Susan Burton Book Recommendations
Susan Burton is an editor at the pubic radio program This American Life. Writer & This American Life-r. Host of THE RETRIEVALS @serial. EMPTY: A MEMOIR from @randomhouse.
The Wives: A Memoir
Simone GorrindoSusan BurtonGorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid…A military wife offers support for her husband’s work. But it is a different kind of unseen labor. What comes across powerfully in Gorrindo’s telling is the labor of accommodation and compliance.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Anissa GraySusan BurtonSo many good lists, but drawing attention to this one b/c it includes Anissa Gray's tender novel THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS, which features a rare character in fiction, a black woman in her 40s struggling with an eating disorder. https://t.co/2sGGaY6FJA
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookNotes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Lacy CrawfordSusan BurtonNOTES ON A SILENCING by @lacy_crawford is extraordinary. I stayed up late with it, underlined sentences, slowed down over it so I wouldn't get to the end. Searing, gorgeous. I'm honored to have the chance to talk to Lacy about her memoir today—7 ET/4 PT. https://t.co/p3ZQRR2dcW
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMemories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthySusan BurtonA family on a train from the West. The children start the journey with parents and end as orphans. All the talk of the 1918 flu took me back to the book that formed my first & lasting image of that epidemic, Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. https://t.co/kkRgtF28TR
Paperback, 2011
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
Selma BlairSusan BurtonElegantly expressed... Blair’s disease offers her a new way to see her past, and she uses it to define her own history.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
Maggie DohertySusan BurtonTHE EQUIVALENTS by @magsrdoherty is one of my favorite recent books and as with anything I love I wanted MORE and read this interview. https://t.co/3QK2PiptrU
Hardcover, 2020
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Inland Sea
Madeleine WattsSusan BurtonMadeleine's novel The Inland Sea will be published in the U.S. next year, and I have been badly wanting to read it ever since I saw this tweet describing @madeleine_watts as a "Millennial Helen Garner." https://t.co/Ik6QkY226k
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book