I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
10 best books like I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (Patricia Hampl): I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Southern Lady Code, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Mind's Eye, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, The Haunted Season, There but for the, Things That Are
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
| Author | Nora Ephron |
| ISBN | 0307264556 |
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
| Author | Helen Ellis |
| ISBN | 0385543891 |
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.
Helen Ellis has...
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380713802 |
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost...
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 0143037242 |
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows),...
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individual faces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; how we translate marks...
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374528586 |
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love
All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...
| Author | G.M. Malliet |
| ISBN | 1250021448 |
Max Tudor must contend with his new role as a father as well as a murder all too close to home in Nether Monkslip in the next installment in G. M. Malliet's wildly popular series.
Something sinister is stirring at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the English village of Nether Monkslip. Usually,...
| Author | Ali Smith |
| ISBN | 0241143403 |
There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith. 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by...
| Author | Amy Leach |
| ISBN | 1571313346 |
Things That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodies—considering the similarity of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of...
| Author | Nicole Krauss |
| ISBN | 0385721919 |
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as one of America"s best young writers.
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home,...
