Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

7 best books like Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities (Olena Kalytiak Davis): Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Biography, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative, Antoni in the Kitchen, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

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...

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Author

Ocean Vuong

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...

Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Biography

Author	Zena Alkayat
ISBN	1452150230

Step into the world of one of history's most celebrated artists and feminist icons: Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography is full of colorful details that illuminate the woman behind the artwork, including excerpts from Kahlo's personal letters and diaries on her childhood dreams...

My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

Author

Paul Guest

“A Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way.”
—Dallas Morning News

 

Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest’s My Index of Slightly Horrifying...

Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative

Author	Danielle Krysa
ISBN	1452148449

This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist's inner critic. Silencing that stifling voice once and for all, this salve for creatives introduces ten truths they must face in order to defeat self-doubt. Each encouraging chapter deconstructs a pivotal moment on the path to success—fear of the...

Antoni in the Kitchen

Author	Antoni Porowski
ISBN	1328631346

Antoni Porowski, the food and wine guru on Netflix's sensation Queer Eye, meets people where they live—literally. With appealing vulnerability, he shows cooks of all levels how to become more confident and casual in the kitchen. The verve and naturalness of his approach earned raves from Food &...

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Author	Kerry Hudson
ISBN	1784742457

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns

'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense...