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  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly... (more)
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  Firebird

  A Memoir

  by Mark Doty

  In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!" Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One. A self-confessed "chubby smart bookish... (more)
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  Literary Reminiscences: and Autobiographical Fragments

  by Ivan Turgenev, David Magarshack

  Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for. --New York Herald-Tribune.
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  Exiles

  by Michael J. Arlen

  Back in print, “a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up.” ( Time ) Exiles is the story of two glamorous people—one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s. In this slender volume, which was nominated for the 1970 National Book Award and helped reestablish the memoir as a genre, their son evokes—with humor and honesty—his parents’... (more)
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  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  by Haruki Murakami

  In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and... (more)
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  The American Poet Who Went Home Again

  by Aberjhani

  Just like modern literary life, The American Poet Who Went Home Again expands beyond the safety of pages bound by predictability to explore and often confirm exciting creative possibilities. A shimmering collage of memoir, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and dizzying flights into poetic observation, this is the amazing story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia,... (more)
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  The Butterfly Mosque

  A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  by G. Willow Wilson

  The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. When G. Willow Wilson - already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just twenty-seven - leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an... (more)