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91 книга

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nonfiction + essays I've read

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And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The First Ten Years)

Maria Elena Fernandez

(1)

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every we...

Long Life

Мэри Оливер

(0)

"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Lon...

Ace Voices

Eris Young

(0)

How do we experience attraction? What does love mean to us? When did you realise you were ace? This is the ace community in their own words. Drawing upon interviews wi...

Барбизон. В отеле только девушки

Паулина Брен

3,7

(532)

В «ревущие двадцатые» появилось здание для новых женщин. Дамы хотели того, что уже было у любого мужчины, — жизнь в мегаполисе, свою комнату, уют и покой. Не убираться, не...

Доброе утро, монстр! Хватит ли у тебя смелости вспомнить о своем прошлом?

Кэтрин Гилдинер

4,4

(245)

Лора, Питер, Дэнни, Алана и Мэделин в раннем детстве узнали, что такое настоящий ад. Когда другие дети боялись чудовищ из страшных сказок, их монстры были реальными. Отец,...

Unlikeable Female Characters

Анна Богуцкая

(2)

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Female characters throughout history have been...

End Of The End Of The Earth

Jonathan Franzen

3,7

(220)

A Very Easy Death

Симона де Бовуар

4,1

(119)

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of...

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver

Мэри Оливер

(0)

A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Sophia Bush featuring selections from the late poet’s work, in her own voice...

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Джоан Дидион

(1)

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press...

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

Мелисса Бродер

4,2

(22)

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she beg...

Перед восходом солнца

Михаил Зощенко

4,1

(1,1K)

Автобиографическая книга Михаила Зощенко "Перед восходом солнца", которую автор считал своим главным произведением, создавалась в сороковые годы, но писатель шел к ней едв...

Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom

Dolly Alderton

4,4

(7)

For three years, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth, and wit with the diverse universe of fans who have turned to her “Dear Dolly” column seeking guidance ...

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

3,9

(390)

Didion's husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a co...

My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings

Zosia Mamet

(0)

A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals in our lives, from a spectrum of talented creators What is your most...

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

4,1

(240)

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "aut...

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Джон Грин

4,5

(21)

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapte...

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Хью Лемми, Бен Миллер

2,5

(3)

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities an...

Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

Мэри Оливер

3,8

(2)

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, her most personal book yet "What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And n...

Farther Away

Jonathan Franzen

3,7

(127)

The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching enga...

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