Yes, I bought this book for the cover! I've been seeing this NYRB Classics reissue of The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, with it’s e...

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So I told Pol I must work alone. The only way was the quick way and I didn’t want it cluttered up with a motley crew of cover men who’d t...

Karen Stefano is a lawyer and author. Her new memoir, What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath , examines th...

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Sometimes fear is justified and perhaps the worst part of victimhood is the self-blame, the refusal to trust yourself, of adding the weig...

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But at this moment, she knew, she had to follow her memories on a journey back in time to the exciting days when she planned the bottle...

Two new books from Brown Paper Press showed up for me last week. What books came into your house? Trove: A Woman's Search for Truth...

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My policy of reading books my friends write means that every few years I read a book about education policy by my high school buddy, Mit...

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Before the arraignment, before I even knew for sure that my father would be arrested, I'd written to Jake about how my father became ...

A memoir and a book of poetry came my way last week. What about you? What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath...

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Two new books came my way last week. What books came into your house? Beyond the Ripples by Dede Montgomery . Described as "a mult...

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