A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin
10 best books like A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin (Anaïs Nin): Women of the Left Bank, Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, Joe Gould's Secret, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back, The Last of Cheri, Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, The Treehorn Trilogy: The Shrinking of Treehorn, Treehorn's Treasure, and Treehorn's Wish
| Author | Shari Benstock |
| ISBN | 0292790406 |
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's...
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
| Author | Katha Pollitt |
| ISBN | 1400063329 |
Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of stories drawn from the author's own life.
With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt...
| Author | Joseph Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375708049 |
Now a major motion picture starring Ian Holm, Hope Davis, and Stanley Tucci, who also directs.
Joseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally,...
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0764959476 |
Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer met in the summer of 1968. Gorey had been contracted by Addison-Wesley to illustrate "Donald and the...," a childrens story written by Neumeyer. On their first encounter, Neumeyer managed to dislocate Goreys shoulder when he grabbed his arm to keep him from falling...
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire
| Author | Merri Lisa Johnson |
| ISBN | 1568581807 |
In Jane Sexes It Up, 20 young, progressive feminists reflect on the limitations they think are imposed by establishment feminism on their bodies and their behavior. In these essays, headed up by editor Merri Lisa Johnson’s “Generation X Does the Sex Wars,” the writers confess their seemingly...
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
| Author | Gloria Feldt |
| ISBN | 0553382926 |
Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights.
With the...
| Author | Colette |
| ISBN | 9997498003 |
At the end of Chéri the young Chéri left his aging mistress Léa on the eve of his marriage. Having served in the army during the war Chéri returns to Paris haunted by memories of his carefree youth and the bounty of his benevolent mistress. In the post-war 1920's he finds it impossible to settle down...
| Author | Robert Blanchard |
| ISBN | 1402728425 |
Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, "A Trip to the Beach," sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams. Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, "Live What You Love" is the Blanchard's warm,...
| Author | Sera Beak |
| ISBN | 1622030532 |
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.
With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
| Author | Florence Parry Heide |
| ISBN | 0810959941 |
Long ago I was a young reader growing up in the middle of nowhere (eleven miles from each of the three nearest towns, in fact). I didn't often get to the library, but I had a number of magazines and books thoughtfully delivered by the USPS. One of those magazines, a little digest-sized thing, included The...
| Author | Judy Grahn |
| ISBN | 0884470237 |
It hurts me to see that people aren't reading this any more. These are some of the best poems I know about tough, labor-worn working-class women: waitresses and cleaning women, motorcycle dykes and truck drivers. "She's a copperheaded waitress,/ tired and sharp-worded, she hides/ her bad brown tooth...
| Author | Vicki Noble |
| ISBN | 0062510851 |
For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1617690848 |
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country’s most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration. Tailored to a new generation...
| Author | Keri Smith |
| ISBN | 0399165258 |
What kind of world would you like to inhabit?
To imagine something different, better, or more interesting is to push the existing world into a state of change. Some of the greatest revolutionary acts of our time came to be because someone had the courage to imagine something new.
In...
| Author | Chris Grosso |
| ISBN | 1582704627 |
From a recovering addict, musician, and tattooed indie culturist: a guidebook for today’s generation of spiritual misfits who crave a dogma-free path.
Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso’s collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of...
Feminists Theorize the Political
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415902746 |
At the risk of being caricaturish and simplistic:
The contributors to this volume (edited by the historian and theorist Joan W. Scott and the inimitable Judith Butler) share a broad concern: making coherent a committment to feminsim in the wake of both (a) poststructuralist interventions...
| Author | Eleanor Flexner |
| ISBN | 0674106539 |
Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.
"The book you...
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0805059105 |
With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned early the power of the written word and the importance of speaking her mind. Her passion for words is the heartbeat of this collection of essays. Remembered...
Marriage Confidential: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules
| Author | Pamela Haag |
| ISBN | 0061719285 |
“Inthis timely and thought-provoking analysis of modern coupledom, PamelaHaag& paints a vivid tableau of the ‘semi-happy’ couple. Written withwit and aplomb, this page turner will instigate an insurrection against ourmarital complacency.” —Esther Perel, author of Matingin...
Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
| Author | Yoani Sánchez |
| ISBN | 1935554255 |
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.
Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for...
If you are a fan of Anais Nin and Henry Miller as people (not as authors), then this is the book for you. It contains a selection of Miller's letters towards her, so the only unfortunate thing is you only get his side of the conversation. Do not fear, though - it is beautiful and worth it if only just for that....
| Author | Deirdre Bair |
| ISBN | 0140255257 |
Arguably the world's most famous diarist, Anaïs Nin drew much of her acclaim from her shocking accounts of artistic and sexual self-exploration within the avant-garde worlds of Paris, New York, and Hollywood. But who was this woman whose peccadilloes led to relationships of bigamy and incest, who...
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender
| Author | Gloria Steinem |
| ISBN | 0671510525 |
I found Steinem's writing witty and thought-provoking. I appreciate both her frank honesty and her inclusive generosity. My favorite section BY FAR is "What if Freud were Phyllis?" in which she uses gender reversal as a tool to show how absurd some of his theories (and our current beliefs) are. The middle...
