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Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, An Essay Collection from Noted Humorist David Sedaris

On April 18, 2013, in Book Reviews, Entertainment, Essays, Nonfiction, Travel, by Editor

From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler’s experiences.

Outside the Wire: American Soldiers’ Voices from Afghanistan by Christine Dumaine Leche

On April 8, 2013, in Book Reviews, Essays, History, Military, Nonfiction, by Editor

A riveting collection of thirty-eight narratives by American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, Outside the Wire offers a powerful evocation of everyday life in a war zone. We each, writes Leche, require witnesses to the narratives of our lives. Outside the Wire creates that opportunity for us as readers to bear witness to the men and women who carry the weight of war for us all.

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, an Unconventional Faith Memoir by Christian Wiman

On March 30, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, Religious Studies, by Editor

My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition—might look like.

Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self – An Essay on East and West by Gish Jen

On March 22, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders’ Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West.

Here and Now: An Exchange of Letters Between Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee

On March 11, 2013, in Art & Literature, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

Here and Now is the result of that proposal: the epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, family, marriage, friendship, and love.

An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History Through Autobiographical Essays by Cynthia Zarin

On March 3, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip Lopate

On March 2, 2013, in Art & Literature, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone and immense gift for storytelling, To Show and To Tell reads like a long walk with a favorite professor—refreshing, insightful, and encouraging in often unexpected ways.

How Literature Saved My Life, A Collage That Enables Introspection by David Shields

On February 4, 2013, in Art & Literature, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, and painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature. A captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original way of thinking about the essential acts of reading and writing.

Always Looking: Final Essays on Mostly Modern Art by John Updike

On January 28, 2013, in Art & Photography, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

John Updike was a gallery-goer of genius. Always Looking is, like everything else he wrote, an invitation to look, to see, to apprehend the visual world through the eyes of a connoisseur.

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle

On January 12, 2013, in Art & Literature, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include “Poetry and the Moon,” “Someone Reading A Book Is A Sign Of Order In The World,” and “Lectures I Will Never Give.”

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