In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays

5 best books like In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays (Katie Roiphe): 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice, I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Author	Elif Shafak
ISBN	0241293863

An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were...

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Author	Emily Nussbaum
ISBN	0525508961

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0525656340

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert...

21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice

Author	Carol Horton
ISBN	0615617603

Yoga may be rooted in ancient India, but it’s morphed into something new in North America today.

Precisely what that might be, however, is difficult to say. Yoga is taught everywhere from spas to prisons, and foreverything from weight loss to spiritual transcendence. With its chameleon-like...

I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana

Author	Nick Soulsby
ISBN	1250061520

I Found My Friends re-creates the story of Nirvana, from its earliest days in 1987 to its sudden end seven years later, through the words of the musicians and producers who played and interacted with the band. Soulsby interviewed over 200 musicians from bands that played and toured with Nirvana, including...