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📝 Lyric Essays

Essays that borrow the associative logic and imagistic intensity of poetry, moving by juxtaposition and resonance rather than linear argument.
The Book of (More) Delights
by Ross Gay • 2023
A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.
4.25
3k+
👀 Practice Of Noticing🙏 Everyday Devotion🌱 Garden As Teacher
The Book of (More) Delights Summary
The Book of (More) Delights 92%
A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.
by Ross Gay 2023
4.25
3k+ ratings
👀 Practice Of Noticing🙏 Everyday Devotion🌱 Garden As Teacher
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit • 2005
Getting lost is where transformation begins. The unknown is the destination, not the detour.
3.90
21k+
🖋️ Lyric Essay🌿 Nature Essays🗺️ Psychogeography
A Field Guide to Getting Lost Summary
A Field Guide to Getting Lost 91%
Getting lost is where transformation begins. The unknown is the destination, not the detour.
by Rebecca Solnit 2005
3.90
21k+ ratings
🖋️ Lyric Essay🌿 Nature Essays🗺️ Psychogeography
When Women Were Birds
by Terry Tempest Williams • 2012
Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.
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10k+
📖 Lyric Essay🗣️ Finding Voice🤫 Women'S Silence
When Women Were Birds Summary
When Women Were Birds 90%
Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.
by Terry Tempest Williams 2012
4.21
10k+ ratings
📖 Lyric Essay🗣️ Finding Voice🤫 Women'S Silence
Good Prose
by Tracy Kidder • 2013
Everything a Pulitzer winner and his editor know about writing nonfiction that people finish.
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1k+
📖 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ Writing Craft🖋️ Prose Style
Good Prose Summary
Good Prose 89%
Everything a Pulitzer winner and his editor know about writing nonfiction that people finish.
by Tracy Kidder 2013
3.92
1k+ ratings
📖 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ Writing Craft🖋️ Prose Style
Best American Essays 2018
by Hilton Als • 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
3.53
350
✍️ The Essay Form🖋️ Personal Essays💬 Cultural Criticism
Best American Essays 2018 Summary
Best American Essays 2018 89%
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
by Hilton Als 2018
3.53
350 ratings
✍️ The Essay Form🖋️ Personal Essays💬 Cultural Criticism
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit • 2013
The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.
4.20
8k+
📖 Literary Memoir✍️ Personal Essays🕸️ Interconnectedness
The Faraway Nearby Summary
The Faraway Nearby 89%
The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.
by Rebecca Solnit 2013
4.20
8k+ ratings
📖 Literary Memoir✍️ Personal Essays🕸️ Interconnectedness
The Anthropocene Reviewed
by John Green • 2021
From sycamores to antibiotics: a novelist rates the human age, one five-star review at a time.
4.35
182k+
📝 Personal Essays🔍 Cultural Criticism🌍 The Anthropocene
The Anthropocene Reviewed Summary
The Anthropocene Reviewed 89%
From sycamores to antibiotics: a novelist rates the human age, one five-star review at a time.
by John Green 2021
4.35
182k+ ratings
📝 Personal Essays🔍 Cultural Criticism🌍 The Anthropocene
Inciting Joy
by Ross Gay • 2022
Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.
4.13
6k+
🎁 Gift Economies🐢 Slowing Down💗 Vulnerability
Inciting Joy Summary
Inciting Joy 89%
Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.
by Ross Gay 2022
4.13
6k+ ratings
🎁 Gift Economies🐢 Slowing Down💗 Vulnerability
The Situation and the Story
by Vivian Gornick • 2001
Memoir is not the events. It is the honest self-interrogation that makes them finally matter.
3.93
3k+
🧾 Literary Memoir📝 Personal Essay🛠️ Memoir Craft
The Situation and the Story Summary
The Situation and the Story 89%
Memoir is not the events. It is the honest self-interrogation that makes them finally matter.
by Vivian Gornick 2001
3.93
3k+ ratings
🧾 Literary Memoir📝 Personal Essay🛠️ Memoir Craft
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
by Hanif Abdurraqib • 2017
A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.
4.55
19k+
🎵 Music Criticism📝 Personal Essays🖤 Black American Life
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Summary
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us 89%
A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.
by Hanif Abdurraqib 2017
4.55
19k+ ratings
🎵 Music Criticism📝 Personal Essays🖤 Black American Life
Wild Comfort
by Kathleen Dean Moore • 2010
The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.
