The Life-Writer

8 best books like The Life-Writer (David Constantine): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Year of the Monkey, Mister Monkey, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, Lost and Wanted, Let Me Finish, The Little Red Chairs

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Author	N.K. Jemisin
ISBN	0316491349

In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...

Year of the Monkey

Author	Patti Smith
ISBN	0525657681

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...

Mister Monkey

Author	Francine Prose
ISBN	0062397850

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.

Mister Monkey—a screwball...

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Author	Mary Pipher
ISBN	1632869608

A New York Times Bestseller

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.

Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy...

Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

Author	Steven Greenhouse
ISBN	1101874430

From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered

In an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve...

Lost and Wanted

Author	Nell Freudenberger
ISBN	0385352689

'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.'

Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university...

Let Me Finish

Author

Roger Angell

Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York...

The Little Red Chairs

Author	Edna O'Brien
ISBN	0316378232

The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien.

A woman discovers that the foreigner she thinks will redeem her life is a notorious war criminal.

Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish...