Book Recs

Cultivated list of recommended books:

• Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
• Fiction/Prose
• On Writing
• Classics

Cultivated list of recommended Essays and Writing on the web:

• ‘The Crane Wife’, by CJ Hauser for The Paris Review 2019
• ‘After Life’, by Joan Didion for The New York Times 2005
• ‘Downstream’, by Lacy M. Johnson for Orion Magazine 2024
• ‘How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer See’, by Kiley Bense for Lit Hub 2019
• ‘How to Mourn a Glacier’, by Lacy M. Johnson for The New Yorker 2019
• ‘My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual’. Maybe We All Are’, by Jean Guerrero for Wired Magazine 2018
• ‘An Incomplete History of Teaching Body’, by Arley Cruthers for Hybrid Pedagogy 2021
• ‘The Professor’ by Irina Dumitrescu for Longreads
• ‘Steel Anniversary’, by Noa Covo for Barrelhouse Mag 2022
• ‘Whose Story (And Country) Is This?’ by Rebecca Solnit for Literary Hub 2018
• ‘Let’s Talk About Shredded Romaine Lettuce’, by Wendy Rawlings for Places Journal 2014
• ‘What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About’, by Michele Filgate for Longreads 2017
• ‘On Being a Reporter’, by Kristen Millares Young for Cascadia Magazine 2019
• ‘My Withered Legs’, by Sandra Gail Lambert for The Paris Review 2018