First, the transitions are so mechanical: panel-to-panel and page-to-page, so you can edit story like film or collage. What did you learn from working in the graphic novel and coloring book mediums these past years? Comics rock in so many ways. We talked with him recently about Adjustment Day (Norton, $26.95), his first novel in four years. Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a BookwormĬhuck Palahniuk is the author of more than 17 fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Rant and, most recently, Make Something Up. Though each of these women writes about a different time, a different place, and a different topic, they are all, as Williams might say, finding their song-remembering what might be forgotten, and celebrating what is remembered in the process. Margaux Bergen's Navigating Life (Penguin Press, $26) is ostensibly a collection of advice from mother to daughter, but is as introspective as it is instructive. Jessa Crispin's The Dead Ladies Project (University of Chicago Press, $16) is an autobiographical exploration of the lives of women writers who scrapped their conventional lives for something new and different. Following the sudden death of her father, Macdonald adopts a goshawk and spends months training it-and grieving. In her memoir, H Is for Hawk (Grove, $16), Helen Macdonald offers a similarly lyrical reflection on life (and death) and grief and healing. The tradition of reflective, personal writing does not stop with Williams or Oliver.
Though Oliver is most frequently recognized for her poetry, the essays in Upstream (Penguin Press, $26) offer celebratory meditations on work, art, nature and place-and the intersections of each. Mary Oliver, like Williams, is known for her reflections on nature and our place within it.
Though the collection covers heavy topics and difficult subjects, it is ultimately a celebration of the world with its many flaws and quiet moments of beauty. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." Terry Tempest Williams takes her own words to heart in When Women Were Birds (Picador, $17), a kind of personal-memoir-turned-essay-collection in which she explores the deeply personal (the loss of her mother, reflections on her Mormon upbringing, anecdotes from her marriage) and the universal (finding one's voice, especially as a woman). "Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was a simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy.
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