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MY FAVORITE ESSAY COLLECTION OF 2017! Covering topics as varied as Fall Out Boy, racism and police violence, depression, underground hiphop, and beyond, this book is simply brilliant. These ruminations are full of heart, humble, expertly written, and totally engaged with the cultural and political milieu of today. A book to break your heart and give you strength. Of-the-moment, fun, and deep.
This brief essay by the inimitable essayist Mary Ruefle is a profound and witty meditation on the imagination. Invoking history, the Bible, and an unmistakeable wit, Ruefle explains why the imagination is so valuable.
Alaine is now among my favorite heroines. She's whip-smart, humorous, and most powerfully, loving. Told through letters, texts, and journal entries, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine is an intimate look into the life of a young Haitian American girl. Written by Haitian Americans, the Moulite sisters give personal insight into the life of a second-gen American girl, filling their book with empathy, hilarity, and hope.
You may know him from his bestseller A Gentleman In Moscow, but Amor Towles got his literary start with this beautiful, subtle novel about a woman finding her place in the upper echelons of 1930's New York. In crisp, sparkling prose this book will transport you into a world of opulence and witty banter before slowly unveiling the cracks in its facade.
A combination of classic women’s fiction (Think: Jacqueline Susanne’s VALLEY OF THE DOLLS or Mary McCarthy’s THE GROUP), Fiona Davis’s debut novel is a Sundayafternoon pleasure read—that delightful sweet spot between guilty pleasure and social commentary. Okay, maybe that’s just my reading sweet spot, but this one’s a page turner and you really need to grab a copy as soon as possible. I’m a sucker for anything set in New York City, and DOLLHOUSE takes place in New York’s famous Barbizon Hotel for Women. The novel alternates between the 1950s when ‘career women’ and models lived there as they searched for success and husbands and current day when aspiring journalist Rose Lewin, now living in the turned-condo Barbizon, begins to dig into a mystery and scandal and murder concerning some of the hotel’s past residents, a handful of whom still live on the fourth floor in rent controlled apartments. So yeah. Dark secrets. Women constrained by time period and circumstances. And the Barbizon Hotel, which is a real place that once housed many famous women, including actresses Candice Bergen, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, and ill-fated author Sylvia Plath, who stayed there during her stint at Mademoiselle Magazine. I mean, seriously, how can you not pick up this book?
A wickedly funny story set in a world where the board game Scrabble has become one of the biggest sports around. However not everything is sunshine and daisies. The infamous Scrabble Mafia, the "Scraffia," is out there and they are after our main characters.
A must-read for anyone who has "heard of" apartheid but didn't fully grasp it. Shocking, infuriating, and also very fun. How? Because Trevor Noah is that talented with words and timing.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes