Full name: Known and Strange Things: Essays

Author: Teju Cole Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction, Art, History, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780812989786 0812989783

The 40-plus essays will span art, literature, and politics, with topics from Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin to President Obama and Boko Haram. The collection will include pre-published essays that have gone viral, like "The White Industrial Savior Complex," first published in The Atlantic. Similar books: Wormholes by John Fowles The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio In Favor of the Sensitive Man by Anais Nin On Looking by Lia Purpura At the Same Time by Susan Sontag When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker Vintage Didion by Joan Didion The Rub of Time by Martin Amis Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker The American Spirit by David McCullough And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar The Heart That Bleeds by Alma Guillermoprieto