Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
10 best books like Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors (Franz Kafka): Orange World and Other Stories, Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R., Waiting for God, The Wild Iris, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, Thirst, History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, Certain Magical Acts, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
| Author | Julie Holland |
| ISBN | 0553807668 |
I don't usually take the time to write a review, but as a psychology major and a human being, I was very disappointed by the actions of Julie Holland as she recounts them in this memoir.
The stories of patients in the ER were often interesting, but I was consistently bothered by how politically...
| Author | Simone Weil |
| ISBN | 0060959703 |
"My dear father, I have made up my mind to write to you....I have been wondering lately about the will of God, what it means, and how we can reach the point of conforming ourselves to it completely I will tell you what I think about this." SIMONE WEIL, LETTER I, WAITING FOR GOD
Emerging from the thought-provoking...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0880013346 |
I had a Creative Writing teacher who asked me once if I would like anyone other than myself to read my poetry. When I answered, “Yes,” she advised me to make the suffering in my poems more universal and less personal.
Poetry is obviously personal, but she explained to me that, if I had a husband...
Complete Poems, 1904-1962
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871401525 |
At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068969 |
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life and partner of over forty years, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook, she strives to experience...
| Author | Jill Bialosky |
| ISBN | 1439101930 |
“It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.” —Kim’s journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky’s twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued with her...
| Author | Paul Hoover |
| ISBN | 0393310906 |
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
| Author | Alice Notley |
| ISBN | 0143108166 |
An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness....
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
| Author | Maia Szalavitz |
| ISBN | 1250055822 |
More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas,...
Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating
| Author | Ann Saffi Biasetti |
| ISBN | 1611806089 |
A step-by-step holistic approach to recovering fully from disordered eating, using self-compassion and embodiment practices to reduce symptoms, increase body awareness and acceptance, reconnect to others, and step back into an integrated life.
Those who struggle with disordered eating...
The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
| Author | Piero Ferrucci |
| ISBN | 1585425885 |
"A book after my own heart!"--His Holiness The Dalai Lama
The Power of Kindness is a stirring examination of a simple but profound concept. Piero Ferrucci, one of the world's most respected transpersonal psychologists, explores the many surprising facets of kindness and argues that it is this...
