Aspects (Academic)/Life Writings
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The Ear of the Heart: An Actress’ Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows
$27.95 Add to cart“Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.” – Saint Benedict.
Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. N
- Author: Hart, Dolores
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1621642496
- Language: English
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The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
$16.00 Add to cartA brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0399576002
- Language: English
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Study in Perfect
$21.95 Add to cartStudy in Perfect is an exploration of perfection. In “Moving Horizontal” a Victorian house loses its charm over time, especially when compared to a modernist contemporary filled with light. Family lif
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Gorham, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351431
- Language: English
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Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
$19.95 Add to cartSam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including Tr
- Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: October 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292761961
- Language: English
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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
$22.99 Read moreThe Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding memb… [more below]
- Author: Fearnley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1556529503
- Language: English
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Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Babitz, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1501111450
- Language: English
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What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of A Three Dog Life–an exhilarating, superbly written memoir on friendship, family, creativity, tragedy, and the richness of life: “If you only r
- Author: Thomas, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476785066
- Language: English
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What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartA funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the “vacationship”–the inspiration for the upcoming Freeform series While You Were Breeding
“What I Was Doing While You Were Br… [more below]- Author: Newman, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0804137609
- Language: English
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The Essential Ginsberg
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pa
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0062362283
- Language: English
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Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone
$29.99 Read moreRaised in Queens, New York, Johnny Ramone founded one of the most influential rock bands of all time, but he never strayed from his blue-collar roots and attitude. He was truly imbued with the angry-y… [more below]
- Author: Ramone, Johnny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 081099660X
- Language: English
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Life Among the Savages
$18.00 Add to cartIn a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkne- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143128043
- Language: English
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It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War
$19.00 Add to cart“An unflinching memoir . . . that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them.” —The Washington Post
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memo- Author: Addario, Lynsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128418
- Language: English
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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
$29.00 Add to cartTravel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield’s “enthralling” bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate).
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged n- Author: Hadfield, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0316253014
- Language: English
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I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
$17.99 Add to cart“Short’s endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it’s also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who’s thrived on planet Hollywood.” — Washington Post
In this engagingly witty, wise, and
- Author: Short, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062309544
- Language: English
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My Body Is a Book of Rules
$19.95 Add to cart“A candid, autobiographical scrapbook from a young woman navigating manic depression….A fever dream of darkly personal memories and musings from the shadowy corners of sexual violence and mental ill
- Author: Washuta, Elissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 12, 2014
- ISBN10: 1597099694
- Language: English
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The Light of the World: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an exi- Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 6, 2016
- ISBN10: 1455599867
- Language: English
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The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon
One of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.
“It’s bloody marvelous.” – Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling- Author: Rebanks, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1250060265
- Language: English
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Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
$24.95 Add to cartWriting exercises and creativity advice from Barry’s pioneering, life-changing workshop
The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It- Author: Barry, Lynda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1770461612
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$22.95 Add to cartRain of Gold is a true-life saga of love, family and destiny that pulses with bold vitality, sweeping from the war-ravaged Mexican mountains of Pancho Villa’s revolution to the days of Prohibition in … [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1558858091
- Language: English
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H Is for Hawk
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times Book Review‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Slate‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction- Author: MacDonald, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124739
- Language: English
