Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home
Sonja Boon
It's the last of the spring's new interviews on the Assay Interview Project! Today, Emily Smith interviews Sonja Boon about her book WHAT THE OCEANS REMEMBER. Don't miss it! #amreading #amwriting #interview #nonfiction https://t.co/MdZXw9ecok https://t.co/ZpNRhFLbhy
Paperback, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
Don't miss Ryan McIlvain's treatment of David Foster Wallace in ""You Get to Decide What to Worship but Not What's Good": Rereading 'This Is Water'" from our new fall issue! #amreading #amwriting https://t.co/sW9Ng17iWl https://t.co/0GinewbvEX
Hardcover, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
We're so happy to bring you Jennifer Lee Tsai's wonderful work from our new spring issue. Her "The Figure of the Diseuse in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee: Language, Breaking Silences and Irigarayan Mysticism" is essential reading. https://t.co/568teks6GA https://t.co/hZF2a9oKiJ
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass The editorial team wishes you a Happy #Thanksgiving — and encourages you to reflect on your role in ongoing settler colonialism in North America.
Paperback, 2015
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
#QOTD Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (Assay 3.2) https://t.co/AQjmfYONak https://t.co/DGgNmKRAFL
Paperback, 2004
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia
Adrian Shirk
Excited to add a new interview to the Assay Interview Project! Check out Caylin Capra-Thomas' interview with Adrian Shirk about her new book, Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia! https://t.co/Mni59h1j0z https://t.co/TUHXDFJH0u
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One by One, the Stars: Essays
Ned Stuckey-French
Robert Root pays tribute to the late, great Ned Stuckey-French and his posthumous book, One by One, the Stars, via "Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing," which we published in our very first issue. We still feel Ned's loss acutely around here. https://t.co/XSjgJBWLi2
Paperback, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Publishing Journal
Happy Monday, nonfictionists! We’re currently reading for our Fall Issue + beyond. We publishing formally in our journal + informally on our teaching blog. (High + low stakes writing, amirite?) And we’d love to reading your work! To learn more, visit https://t.co/TUk2wsdUYy.
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A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
#QOTD Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (Assay 3.2) https://t.co/AQjmfYONak https://t.co/DGgNmKRAFL
Paperback, 2000
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Fresh from our new spring issue, Jennifer Case's latest! Check out "Carework in the Creative Nonfiction Classroom: Toward a Trauma-Informed Pedagogy"--essential reading for all creative writing teachers. https://t.co/jr6nZhpnUQ https://t.co/zf7UbOB7iF
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book