{"id":527,"date":"2018-02-02T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=527"},"modified":"2018-02-02T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:53:39","slug":"could-you-recommend-a-good-book-of-personal-essays-an-author-you-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/02\/could-you-recommend-a-good-book-of-personal-essays-an-author-you-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Could you recommend a good book of personal essays (an author you like)?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t know your interests, so I’ll recommend several. For humorous & honest essays about writing, it’s hard to beat Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life<\/em> (O’Neill PN147 .L315 1994). For intriguing & dreamlike essays about personal growth, art, and the loss of a difficult mother: The Faraway Nearby<\/em>, by Rebecca Solnit. (O’Neill PS3569.O585 Z46 2013) For powerful essays about race, either the well-known Between the World & Me<\/em>, by Ta Nehisi Coates (BC Libraries, check catalog for many listings) or the lesser-known but equally powerful How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America<\/em>, by Kiese Laymon (O’Neill PS3612.A959 Z46 2013), both of which owe a major debt to James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time<\/em> (O’Neill & TML E185.61 .B195 1993). If any are unavailable, any other books by these authors are worth pursuing. Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know your interests, so I’ll recommend several. For humorous & honest essays about writing, it’s hard to beat Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (O’Neill PN147 .L315 1994). For intriguing & dreamlike essays about personal growth, art, and the loss of a difficult mother: The Faraway Nearby, by … <\/p>\n

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