." In A Darker Shade of New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways" -- Page...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she's battling a bad case of writer's block. So when her agent calls her with a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity, Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA. At first, the write-for-hire job seems too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by Didion's own words and informed by those whose lives she shaped, an acclaimed journalist takes us on an illustrated journey through Didion's life, revealing the world as it was seen through the eyes of one of the most revered and influential writers.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s, Anke reveled in headline-grabbing romances with three members of the hugely influential rock band The Midnight Ramblers. Outside of the bandmembers themselves, Anke is the only one who fully understands the tangled relationships, betrayals, and suspicions that has...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth...
7) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of black country cooks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the keeper of her family's stories and treasured dishes, a writer, in this part memoir, part cookbook, weaves those stories together with recipes, family photos and the untold heritage of black Appalachia"--
9) Skeletons
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 74 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn's early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her memoir, Minda casts her gimlet eye on her past relationships and the complicated dynamics of consent culture, gender, sexuality, race, and class. Remembering the promise and disappointments of her twenties with wisdom and compassion, this is Minda’s story of a Black woman coming into herself and changing her own world with resilience and bracing independence" --
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 559 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of works from 140 Latin writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
One World trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...
13) Little Rabbit
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency in Maine, it's not a match. She finds him loud, conceited, domineering. He thinks her serious, guarded, always running away to write. But when he reappears in her life in Boston and invites her to his dance company's performance, she's compelled to attend. Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding her own body's boundaries: She follows...
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