Broke Heart Blues
9 best books like Broke Heart Blues (Joyce Carol Oates): Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays, A Dangerous Place, Elegy for Iris, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, Fabulous Small Jews, The Norton Book of Personal Essays
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Soraya Chemaly |
| ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
| Author | Bassey Ikpi |
| ISBN | 0062894781 |
A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences navigating Bipolar II and anxiety throughout the course of her life.
Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother joined her father in Stillwater, Oklahoma...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062220551 |
Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger
Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love,...
| Author | John Bayley |
| ISBN | 0312421117 |
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral...
| Author | John Bayley |
| ISBN | 0715628488 |
It is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Maybe this is because it is about the great novelist Iris. It is so beautifully written. One could almost feel the lived life of the couple, and notice that Bayley has shown immense love, reserve, and kindness toward his beloved.
It...
The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
| Author | Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1406531537 |
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College and Harvard University. He was noted for compiling and editing an annual collection of The Best Short Stories by American authors...
| Author | Joseph Epstein |
| ISBN | 0618446583 |
In Fabulous Small Jews, the best-selling author Joseph Epstein has produced eighteen charming, magical, and finely detailed stories. They are populated by lawyers, professors, scrap-iron dealers, dry cleaners, all men of a certain age who feel themselves adrift in the radically changed values...
The Norton Book of Personal Essays
| Author | Joseph Epstein |
| ISBN | 0393036545 |
In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, andabove allvarious opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations...
