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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are fed to wild beasts to the S&M leather bars of New York in the 1970s, this sinuous and illuminating book by novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt explore the lives of uncommonly brave men and women--saints, philosophers, artists--who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge society's mores and entrenched power structures. Running through her narrative of the Body...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Losing her beloved father at age eleven, a child finds the strength to reinvent herself as a woman of influence and substance. Neglected by a grieving mother, she finds solace in poetry and art. A child of the sixties, Joan jumps headlong into the format of political activism and rock and roll. Upon landing in Berkeley, she is embraced by a community of artists who encourage her to find her voice"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of impeccably written essays, Schwartz tells us early on that she never thought of her life as a "continuous line," but rather a series of intertwined, interrupted experiences. Hers is a life that has been bumped, tumbled, and smoothed by an endless stream of travel, fascinating people, and writing them, pondering them, translating them. Her essays range from musings about the art of translation, the tribulations of major surgery...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"My Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert which reflect upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and aging. A seventy-year history of disability is threaded throughout these essays and intertwined with writing that celebrates lesbian love, explores the slapstick moments of life, and shares the obstacles and triumphs of becoming a writer later in life. The...
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