Self-Help & Books
“A Life of One’s Own” is part memoir by Joanna Biggs, recounting her starting over after her divorce, and part biographical exploration of the path to independence and intellectual freedom carved by nine famous women writers who also began again (notably Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante).
“Dept. of Speculation” is a fictional meditative novel about a crumbling marriage through short vignettes, in which the ‘wife’ narrator struggles between the demands of a desired art life and the reality of a domestic life.
“Bread of Angels” is a memoir that explores Patti Smith’s genesis, from her early artistic admirations and storytelling inclinations to the arduous path she’s trekked personally and artistically throughout her life and career. Patti Smith has stayed true to her bohemian roots amid poverty, great loss, and political turmoil.
“How To Manifest With Magic and Dark Cosmic Energy” is a non-fiction, full-picture guidebook on precisely that, manifesting with magic and dark cosmic energy by the famous YouTuber Shera Seven (on her main channel) or Ashera Goddess (on her second channel).
“Half His Age” is a novel following seventeen-year-old Waldo, a sharp, lonely, depressed, and always-wanting girl who becomes enamoured by her creative writing teacher, Mr. Korgy, who’s twice her age, married with a family, and a self-proclaimed failure.
“Things in Nature Merely Grow” is a gutwrenching, unflichingly honest non-fiction memoir about Yiyun Li’s thoughts on losing her second son, James, to suicide, following the loss of her first son, Vincent, a few years prior.
