New November Nonfiction

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, & Family by Rabia Chaudry (Nov. 8th)

In this memoir, Chaudry writes astir her narration with food, notably American processed foods, that she was fed from an aboriginal age, starring household members to remark connected her value erstwhile she was arsenic young arsenic 2 years old. She besides touches connected how, astatine the aforesaid time, they disquieted astir uncovering a suitable husband. When she fell successful emotion with Pakistani foods from her heritage, she learned astir cooking with full foods and eating successful moderation. But this is much than a memoir astir nutrient and value — it’s a humorous introspection of increasing up successful a Muslim migrant family, a emotion missive to the nutrient of her culture, and a look astatine society’s expectations astir what a assemblage — a woman’s assemblage — should look like.

Maus Now: Selected Writing edited by Hillary Chute (Nov. 15th)

It’s been much than 40 years since the archetypal work of Maus, and this publication explores the interaction Maus has made connected literature, art, storytelling, adjacent curricula. It’s been lauded, debated, examined, challenged — Maus and Art Spiegelman person been forces that person contributed to the larger taste conversations. Chute brings unneurotic pieces from writers that attack Maus successful assorted ways, including translations of essays successful French, Hebrew, and German. This is simply a thought-provoking postulation of pieces that research topics that Maus touches on, and is simply a must-read if you’ve work Spiegelman’s books.

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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, translated by Anton Hur (Nov. 1st)

In this memoir-in-translation, Sehee writes astir her therapy for her depression. She’s successful, with a occupation successful publishing, and mostly hides her troubles well. Except the effort this takes is exhausting, and keeps radical from getting excessively adjacent to her. Despite her persistent hopelessness, though, she ever is capable to emotion and bask tteokbokki, a benignant of Korean thoroughfare food, a spicy atom cake. The publication covers a 12 week play of therapy, with recorded sessions, micro-essays, and self-reflections, examining her thoughts and behaviors.

Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar (Nov. 8th)

Kumar grew up astatine the feet of the Himalayas, taking for granted the quality that surrounded her. When she moved to North America arsenic a teen, she mislaid that transportation with nature, and saw however radical aided successful the demolition of it. After she moved to L.A. successful her 20s, she started to reconnect with quality done vertebrate watching. She writes astir antithetic taxon and antithetic places, and however these animals person prompted self-examination, and however they’ve changed her life.

Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture successful Appalachia screen by Emily Hilliard (Nov. 22nd)

Hilliard, erstwhile West Virginia authorities folklorist, examines folklore and “real life” successful WV, and challenges stereotypes of folklore and Appalachian civilization successful this book. She doesn’t spot the 2 arsenic old-fashioned, but instead, sees them arsenic imaginable “visionary folklore,” focusing connected collaborative enactment and community. She writes astir however folklore tin bring successful divers forms of culture, creating collaboration and unity, helping to signifier existent and aboriginal communities.

Ride oregon Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women by Shanita Hubbard (Nov. 8th)

Sociology prof and erstwhile therapist, Hubbard addresses the conception of “ride oregon die” successful this book, exploring however for galore Black women, the thought of being a “ride oregon die” idiosyncratic tin bash much harm than good, causing women to enactment disconnected their ain needs to instrumentality attraction of others’. She writes astir conversations with friends astir this topic, arsenic good arsenic her ain idiosyncratic experiences, challenging taste norms and puts distant a caller mode of looking astatine self-care.

Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by Jason McBride (Nov. 29th)

Acker was a one-of-a-kind novelist, and this archetypal full-scale authorized biography of her illustrates however visionary she was. She wrote astir capitalism, gender, sex, colonialism, and revolution, creating abstraction for extremist artists to travel aft her. McBride uses interviews, journals, correspondence, and much to make a wholly unique, insightful look astatine Acker, whose enactment remains highly applicable today.

Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy successful the Outdoors by Rue Mapp (Nov. 1st)

Mapp, the laminitis of Outdoor Afro, has enactment unneurotic a beauteous publication of photos and stories of members of Outdoor Afro and well-known Black leaders of outdoor activities, to assistance animate Black readers to reclaim their spot outdoors. Mapp besides writes essays of her ain astir activism and conservation, and provides resources for readers to get started. The individuals highlighted scope from children done elder citizens, and the joyousness successful the photos and prose is contagious.

Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing, & Changing by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (Nov 1st)

It started aft Nalebuff heard a communicative from her great-aunt — she started collecting stories of menstruation from those successful her family. But it grew to getting stories from friends and strangers, and this publication is simply a postulation of artwork, essays, and oral histories astir menstruation and everything that tin spell on with it, from radical of each ages and backgrounds. Personal experiences, what they privation they’d been told, archetypal periods to past periods — it’s each present successful this compelling publication that provides a divers array of viewpoints and voices.

The World Deserves my Children by Natasha Leggero (Nov. 15th)

Comedian Leggero got large astatine 42 aft IVF and instantly started to person each of those thoughts truthful galore of america have: what person I done? Can I bash this? What if I’m unspeakable astatine this? The satellite is simply a dumpster fire, wherefore did I bash this? This publication is simply a postulation of thought-provoking and comic essays astir “geriatric motherhood,” parenting, self-doubt, and overmuch more. Parenting is hard, but this publication reminds america that we tin laughter astir it astatine the aforesaid time.