The Empathy Exams
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was pai…
If you like book The Empathy Exams here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
-
-
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
Buy this book on Amazon
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and… -
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schiz…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Pulphead
In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thomp…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Boys of My Youth
Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book,…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences—“a must read for anybody shoving a pen across paper…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Grief Is for People
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this disarmingly witty and poignant memoir.
Buy this book on Amazon
Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspense… -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain
Buy this book on Amazon
At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, w…