Purchase a copy for yourself here! In her most recent essay collection, The Brown Album, Porochista Khakpour begins with her family’s riches to rags stories. Having immigrated to California after the 1979 revolution, her parents, who worked at the prestigious Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, left their comfortable life in Tehran for relative poverty in… Continue reading The Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour
Category: Essay Collections
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Samantha Irby’s third collection of essays, Wow, No Thank You, is the perfect read for those of us entering into a new level of comfortability with ourselves during this time of social isolation. Irby’s previous essay collections, Meaty and We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, take more of… Continue reading Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Erosion is the recent essay collection from Terry Tempest Williams, an author and activist who has been writing about the environment and humanity’s relationship to it for decades. This collection encapsulates both the private and the public, including fierce calls to defend America’s public lands, as well as Williams’… Continue reading Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Emily Nussbaum is a critic who had been writing about television as an art form years before virtually anyone else considered it one, when it was still a point of pride for intellectuals to not have a TV set in their home. Her recent essay collection, I Like to… Continue reading I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Dolly Alderton is a British author, journalist, and podcast host, whose bestselling memoir Everything I Know About Love, will be released in the United States this coming February. The memoir spans from Alderton’s teen years all the way up to her 30th birthday, tracing her personal growth in the… Continue reading Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Vanity Fair’s Women on Women Edited by Radhika Jones with David Friend
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Vanity Fair’s Women on Women is a collection of essays from the magazine’s modern archives, profiles of women written by women, spanning from 1983 to the current day. In her introduction, the magazine’s current editor-in-cheif, Radhika Jones, quotes a proclamation from the magazine’s inaugural editor, “We hereby announce ourselves… Continue reading Vanity Fair’s Women on Women Edited by Radhika Jones with David Friend
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Purchase a copy for yourself here! “For readers who’ve wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.” This claim appears on the inside jacket of Jia Tolentino’s debut essay collection, Trick Mirror. Tolentino is an established voice on the internet, a staff writer at The New Yorker,… Continue reading Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino