Because I Was Flesh

10 best books like Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg): Foucault's Pendulum, Housekeeping, Beyond Good and Evil, The Argonauts, The Waves, Bluets, Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Foucault's Pendulum

Author

Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...

Housekeeping

Author	Marilynne Robinson
ISBN	0312424094

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far...

Beyond Good and Evil

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...

The Argonauts

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1555977073

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 "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of...

The Waves

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	0156949601

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...

Bluets

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...

Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip

Author	Lisa Robertson
ISBN	1552452158

A New York Times Notable Book of 2010

Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin.

Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past — its ideas, its personages, its syntax — to construct...

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Author	Carrie Brownstein
ISBN	1594486638

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.

Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the...

Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts

Author	William H. Gass
ISBN	0307595846

A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
 
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of...

Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Author	Brian Blanchfield
ISBN	1937658457

A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography

Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting,...

We Take Me Apart

Author	Molly Gaudry
ISBN	0983026327

Shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
2nd finalist: 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry

Taught at:
Wesleyan University
Brown University
Cornell College
Queens College, CUNY
New Mexico State University
Mount Mary College

“There...

Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

Author	Norman Lewis
ISBN	0786714387

From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded...