My Misspent Youth: Essays
7 best books like My Misspent Youth: Essays (Meghan Daum): The Witches Are Coming, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays, Dear Diary, Actual Air
| Author | Lindy West |
| ISBN | 0316449881 |
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE’RE WITCHES,
AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
| Author | Nick Flynn |
| ISBN | 0393329402 |
Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory...
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
| Author | Natasha Walter |
| ISBN | 1844084841 |
Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many...
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
| Author | Bassey Ikpi |
| ISBN | 0062894781 |
A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences navigating Bipolar II and anxiety throughout the course of her life.
Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother joined her father in Stillwater, Oklahoma...
| Author | Lesley Arfin |
| ISBN | 1576873838 |
A collection of a girl's funniest diary entries from 12 to 25 years old. She updates each entry by tracking down the people involved and asking awkward questions like, "Do you remember when I tried to beat you up?" Sometimes old friends apologize. Sometimes they become new enemies. No matter who she talks...
| Author | David Berman |
| ISBN | 1890447048 |
David Berman reinvents the overlooked and seemingly ordinary details of everyday life--from the suitcase of a departing girlfriend to a baseboard electrical outlet. His poems chart a course through his own highly original American dreamscape in language that is fresh, accessible, and remarkably...
