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Anne Sexton – A Self-Portrait in Letters
$8.00 | Book / Paper Goods, Used ItemsAn expression of an extraordinary poet’s life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, […]
GENRE: Memoir -
James Ellroy – My Dark Places
$8.00 | Book / Paper Goods, Used ItemsIn 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of […]
GENRE: Memoir -
John Corbett – Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
$9.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, Print, Used ItemsUnless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEdgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse; 22 December 1883 – 2 November 6 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career […]
GENRE: Memoir, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Claude Cahun – Disavowals
$90.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMemories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary.–from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a […]
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Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not […]
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Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
$20.00 | Book, PrintAn uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir -
Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
$18.00 | Book, PrintHow do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]
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Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir -
John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]
GENRE: Memoir -
Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]
GENRE: Memoir -
Richard Thompson – Beeswing
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir -
Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
$18.00 | Book, PrintTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of th…
$14.00 | Book, PrintDon’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]
GENRE: Memoir