Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Literary Studies
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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Category: Literary Studies
An essential volume for generations of writers young and old, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been in ...Show more
2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege by The Conversation, Michael Hopkin (ed.)
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Category: Literary Studies
As 2022 unfolded, we saw power manifest in its various guises: Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; the COVID pandemic and its international disruptions continued to shape lives globally and abortion laws changed monumentally in the US. In Australia, the power of voters changed the gove ...Show more
Unlikeable Female Characters - The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya; Terri White (Foreword by)
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Category: Literary Studies
"A fresh feminist appraisal of the pop culture canon." - Publishers Weekly. How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman ...Show more
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
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Category: Literary Studies
'This book is about a revolution. It has radically upended how we've understood and interacted with our world. It has demolished traditional barriers and empowered millions who were previously marginalized. It has created vast new sectors of our economy, while devastating legacy institutions. It is ofte ...Show more
The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
"No Fear Shakespeare" gives you the complete text of "The Tempest" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language ...Show more
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
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Category: Literary Studies
The Book of Pride captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, o ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
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Category: Literary Studies
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
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Category: Literary Studies
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
Women Who Write Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollman; Francine Prose (Foreword by)
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Category: Literary Studies
A sequel to the best-selling Women Who Read Are Dangerous, presenting portraits and profiles of fearless women writers past and present Writing has not always been considered a suitable career for women. Indeed, it was once common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in order to be taken s ...Show more
In/Out: A Scandalous Story of Falling Into Love and Out of the Church by Steph Lentz
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Category: Literary Studies
In January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian school after she came out as a lesbian. A hardcore Christian during her teens and twenties, Steph once preached against homosexuality and defended her church's conservative teachings about marriage and sex - ...Show more