Essays Winner: Trick Mirror
"Back in 2017, Jia Tolentino declared the personal essay dead. But two years is an eternity online, and the medium Tolentino decried as sensationalist clickbait is now thriving with humanity and intellectual rigor. Is it a coincidence that today’s most provocative essayists are women—especially women whose skin, bodies, and minds have historically been sidelined?
This year brought fascinating collections from Esmé Weijun Wang, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Lindy West, each spoken in the writer's own voice. These incisive explorations of mental illness, beauty, gender, and politics establish an authoritative canon that resonates even louder together. The final work of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison was one of the most precious gifts of 2019, with the added polish of Bahni Turpin’s delivery.
As for Tolentino, no one dissects our exhausting and Extremely Online
era faster or with such electric relatability. From divine encounters with drugs to scammer culture and the distracting refractions of self the Internet spits back at us, Trick Mirror is about as blistering a refute to Tolentino’s proclamation as you can find. Fans may be clamoring for a novel, but her essays are an essential answer to our times." —Kat, Audible Editor
Best of Essays: Four More
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Thick
- And Other Essays
- De: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Narrado por: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A different perspective
- De ANNE en 08-13-19
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The Witches Are Coming
- De: Lindy West
- Narrado por: Lindy West
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,175
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,901
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,889
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: This is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times best-selling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill Lindy West turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts strong then wanders
- De Dawn en 01-09-20
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- De: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrado por: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 917
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 805
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. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration way too slow
- De Diane en 04-27-19
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshing thoughts
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-19
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Thick
- And Other Essays
- De: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Narrado por: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A different perspective
- De ANNE en 08-13-19
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The Witches Are Coming
- De: Lindy West
- Narrado por: Lindy West
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,175
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,901
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,889
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: This is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times best-selling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill Lindy West turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts strong then wanders
- De Dawn en 01-09-20
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- De: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrado por: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 917
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 805
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. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration way too slow
- De Diane en 04-27-19
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshing thoughts
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-19