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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) What does it means to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when...- $16.95
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Wishful Drinking
The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the...- $17.00
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If They Come for Us: Poems
"A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice."--Booklist"Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones."--Elle"[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed...- $16.00
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Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writersOne of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of The Guardian's 100 Best...- $18.00
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Marginalia
Constructed of words, artwork, photos and personal artifacts, Marginalia is an intimate and unconventional account of what it means to be a hybrid. It seamlessly interweaves experience with elements of sociology and psychology, exploring how one cultivates an identity containing multitudes- queer, trans, mixed-race,...- $16.95
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Heaven
For more information, visit McSweeneys.net Named a best book by The AV Club, PAPER Magazine, LitHub, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, Refinery29, the Observer, and the Seattle Times Emerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is...- $24.00
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God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A mother of two, a Christian, and a lifelong resident of middle America, Lenz was bewildered by...- $22.00
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Every Grain of Sand
2020 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize ShortList Finalist, Montaigne Medal Finalist, Horizon Award FinalistFinalist LGBTQ Non-Fiction 2020 International Book AwardsMaxy Award Non-Fiction Finalist"Every Grain of Sand is a heartbreaking memoir that I could not put down, a story of pain, of the search for one's...- $16.99
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Socialist Realism
Moving West-from Singapore to America, from New York to California--a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities. When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"--someplace utopian, like...- $18.00
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Tonight I'm Someone Else
"I had a real romance with this book." --Miranda JulyA highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, "bracingly good...refreshing and welcome," that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect. From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar...- $18.99
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments--hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author's "mesmerizing, thrilling" truths within its pages--has been selected by the publication's book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir,...- $15.00
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Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer...- $19.00
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White Album
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan...- $18.00
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Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Praise for Solitary: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONNamed One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2019Winner of the Stowe PrizeNamed the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of...- $19.00
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Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies...- $16.95
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black...- $19.00
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
A New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Readers Pick #1 New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post and Los Angeles Times BestsellerAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As...- $22.00
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Shorter Views
In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or...- $29.95
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics--A Collection of Written Interviews
A collection of substantial written interviews.Samuel R. Delany, whose theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy has won him a broad audience among academics and fans of postmodernist fiction, offers insights into and explorations of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black...- $29.95
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Manchild in the Promised Land
With millions of copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time--the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature. Published during a literary...- $20.00
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