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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Literature professor Nafisi has produced an original work in which she weaves together literary criticism, social history, and memoir. |
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Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde
by Brad Dimock
An investigation into the true story of Glen and Bessie Hyde’s tragic honeymoon trip down the Colorado River in the 1920s, including the author’s re-enactment of the couple’s route. A great companion piece with the fictional version of the story Grand Ambition. |
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A Room of One’s Own
by Virginia Woolf
Woolf defines the key conditions for nurturing female literary genius: money and privacy. |
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
by Martha Summerhayes
Summerhayes recounted her experiences at various army posts, focusing on an 1870s stint in Arizona and produced one of the essential primary accounts of the frontier-military West. |
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A Sand County
Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
This classic environmental treatise on man’s responsibility and role in nature includes the well-known piece, "The Land Ethic." |
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Wildfire: A Reader
edited by Alianor True
Wildfire fighter True has gathered a rich collection of literary essays on wildfire in America, from native creation myths to stories by Edward Abbey, John Muir, and Mark Twain. |