4.12
753
🖋️ Nature Writing🌿 Environmental Essays🍂 Grief And Nature
Wild Comfort Summary
Wild Comfort 89%
The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.
by Kathleen Dean Moore 2010
4.12
753 ratings
🖋️ Nature Writing🌿 Environmental Essays🍂 Grief And Nature
The Wisdom of the Heart
by Henry Miller • 1941
Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.
4.03
663
📖 Literary Philosophy📚 Essay Collections🎨 Creative Process
The Wisdom of the Heart Summary
The Wisdom of the Heart 89%
Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.
by Henry Miller 1941
4.03
663 ratings
📖 Literary Philosophy📚 Essay Collections🎨 Creative Process
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
by Michele Filgate • 2019
Fifteen writers give voice to what they could never tell the woman who raised them.
3.74
19k+
📝 Personal Essays👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds🗝️ Family Secrets
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Summary
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About 89%
Fifteen writers give voice to what they could never tell the woman who raised them.
by Michele Filgate 2019
3.74
19k+ ratings
📝 Personal Essays👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds🗝️ Family Secrets
Uh-oh
by Robert Fulghum • 1991
Life's philosophy lives inside your refrigerator door and in the first sound you ever made.
4.13
3k+
🧠 Everyday Philosophy✍️ Personal Essays✨ Finding Wonder
Uh-oh Summary
Uh-oh 89%
Life's philosophy lives inside your refrigerator door and in the first sound you ever made.
by Robert Fulghum 1991
4.13
3k+ ratings
🧠 Everyday Philosophy✍️ Personal Essays✨ Finding Wonder
Several Short Sentences About Writing
by Verlyn Klinkenborg • 2012
Writing isn't about flow or formulas; it's about one clear sentence, then another.
4.13
4k+
✍️ Writing Advice🔤 Sentence Craft📖 Reading Like A Writer
Several Short Sentences About Writing Summary
Several Short Sentences About Writing 88%
Writing isn't about flow or formulas; it's about one clear sentence, then another.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg 2012
4.13
4k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Advice🔤 Sentence Craft📖 Reading Like A Writer
The Writing Life
by Annie Dillard • 1989
The work leads, the writer follows, and most of what you write must be destroyed.
3.98
18k+
🖋️ Literary Craft✍️ Writing Process📖 Author Memoirs
The Writing Life Summary
The Writing Life 88%
The work leads, the writer follows, and most of what you write must be destroyed.
by Annie Dillard 1989
3.98
18k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Craft✍️ Writing Process📖 Author Memoirs
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver • 2002
A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.
4.03
11k+
🍃 Nature Writing🌍 Environmental Ethics🌱 Sustainable Living
Small Wonder Summary
Small Wonder 88%
A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.
by Barbara Kingsolver 2002
4.03
11k+ ratings
🍃 Nature Writing🌍 Environmental Ethics🌱 Sustainable Living
Draft No. 4
by John McPhee • 2013
How a New Yorker writer earns every sentence: drafts, checking, silence, and a dictionary.
4.09
4k+
📝 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ The Revision Process🏗️ Narrative Structure
Draft No. 4 Summary
Draft No. 4 88%
How a New Yorker writer earns every sentence: drafts, checking, silence, and a dictionary.
by John McPhee 2013
4.09
4k+ ratings
📝 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ The Revision Process🏗️ Narrative Structure
The Art of the Poetic Line
by James Longenbach • 2007
The 'line break' is a misnomer. A poet-critic reveals what actually happens where lines end.
4.03
694
🛠️ Poetic Craft🎵 Prosody🔍 Close Reading
The Art of the Poetic Line Summary
The Art of the Poetic Line 88%
The 'line break' is a misnomer. A poet-critic reveals what actually happens where lines end.
by James Longenbach 2007
4.03
694 ratings
🛠️ Poetic Craft🎵 Prosody🔍 Close Reading
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman • 2003
Your Saved by the Bell reruns taught you more about love than Jane Austen.
3.74
73k+
🎭 Pop Culture Criticism✍️ Personal Essays🎵 Music Criticism
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Summary
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs 88%
Your Saved by the Bell reruns taught you more about love than Jane Austen.
by Chuck Klosterman 2003
3.74
73k+ ratings
🎭 Pop Culture Criticism✍️ Personal Essays🎵 Music Criticism
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Fourth Edition
by Harvard Crimson • 2005
Get inside the admissions reader's head. Fifty real Harvard essays, dissected line by line.
