“Delving into the past, in this wonderful, singularly wry memoir, turns up enough guilt to go around for everyone. And yet, such is the honesty, humor and literary skill of Terese Svoboda that she manages to turn this sad story into a triumph of compassion and insight.” —Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay
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“With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.”
—Dani Shapiro
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"In these insightful essays, even the writing itself is cinematic, as
Sprengnether's memories and quick film summaries meld into one another,
making it seem as if the author hasn't just seen many movies, but has
actually lived one." —Publishers Weekly
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"Memoir, meditation, dreambook, anthology of winged words-- the perfect gift
for every birdwatcher on your list." —Ursula K. Le Guin
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The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, present, and immediate future.
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"A masterful memoir... Early Morning would be a rare and
exceptional book in any season, any year. Coming as it does in a time
of national crisis, it is needed in the same way victims of scurvy and
pellagra need vitamins." —Bloomsbury Review
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"John Haines is a master writer, as we have known for years. Now this
book reveals more: a range of intelligence and affection such that I
cannot imagine any reader being unmoved by them. It is a great and
splendid book." —Hayden Carruth
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"This book shows all the vital signs of genius. In Famous Builder
Paul Lisicky asks the tragic American question: who are you if you've
recreated yourself? And he answers it: you are alone, vulnerable, and
fully loaded." —Edmund White
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Winner of the 2005 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, judged by Robert Polito
“[Braverman’s] talent, uncorked, is as bold and brave and beautiful as anything we see from writers of her generation.”—Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle
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"Kenyon writes prose the way she writes poetry, turning simple or
frankly unbeautiful things sideways and inviting us to see what they
offer us to love." —The New Yorker
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"A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and
danger....It offers a unique perspective on the Holocaust, one that
captures its horror without missing the central characters' strength,
courage and passion." —USA Today
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“Original and beautifully written....Her journey is winding, but it ends at an important place for both reader and writer.” —Publishers Weekly
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“A fiercely lyrical portrait of a father and son’s deeply scarred history. . . A Lie About My Father achieves an aching grace through his deeply reflective honesty about the huge untruths that bound him to his rage-prone working-class Scottish dad.” —Elle
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"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated
love." —Ms.
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"You may never again see the American West in quite the same way if you
take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge.... A
stunning book." —The Seattle Times
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" A Postcard Memoir is the kind of book I'd secretly like to slip into my friends' back pockets,
marked READ ME." —Rosellen Brown
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The Saddest Pleasure tells the story of Thomsen's desperate
departure from Ecuador at the age of sixty-three and his soul-seraching
journey through the Brazil and the Amazon river.
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"An unlikely, powerful blending of lyricism with straightforward
descriptions of cruelty. . . . A rare record of one Southeast Asian
among the anonymous millions who lived to tell the tale." —The New York Times Book Review
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"Such a life may not be possible again. So it is good that a writer of
Mr. Haines's rare vision and poetic eloquence lived this life, and good
that he has shared it." —The New York Times Book Review
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“Lewis Buzbee’s heartwarming book—an ode to the raptures of browsing,
and a tribute to the ingenuities of vending—rekindles and rationalizes
my love for bookstores, those sometimes ramshackle dream palaces. A
graceful amalgam of memoir and history, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop celebrates bibliophilic pleasures that I hope will never go out of style.” —Wayne Koestenbaum
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