Incoming Resources
- The art of the wasted day, Patricia Hampl
- Because you have to, a writing life, Joan Frank
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- Backward ran sentences, the best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker, Wolcott Gibbs ; foreword by P.J. O'Rourke ; edited and introduced by Thomas Vinciguerra
- This old man, all in pieces, Roger Angell
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Stories I forgot to tell you, Dorothy Gallagher
- The rooms we make our own, Toni Mirosevich
- Ralph Ellison, a biography, Arnold Rampersad
- Gore Vidal, sexually speaking, collected sex writings, Donald Weise, editor
- Helping me help myself, one skeptic, ten self-help Gurus, and a year on the brink of the comfort zone, Beth Lisick
- Baldwin's Harlem, a biography of James Baldwin, Herb Boyd
- The heart of a woman, Maya Angelou
- Running in the family, Michael Ondaatje
- Me and my house, James Baldwin's last decade in France, Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- A Bernadette Mayer reader
- The Gloria Anzaldúa reader, Gloria E. Anzaldúa ; AnaLouise Keating, editor
- It calls you back, an odyssey through love, addiction, revolutions, and healing, Luis J. Rodríguez
- Tabula rasa, John McPhee
- James Baldwin's Turkish decade, erotics of exile, Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- In search of our mothers' gardens, womanist prose, by Alice Walker
- The double life is twice as good, Jonathan Ames
- Reborn, journals and notebooks, 1947-1963, by Susan Sontag ; edited by David Rieff
- James Baldwin, artist on fire : a portrait, by W.J. Weatherby
- Gary in your pocket, stories and notebooks of Gary Fisher, edited with an afterword by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ; introduction by Don Belton
- Irma, the education of a mother's son, Terry McDonell
- An American childhood, Annie Dillard
- To hell with it, of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dante's entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno, Dinty W. Moore
- A song flung up to heaven, Maya Angelou
- Set fire to the stars
- Working, researching, interviewing, writing, Robert A. Caro
- The evidence of things not said, James Baldwin and the promise of American democracy, Lawrie Balfour
- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- This old man, all in pieces, Roger Angell
- Public speaking, HBO Documentary Films ; American Express Portraits present in association with Consolidated Documentaries and Sikelia Productions ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; produced by Graydon Carter, Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese ; producer, Margaret Bodde
- Yokohama threeway, and other small shames, Beth Lisick
- The scandal of Susan Sontag, edited by Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
- The Annie Dillard reader, A.D
- Bite hard, Justin Chin
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Unsolaced, along the way to all that is, Gretel Ehrlich
- Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings, edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom
- Hard to be a saint in the city, the spiritual vision of the Beats, edited with an introduction by Robert Inchausti
- Home is the road, wandering the land, shaping the spirit, Diane Glancy
- Blue arabesque, a search for the sublime, Patricia Hampl
- Good bones and simple murders, Margaret Atwood
- Life among the savages, Shirley Jackson
- Everybody into the pool, true tales, Beth Lisick
- The autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka
- Readings on Maya Angelou, Mary E. Williams, book editor