Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
10 best books like Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (Lisa Robertson): Housekeeping, The Waves, Melmoth, Bluets, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, Because I Was Flesh, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, Arbitrary Stupid Goal, We Take Me Apart, Machine
| Author | Marilynne Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312424094 |
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156949601 |
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...
For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.
It...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933517409 |
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...
Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
| Author | Darcey Steinke |
| ISBN | 0374156115 |
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear,...
| Author | Edward Dahlberg |
| ISBN | 0811200299 |
Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg's life as a child and young man, and a portrait in depth of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. It is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Seldom has there been so ruthless,...
| Author | Brian Blanchfield |
| ISBN | 1937658457 |
A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography
Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting,...
| Author | Tamara Shopsin |
| ISBN | 0374105863 |
An endlessly entertaining illustrated memoir, time-traveling to the Greenwich Village of the author’s bohemian 1970s childhood
Tamara Shopsin, the acclaimed New York Times and New Yorker illustrator, takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her...
| Author | Molly Gaudry |
| ISBN | 0983026327 |
Shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
2nd finalist: 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry
Taught at:
Wesleyan University
Brown University
Cornell College
Queens College, CUNY
New Mexico State University
Mount Mary College
“There...
| Author | Susan Steinberg |
| ISBN | 1555978479 |
A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of
Spectacle
Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves...