3.89
243
🎓 College Admissions✍️ Application Essays📖 Personal Storytelling
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Fourth Edition Summary
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Fourth Edition 88%
Get inside the admissions reader's head. Fifty real Harvard essays, dissected line by line.
by Harvard Crimson 2005
3.89
243 ratings
🎓 College Admissions✍️ Application Essays📖 Personal Storytelling
The Empathy Exams
by Leslie Jamison • 2014
Empathy isn't a feeling but a practice, and these essays examine what it demands of us.
3.67
16k+
📝 Personal Essays📰 Literary Journalism🩺 Medical Humanities
The Empathy Exams Summary
The Empathy Exams 88%
Empathy isn't a feeling but a practice, and these essays examine what it demands of us.
by Leslie Jamison 2014
3.67
16k+ ratings
📝 Personal Essays📰 Literary Journalism🩺 Medical Humanities
Body Work
by Melissa Febos • 2022
Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.
4.22
6k+
🖋️ Memoir Writing🩹 Writing Therapy✍️ Feminist Criticism
Body Work Summary
Body Work 88%
Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.
by Melissa Febos 2022
4.22
6k+ ratings
🖋️ Memoir Writing🩹 Writing Therapy✍️ Feminist Criticism
Paranoia
by Shirley Jackson • 2015
A stranger's hat, a fork's grudge: how Shirley Jackson turned daily unease into lasting horror.
4.05
4k+
✍️ Writing Craft📝 Literary Essays🏠 Domestic Life
Paranoia Summary
Paranoia 88%
A stranger's hat, a fork's grudge: how Shirley Jackson turned daily unease into lasting horror.
by Shirley Jackson 2015
4.05
4k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📝 Literary Essays🏠 Domestic Life
The Language of the Night
by Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979
Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.
4.28
2k+
✍️ Writing Craft📝 Essays On Writing🐉 Genre Fiction Defense
The Language of the Night Summary
The Language of the Night 88%
Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.
by Ursula K. Le Guin 1979
4.28
2k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📝 Essays On Writing🐉 Genre Fiction Defense
Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps
by Alan Gelb • 2013
A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.
3.66
154
📝 College Admissions📄 Application Essays📖 Narrative Writing
Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps Summary
Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps 88%
A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.
by Alan Gelb 2013
3.66
154 ratings
📝 College Admissions📄 Application Essays📖 Narrative Writing
The Art of Intimacy
by Stacey D'Erasmo • 2013
Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.
3.93
248
🎓 Literary Criticism✍️ Craft Of Fiction🗣️ Narrative Voice
The Art of Intimacy Summary
The Art of Intimacy 88%
Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.
by Stacey D'Erasmo 2013
3.93
248 ratings
🎓 Literary Criticism✍️ Craft Of Fiction🗣️ Narrative Voice
Writing Better Lyrics
by Pat Pattison • 1995
Seven senses, zero clichés, and the structural secret that makes a chorus land harder each time.
4.22
1k+
🎵 Lyric Writing🖼️ Showing Vs Telling🏗️ Song Structure
Writing Better Lyrics Summary
Writing Better Lyrics 88%
Seven senses, zero clichés, and the structural secret that makes a chorus land harder each time.
by Pat Pattison 1995
4.22
1k+ ratings
🎵 Lyric Writing🖼️ Showing Vs Telling🏗️ Song Structure
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
by Robert Fulghum • 1989
Life is a burning bed, a child's paper sack, and a mirror fragment reflecting light.
4.10
6k+
✍️ Personal Essays😂 Observational Humor🌟 Everyday Wonder
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It Summary
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It 88%
Life is a burning bed, a child's paper sack, and a mirror fragment reflecting light.
by Robert Fulghum 1989
4.10
6k+ ratings
✍️ Personal Essays😂 Observational Humor🌟 Everyday Wonder
These Precious Days
by Ann Patchett • 2021
Tom Hanks's assistant visited for a weekend. Cancer and a pandemic kept her there for months.
4.42
48k+
📝 Personal Essays⏳ Facing Mortality🎨 Creative Healing
These Precious Days Summary
These Precious Days 88%
Tom Hanks's assistant visited for a weekend. Cancer and a pandemic kept her there for months.
by Ann Patchett 2021
4.42
48k+ ratings
📝 Personal Essays⏳ Facing Mortality🎨 Creative Healing
O's Little Book of Love & Friendship
by The Oprah Magazine O • 2016
Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.
3.63
242
🫂 Female Friendship🏠 Chosen Family💔 Love And Loss
O's Little Book of Love & Friendship Summary
O's Little Book of Love & Friendship 88%
Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.
by The Oprah Magazine O 2016
3.63
242 ratings
🫂 Female Friendship🏠 Chosen Family💔 Love And Loss
The Triggering Town
by Richard Hugo • 1978
Poems don't record feelings; they discover them. Abandon the facts and follow the sound.
