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- The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 1. Collects new essays from unexpected places and new authors.
- Abigail Thomas, Three Dog Life. A memoir of a marriage, the right number of dogs, and figuring out how to get through the days in the wake of a terrible, terrible car accident. Stephen King calls it the best memoir, ever.
- Van Jordan, Quantum Lyrics. Van Jordan's new book of poems from Norton, his third book, is my favorite poetry book of the year. Rise and his stunning novel-as-poems, M A C N O L I A, make a perfect triple.
- Charles Ritchie and Peter Turchi, Suburban Journals: the sketchbooks, drawings, and prints of Charles Ritchie. “He inhabits his images so deeply,” writes Turchi, that any single representation is simply one in a potentially endless series.” Ritchie works every day, writing and art-making. He has a full time job. He says he needs the full time job in order to give shape to the day, contain the work— stunning and varied etchings, aquatints, monotypes, mezzotints that come out of the journals. “What artist’s work isn’t a self portrait?” Turchi asks.
- Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers and Crashing Through. Shadow Divers is the compelling story of deep sea diving for a dramatic, controversial wreck. Kurson's genius is in his ability to weave the story while wringing out insight and wisdom from each character, each scene, each sentence. He gets human. He gets story. Crashing Through is a white hot arrow of a book, in comparison to the constellation that is Divers. Mike May, blinded at age 3, has his sight restored. One of the few people to have undergone this experience, he is able to escape the profound depression common to most other cases of restored vision. Why? "I didn't do this to see again," he says of his corneal transplant. "I did this to see what seeing was."
Students Studying Fiction will Want to Read The Works of:
Jane Hamilton, Ernest Hemingway, Grace Paley, Rick Moody, Robert Boswell, Peter Turchi, Kent Haruf, Russell Banks, Lynda Barry, Gina Berriault, FS Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Miller, Michael Cunningham, Charles Baxter, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Lorraine Lopez, Anne Tyler, Larry Brown, Joy Williams, Andre Dubus, Lorrie Moore, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Henry James, John Cheever, Flannery O’Connor, Richard Russo, Amy Hempl, Michael Chabon, Kate Walbert, Vladimir Nabokov.
Students Studying Nonfiction and Memoir will Want to Read the Works of:
Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, John D'Agata, Tobais Wolff, Geoffrey Wolff, Amy Fusselman, Diane Ackerman, Robert Kurson, Michelle Hermann, Patricia Foster, Dorothy Allison, Joy Castro, Alice Sebold, Abigail Thomas, Jennifer Ackerman, Lauren Slater, Mark Salzman, Bob Tarte, Dinty Moore, Phillip Lopate, Barbara Kingsolver, Brenda Hillman, Mary Karr, Janet Burroway, poets and scientists.
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