In Utero

9 best books like In Utero (Gillian G. Gaar): Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Wilson, Broken Music, Digest, Thrall, Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994, State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts, Patience, How to Be Drawn

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
AuthorJeff Speck
ISBN0374285810
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical...
Wilson
AuthorDaniel Clowes
ISBN1770460071
AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series...
Broken Music
AuthorSting
ISBN0385338651
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as...
AuthorGregory Pardlo
ISBN1935536508
From Epicurus to Sam Cook, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson,...
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN0547571607
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them...
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994
AuthorDavid Hepworth
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.

What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting...
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
AuthorNick Hornby
ISBN0593087348
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New...
Patience
AuthorDaniel Clowes
ISBN1606999052
Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian” and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel...
How to Be Drawn
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0143126881
A dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead

In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes’s background as...
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