Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers

5 best books like Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers (Susan Shaughnessy): Flight Behavior, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Meetings with Remarkable Trees, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, The Last Opium Den

Flight Behavior

Author	Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN	0062124269

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.

Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow...

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author	Bessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN	0670785938

A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
 
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...

Meetings with Remarkable Trees

Author	Thomas Pakenham
ISBN	0375752684

Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers,...

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology

Author	Robert Bly
ISBN	0060924209

This is one of my favorite all-time poetry anthologies. I picked it up at a discount bookstore in San Francisco, back when I was still a reader searching for the right books. And I swear, back when I was reading mostly fiction and memoir, and my depression was making nonsense of my writing, this book brought...

The Last Opium Den

Author

Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss.

Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand...