The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction
10 best books like The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction (Robert Boswell): The Bird Eater, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Nightwood, Dreaming in Cuban, Our Nig, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Mullumbimby, The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ruth Hall and Other Writings, Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
| Author | Ania Ahlborn |
| ISBN | 1480581054 |
Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself,...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
| Author | James Hogg |
| ISBN | 0192835904 |
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
| Author | Djuna Barnes |
| ISBN | 0811216713 |
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a...
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980. Celia's story mirrors the magical realism of Cuba itself, a country of beauty...
| Author | Harriet E. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0142437778 |
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household....
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140586687 |
Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry.
I could...
| Author | Melissa Lucashenko |
| ISBN | 0702239194 |
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia’s most admired Indigenous voices.
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 1593080506 |
Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with...
| Author | Fanny Fern |
| ISBN | 0813511682 |
When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role designed...
Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
| Author | Jaya Saxena |
| ISBN | 1594749779 |
Capitalizing on the rising trend of hipster witchcraft, BASIC WITCHES is a lighthearted and empowering book of spells and lifestyle tips for feisty millennial women.
In Basic Witches, readers will discover how to tap into their inner sorceress and channel the dark arts for everything from...
