Swimming Studies
10 best books like Swimming Studies (Leanne Shapton): Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer, Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory, The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir, The Professor and Other Writings, Karaoke Culture, Making Marriage Simple: Ten Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, And Also Sharks, This Is Running for Your Life: Essays, My Poets
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
| Author | Lynne Cox |
| ISBN | 0156031302 |
Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.
Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming...
Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
| Author | P.H. Mullen Jr. |
| ISBN | 0312311168 |
In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as two best friends (a mentor and his protégé) reach the top of the world rankings and unexpectedly find themselves direct competitors. Their teammates...
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374298602 |
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city...
| Author | Terry Castle |
| ISBN | 0061670901 |
“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag
From one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written...
| Author | Dubravka Ugrešić |
| ISBN | 1934824577 |
Ugrešić's few essays on former-Yugoslav literature in its context are engrossing, but too much of the other material here was mediocre. These weren't the sort of pieces that, based on the author's formidable reputation, I'd variously looked forward to reading, or assumed to be intimidating.
In...
| Author | Harville Hendrix |
| ISBN | 0770437125 |
Change the relationship you have into the one you want.
Welcome to the Relationship Revolution! "Making Marriage Simple "is the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Bestselling authors Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt distill into ten essential...
| Author | Susan M. Love |
| ISBN | 0738209732 |
Recent research is rapidly changing the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of breast cancer. Just as women afflicted with or worried about breast cancer have turned to the earlier editions of Dr. Susan Love's guide for the soundest, most supportive advice, once again they will find all the help they...
| Author | Jessica Westhead |
| ISBN | 1770860037 |
Finalist for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award A 2011 Globe and Mail Top 100 book One of Kobo's Best Ebooks of 2011 The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed. A disgruntled follower of a self-esteem blog posts a rambling...
This Is Running for Your Life: Essays
| Author | Michelle Orange |
| ISBN | 0374533326 |
Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched times
In This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave...
| Author | Maureen N. McLane |
| ISBN | 0374217491 |
A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry’s uniquely seductive spell.
“Oh! There are spirits of the air!” wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet’s mind. Weaving...
| Author | Lynn Sherr |
| ISBN | 1610390466 |
Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It’s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It’s...
| Author | Sarah Manguso |
| ISBN | 0374167249 |
The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, “An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station on West 254th Street.” Sarah Manguso writes: “The train’s engineer...
| Author | Dara Torres |
| ISBN | 0767931904 |
From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age...
| Author | Marco Roth |
| ISBN | 0374210284 |
A frank, intelligent, and deeply moving debut memoir
With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician—from the time he could get his toddler tongue to a pronounce a word like “De-oxy ribonucleic acid,” or recite a French poem—Marco Roth was able...
| Author | Sigrid Nunez |
| ISBN | 1935633228 |
Sigrid Núñez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Núñez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Núñez moved into the apartment...
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely-held attitudes about the importance of stylistic consistency and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and...
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence
| Author | Kim Dana Kupperman |
| ISBN | 1555975607 |
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings is a finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Kim Dana Kupperman's essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic "missives" cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love affairs,...
| Author | Iain Reid |
| ISBN | 1770892419 |
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.
In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation -- which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old...
| Author | Tony Benn |
| ISBN | 0091931266 |
Emphasizing the importance of the future and those who will live through it, this statement seeks to address the lessons that can be learned from the past. Striving to prevent the next generation from making the same mistakes as its predecessors, this recollection highlights those who struggled for...
| Author | Dave Zirin |
| ISBN | 1931859205 |
Once i started this, I had trouble putting it down. Part of me was hoping that the book would give me a reason to like sports, enlightening me on something that i've just missed out on or didn't see, but in reality, it only gave me a reason to like certain athletes using their popularity as a pulpit, despite...
The most recent baseball game I attended was with a group of coworkers, as a way to celebrate our new team at work and to spend time together outside of the office.
To call them coworkers is perhaps reductive: these are my friends, people with whom I share my thoughts and ideas and ups and downs....
| Author | Vivian Swift |
| ISBN | 1632860279 |
God I love Vivian Swift’s books. They are enchanting. Later, just a few hours after finishing it, I was staring into a garden around City Hall and the Tweed Courthouse. It was night and fireflies came out. I never see fireflies, I was so thrilled, and it was all so magical and lovely and I thought, I’m...
| Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN | 1590176073 |
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings...
| Author | Mary Cantwell |
| ISBN | 0140232230 |
An autobiographical account of a female writer in the 1950s. Fresh out of college, Cantwell arrived in Greenwich Village and shared an apartment with a friend. Despite all the flair of metropolitan life, experiences with high-style department stores, exclusive little shops, theaters, parties,...
