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
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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
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
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Zadie Smith is a towering figure in world literature, widely regarded as one of the most individual voices and incisive observers in our society. She burst onto the scene in 2000 with her debut novel, White Teeth, and since then has been publishing across the fiction and nonfiction genres,… Continue reading Grand Union by Zadie Smith