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Books: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir by Aileen Weintraub
If a late-twenties Aileen Weintraub hadn’t quit her job at a Manhattan-based children’s publishing company back in the year 2000 to work...
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Books: Breaking Dawn? How About Breaking Down. I’m So Glad This is Over.
You didn’t think I was finished, did you? No, we’ve got one more round in the ring. This one goes out to arguably the...
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Books: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
In my early twenties, I fell out of love with crime thrillers. After reading yet another book in the genre with a female character...
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Books: Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
A poet by trade, Molly McCully Brown now turns her hand to memoir, using a series of essays to trace the year she spent...
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Books: Final Girls with the Final Word
When we think of slashers, obviously Freddy, Michael, and Jason quickly come to mind, but beyond the masks and machetes, there is always a...
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Books: Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
I fell in love with Patti Smith’s music when I was nineteen. Her most widely known song, “Because the Night" from her 1978 album...
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Books: I Hated This One: An Eclipse Reread
I knew this one was bad, but I wasn’t prepared for the avalanche of nausea Eclipse brought me this go-round. I fully had to...
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Books: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi. It is an emotional, informative, and humorous memoir about what it was like...
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Books: Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
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Jen Winston’s debut essay collection, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, begins with a scene in which she is gazing at...
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Books: I Hated This One: An Eclipse Reread
I knew this one was bad, but I wasn’t prepared for the avalanche of nausea Eclipse brought me this go-round. I fully had to...
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The Tree of Life
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I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.
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Books: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi. It is an emotional, informative, and humorous memoir about what it was like...