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Mothering Through the Darkness: Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience
Edited by Jessica Smock and Stephanie Sprenger
Humor and honesty punctuate these compelling essays about the not-so-rosy side of parenting
Crush: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
By Cathy Alter and Dave Singleton
Authors recall those bittersweet, one-sided romances of youth
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
By Annie Dillard
An American writing giant is back with a sublime collection
And Yet…
By Christopher Hitchens
An entertaining posthumous collection of writings from the witty, acerbic Brit.
My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things
By Joseph Skibell
The ordinary is rendered extraordinary in this wonderful, insightful collection.
The author wanders through his mental library to better define a disappearing Dixie.
Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature
By Betsy Bird, Julie Danielson, and Peter D. Sieruta
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A delightfully subversive — and subversively delightful — look at the world of kids’ books.
Bad Feminist
By Roxane Gay
A thought-provoking revelation about what it means to be human.