4.17
3k+
✍️ Poetry Craft🏫 Teaching Poetry🎶 Sound And Rhythm
The Triggering Town Summary
The Triggering Town 88%
Poems don't record feelings; they discover them. Abandon the facts and follow the sound.
by Richard Hugo 1978
4.17
3k+ ratings
✍️ Poetry Craft🏫 Teaching Poetry🎶 Sound And Rhythm
Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou • 1987
Her life counsel on courage, honesty, and grace, addressed to the daughters she never had.
4.09
35k+
📜 Personal Essays🙏 Spiritual Memoir🌱 Gratitude Practice
Letter to My Daughter Summary
Letter to My Daughter 88%
Her life counsel on courage, honesty, and grace, addressed to the daughters she never had.
by Maya Angelou 1987
4.09
35k+ ratings
📜 Personal Essays🙏 Spiritual Memoir🌱 Gratitude Practice
A Circle of Quiet
by Madeleine L'Engle • 1971
A farmhouse, a brook, an hour of silence: what a writer found when she finally stopped.
4.21
7k+
🖊️ Writing Life🙏 Contemplative Faith🎨 Creative Process
A Circle of Quiet Summary
A Circle of Quiet 88%
A farmhouse, a brook, an hour of silence: what a writer found when she finally stopped.
by Madeleine L'Engle 1971
4.21
7k+ ratings
🖊️ Writing Life🙏 Contemplative Faith🎨 Creative Process
Borges on Writing
by Jorge Luis Borges • 1973
Plausibility trumps truth, short stories hinge on a situation, and great poems arrive unbidden.
4.07
1k+
📝 Literary Craft🎻 Poetry Craft🌐 Translation Studies
Borges on Writing Summary
Borges on Writing 88%
Plausibility trumps truth, short stories hinge on a situation, and great poems arrive unbidden.
by Jorge Luis Borges 1973
4.07
1k+ ratings
📝 Literary Craft🎻 Poetry Craft🌐 Translation Studies
The Deadline
by Jill Lepore • 2023
The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.
4.31
621
🏛️ Cultural History📚 Essay Collections📰 Media Criticism
The Deadline Summary
The Deadline 88%
The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.
by Jill Lepore 2023
4.31
621 ratings
🏛️ Cultural History📚 Essay Collections📰 Media Criticism
This Is Me Letting You Go
by Heidi Priebe • 2016
Perfect timing is a convenient lie: how to let go, forgive, and bet on yourself.
4.03
13k+
💔 Heartbreak Recovery🧩 Self-Acceptance🚪 Relationship Endings
This Is Me Letting You Go Summary
This Is Me Letting You Go 88%
Perfect timing is a convenient lie: how to let go, forgive, and bet on yourself.
by Heidi Priebe 2016
4.03
13k+ ratings
💔 Heartbreak Recovery🧩 Self-Acceptance🚪 Relationship Endings
Tunesmith
by Jimmy Webb • 1998
Hit songwriter reveals what the craft demands: a broken heart, a thesaurus, and no shortcuts.
4.01
551
🎵 Songwriting Craft💔 Creative Emotion✍️ The Writing Life
Tunesmith Summary
Tunesmith 88%
Hit songwriter reveals what the craft demands: a broken heart, a thesaurus, and no shortcuts.
by Jimmy Webb 1998
4.01
551 ratings
🎵 Songwriting Craft💔 Creative Emotion✍️ The Writing Life
The Comfort of Crows
by Margaret Renkl • 2023
One suburban yard across four seasons: grief, fox kits, and the wisdom of letting things grow wild.
4.16
15k+
🏡 Backyard Naturalism📅 Seasonal Nature Writing👁️ Attention As Practice
The Comfort of Crows Summary
The Comfort of Crows 88%
One suburban yard across four seasons: grief, fox kits, and the wisdom of letting things grow wild.
by Margaret Renkl 2023
4.16
15k+ ratings
🏡 Backyard Naturalism📅 Seasonal Nature Writing👁️ Attention As Practice
Nonconformity
by Nelson Algren • 1996
Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.
4.07
268
✍️ The Writing Life🎯 Artistic Integrity🔍 Social Criticism
Nonconformity Summary
Nonconformity 88%
Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.
by Nelson Algren 1996
4.07
268 ratings
✍️ The Writing Life🎯 Artistic Integrity🔍 Social Criticism
Aftermath
by Rachel Cusk • 2012
A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.
