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Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes listeners on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media, and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman.

A powerful and intimate essay collection of gratitude, and an essential, enduring love letter to the queer community in which contemporary queer icons pay homage to those who helped pave their paths.

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book for her eighteenth birthday. In short, honest letters, Burriesci teaches his daughter about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life.

Richard Wagamese, one of Canada's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.

Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth.

When comedy writer Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words, she turned to a therapist, who suggested she write down some of her worries. But instead, Georgia wrote this book on living, and thriving, with anxiety.

In this candid and curious essay collection, Jonathan takes a thoughtful, in-depth look at timely topics through the lens of his own personal experience. These stories speak to doing the work to challenge internalized beliefs, finding compassion and confidence, and learning more about what makes us all so messy and gorgeous.

Jessi Klein explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood, and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.

Ali Wentworth shares the absurd and sometimes trying moments that got her and her family through the pandemic, and their experience with the disease that has affected millions of lives.

Veronique Hyland takes aim at the institutions within the fashion industry while reminding us of the importance of dress and what it means for self-presentation. Everything from societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of women's rights to the hidden motivations behind what we choose to wear to align ourselves with a particular social group can be tracked through clothing.