Last Words from Montmartre (Paperback)

By Qiu Miaojin, Ari Larissa Heinrich (Translated by), Ari Larissa Heinrich (Afterword by)

$15.95

Last Words from Montmarte is a slow burn, unfolding over a series of letters through which the narrator processes her grief after a traumatic breakup. The fragments of her memory function both as a weapon and a prism of clarity, ultimately allowing her to transcend her suffering. The result is a shockingly cathartic depiction of depression and a timeless portrait of the artist.

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work (Library of America James Baldwin Edition #1) (Hardcover)

By James Baldwin, Toni Morrison (Editor)

$37.50

No better $35 can be spent for a book in this country than this collection of James Baldwin's collected non-fiction - what were published as five books, from Notes of a Native Son through The Devil Finds Work, with a selection of essays not previously collected included. Timely in their day, this writing feels prophetically and astoundingly true to today, soaring, seeing, telling what needs to be seen and told. This, thirty years after James Baldwin's passing. His fiction, published in two accompanying Library of America volumes, to be read and known, too. A great gift to give to another - or to yourself.