3.67
4k+
💔 Divorce Memoirs👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs📝 Personal Essays
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath 88%
A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.
by Rachel Cusk 2012
3.67
4k+ ratings
💔 Divorce Memoirs👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs📝 Personal Essays
Not Quite What I Was Planning
by Larry Smith • 2008
Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.
3.89
3k+
📝 Flash Memoir✍️ Writing Prompts🔗 Creative Constraints
Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary
Not Quite What I Was Planning 88%
Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.
by Larry Smith 2008
3.89
3k+ ratings
📝 Flash Memoir✍️ Writing Prompts🔗 Creative Constraints
Monsters
by Claire Dederer • 2023
Our favorite art was made by awful people. A critic's personal, unresolved struggle with that fact.
3.68
23k+
🎨 Art Criticism🗣️ Cultural Criticism📝 Essay Collections
Monsters Summary
Monsters 88%
Our favorite art was made by awful people. A critic's personal, unresolved struggle with that fact.
by Claire Dederer 2023
3.68
23k+ ratings
🎨 Art Criticism🗣️ Cultural Criticism📝 Essay Collections
The Poet's Guide to Life
by Rainer Maria Rilke • 2005
Rilke's letters become a field guide: how to turn solitude and loss into a deeper life.
4.12
368
📜 Wisdom Literature✉️ Letter Collections🧘 Solitude
The Poet's Guide to Life Summary
The Poet's Guide to Life 88%
Rilke's letters become a field guide: how to turn solitude and loss into a deeper life.
by Rainer Maria Rilke 2005
4.12
368 ratings
📜 Wisdom Literature✉️ Letter Collections🧘 Solitude
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard • 1974
A year beside one creek reveals a world where grace and violence are the same water.
4.08
30k+
🍃 Nature Writing👁️ Ways Of Seeing🌿 American Transcendentalism
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Summary
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 88%
A year beside one creek reveals a world where grace and violence are the same water.
by Annie Dillard 1974
4.08
30k+ ratings
🍃 Nature Writing👁️ Ways Of Seeing🌿 American Transcendentalism
Read Dangerously
by Azar Nafisi • 2022
Why reading a novel can be more dangerous to a regime than marching in the street.
4.04
2k+
📝 Literary Criticism🗳️ Political Essays📚 Book Censorship
Read Dangerously Summary
Read Dangerously 88%
Why reading a novel can be more dangerous to a regime than marching in the street.
by Azar Nafisi 2022
4.04
2k+ ratings
📝 Literary Criticism🗳️ Political Essays📚 Book Censorship
Imagine a City
by Mark Vanhoenacker • 2022
A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.
3.65
422
🏙️ Urban Travel Writing✈️ Aviation Memoirs🧭 Sense Of Place
Imagine a City Summary
Imagine a City 88%
A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.
by Mark Vanhoenacker 2022
3.65
422 ratings
🏙️ Urban Travel Writing✈️ Aviation Memoirs🧭 Sense Of Place
A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver • 1994
The teachable half of poetry: a master poet's craft rules for turning feeling into durable art.
4.23
10k+
🖋️ Writing Poetry🏛️ Poetic Form🌄 The Writing Life
A Poetry Handbook Summary
A Poetry Handbook 88%
The teachable half of poetry: a master poet's craft rules for turning feeling into durable art.
by Mary Oliver 1994
4.23
10k+ ratings
🖋️ Writing Poetry🏛️ Poetic Form🌄 The Writing Life
Books vs. Cigarettes
by George Orwell • 1946
A dusty bookshop, a public ward, a totalitarian state: Orwell's unsparing truth in each.
3.83
9k+
📚 Book Culture✍️ Literary Criticism📖 Bookshop Memoirs
Books vs. Cigarettes Summary
Books vs. Cigarettes 88%
A dusty bookshop, a public ward, a totalitarian state: Orwell's unsparing truth in each.
by George Orwell 1946
3.83
9k+ ratings
📚 Book Culture✍️ Literary Criticism📖 Bookshop Memoirs
One in a Millennial
by Kate Kennedy • 2024
The MySpace top eight was a leaderboard, not a friend list, and she played to win.
3.70
21k+
💿 Millennial Memoir📺 Pop Culture Criticism🧠 Mental Health Memoir
One in a Millennial Summary
One in a Millennial 88%
The MySpace top eight was a leaderboard, not a friend list, and she played to win.
by Kate Kennedy 2024
3.70
21k+ ratings
💿 Millennial Memoir📺 Pop Culture Criticism🧠 Mental Health Memoir
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