You know what else I bet is so good? The book: White Girls which “finds one of The New Yorker’s boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history.”ġ. It’s by Lucy Grealy who died in 2002 of a heroin overdose and before that wrote the 1994 bestseller Autobiography of a Face, about her experiences with facial disfigurement resulting from cancer of the jaw.ħ. Wasn’t Hilton Als‘ Guernica essay White Girls so good? It was so good. In the aforementioned article, Kogan says that Shutterbabe was not her choice of title, but at least one the struggle over the cover art, which the publishers wanted to be a “naked cartoon torso against a pink background with a camera covering the genitalia.” But aside from all that, it’s still a great book.Ħ. Oh, Mirrorings was so sad and haunting, maybe you remember it. The essay which became Into the Wild, Death of an Innocent, is available in its entirety on The New Statesman.ĥ. In My So-Called Post-Feminist Life In Arts and Letters, published this April in The Nation, Deborah Copaken Kogan discusses the omnipresent sexism that dominated her entire experience in publishing, including the launch of her best-known book, Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War, which is the story of her early years as a photojournalist.
Jon Krakauer is always a shoo-in for lists like this- specifically, his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, the longer version of the essay we read in Byliner some time back, and Into the Wild, which Krakauer effectively “ updated” this year in The New Yorker to reveal new details discovered recently about Christopher Johnson McCandless, who died alone while on a solo journey in Alaska. If you liked that, you’d probs like the anthology it’s published in - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays.Ĥ. Obviously Joan Didion is one of my favorite non-fiction writers ever, and this year I made you read her essay Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream. But did you know that he wrote a book also, because he did and it’s called The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood.ģ.
You know Ta-Nehsi Coates from his work at The Atlantic, including May’s A Religion of Colorblind Policy.
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The first piece of his I included in a TIRTL was “ You are The Second Person,” from Guernica, and subsequent inclusions include How to Slowly Kill Yourselves And Others in America and The Worst of White People. His essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, is a must-read must-own book of 2013.Ģ. Kiese Laymon has been a breakout star in the literary world this year, and I’m not alone in wanting to furiously gobble up every word this man has written. This gift guide is special because it’s sort of also a gift guide for the gifts you give yourself - chances are good you’re gonna be trapped in an airport somewhere for hours this holiday season, and you’ll need lots of kickass reading to keep you occupied. All of the books in this guide, unless otherwise noted, are by authors whose work we’ve read in past Things I Read That I Love. Last year I put together a pretty fantastic Things I Read That I Love gift guide, which you should definitely check out because books are forever and I still think you should buy all of the books I told you to buy last year. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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