Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day! Help us celebrate by checking out some of these terrific titles. Among our standout nonfiction this week: historian Kate Cooper's portrayal of the four "enigmatic women who helped shape the world and worldview" of St. Augustine in Queens of the Fallen World; Chita, "a showstopping retrospective" by musical theater legend Chita Rivera; and Ava Chin's "exceptional sophomore memoir," Mott Street, a follow-up to her Eating Wildly. Plus Harvest House, Cynthia Leitich Smith's "atmospheric, transfixing mystery," a companion novel to her Hearts Unbroken, and so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Claire Dederer discusses her surprise at the response to her 2017 Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?", and her further exploration of its themes in her book Monsters.