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Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
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Ana Castillo | Black Dove | ‘In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial pro
Carrie Brownstein | Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl | A ‘narrative of [rock guitarist and actor Brownstein’s] escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-inventi
Caroline Paul | Lost Cat | Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn’t get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partne
Sharon O’Brien | Willa Cather | This is the first biography of Willa Cather to explore thoroughly the connections between her artistic and her psychological growth. Sharon O’Brien ma
Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love | Sappho Was a Right-On Woman | A radical change in a little-understood part of society has made this book possible. It is a change that is forcing people to reevaluate their attitud
Zahra Patterson | Chronology | Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, CHRONOLOGY explores the spaces language occ
Doris Faber | The Life of Lorena Hickok: E. R.’s Friend | With this bombshell, paradoxically, the unthinkable becomes a matter for thoughtful contemplation. Lorena Hickok was a heavy-set, heavy-voiced AP repo
