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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Roz Chast | 2014 | Architecture & Design
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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"Roz Chast is always funny, but this graphic memoir about caring for her aging parents is also raw, brutally honest, and heartbreaking. It’s an unsparing portrait of decline, but also a loving act of witness; it tells the truth without sugar-coating or looking away."

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From the New World
From the New World
Jorie Graham | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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"No poet since Wallace Stevens has used poetry as a vehicle for such ecstatic thinking. In her recent books, Graham has faced up to the peril of our moment more than any other writer I know. She has become not just a brilliant poet, but an essential witness."

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Witness by Katy Perry
Witness by Katy Perry
2017 | Rock
Perry’s heartfelt ballads feel tacked on in the face of all this weirdness. Perhaps it’s time to let that freak flag fully fly free.
  
Sex and Death to The Age 14
Sex and Death to The Age 14
Spalding Gray | 1986 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
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"This compilation of Gray’s earliest monologues is heartbreaking and hilarious. Encountering the neuroses and contradictions Gray lays bare in this work gave me a permission I hadn’t yet been given: to accept and even celebrate mystery, mortality, and imperfection. To encounter these pieces is to be Gray’s vital witness. He needs you."

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