Books like The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson
12 books with a reading profile close to The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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Mortality
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir
Christopher Hitchens chronicles his final eighteen months following a stage four esophageal cancer diagnosis.
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Intimations
by Zadie Smith
Also deep · philosophy, memoir
Written during the early months of the 2020 pandemic, this collection consists of six essays that analyze the sudden contraction of physical space and the expansion of internal reflection.
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The House of the Dead
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir
Alexandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Siberia for uxoricide, narrates his daily existence within a communal prison barracks.
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De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir
Written during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde’s long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas details the emotional and financial ruin resulting from their relationship.
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WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir
Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgical resident nearing the end of his decade-long training when he was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.
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Between the World and Me
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir
Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates frames the black body as the central site of American history and civic stability.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Set in a luxury Parisian apartment building, the story follows Renée Michel, a fifty-four-year-old concierge who hides her deep knowledge of Kant, Tolstoy, and art behind a facade of working-class dullness.
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Also inward-looking · philosophy, memoir
Donald Miller presents a collection of essays documenting his personal shift from structured, legalistic Christianity to a more organic faith.
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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
In 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered in Mexico City by an ex-boyfriend who refused to accept the end of their relationship.
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Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
philosophy, memoir
Roxane Gay uses this collection of essays to analyze the contradictions between feminist ideology and contemporary pop culture.
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Letters to Milena
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
Franz Kafka’s correspondence with Milena Jesenská begins as a professional exchange regarding the translation of his prose into Czech but quickly pivots into a private record of obsessive emotional attachment.
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