Kevin Baker is one of America's premier historians as well as one of our finest writers. He delights in language, and it shows in every sentence. Here, he combines the history of the greatest city in the world with the history of baseball. This is a perfectly researched, wonderfully written, thoroughly entertaining book that should be read by all.
Taylor Broby's opening is a thing of brilliance. His insights into his own gayness, as it relates to the extraction economy, is as breathtaking as it is informing about the mighty nation that is America. Sentence by sentence, Brorby informs us about how place shapes people, wonderfully inviting us to consider what ground under our own feet shaped us, as well.
This is a brave and talented author whose decision to live as a writer risks her existence. Her writing is superb, and the reflections she provokes about America are profound.
'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart' GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed
**Roxane Gay's Book Club March 2023 Pick**
When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear.
It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and suddenly everything…
The greatest story you could write is one you've experienced yourself. Knowing where to start is the hardest part, but it just got a little easier with this essential guidebook for anyone wanting to write a memoir.
Through the use of disarmingly frank but wildly fun tactics that offer you simple and effective guidelines that work, you can stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind writer's block. Previously self-published under the title Writing What You Know: Raelia, this book has found an enthusiastic audience that now writes with intent.
