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The Makers of Rome
Plutarch · 2005
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 1973
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver · 2020
Giovannis Room
Baldwin, James
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Xiaolu Guo · 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
Joan Didion · 2008
Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”<br/><br/>More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 1989
