NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People).
After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she…
I learned a lot of (unfortunately) infuriating information about how politics affects major environmental and health decisions. Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, should be in prison for what he did.
In poems of memory, psychogeography, desire, and self-mythologization, then telling be the antidote is Xiao Yue Shan's assertion against the malignancy of forceful silences.
By illuminating what has been left untold, these writings present the vivid landscape of a mind layering itself over the world, thinking and speaking its way through a myriad of places, objects, and visions. From rooms overlooking Tokyo rivers to Shanghai streets in the thrall of nighttime, Shan throws light on a nation's quieted crevices, on the distances between the carnal and the eternal, and most pivotally, on the ability of language to elucidate fact with…
A collection of poems focused on place, especially Lake Superior and Michigan’s upper peninsula, but also the Catskill region of New York, the plains of Nebraska, and one famous bridge in California. They’re filled with water, sometimes in the form of snow and ice, and they’re populated by dragonflies, white deer, and black bears. Many of these poems were originally published in periodicals like The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The New England Review, and other magazines and anthologies.
