{"product_id":"wanting-women-writing-about-desire-9781646220113","title":"Wanting: Women Writing about Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in whip-smart, sensuous prose, with pieces by Tara Conklin, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and others\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the opening essay, Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest's desire for a pair of five-hundred-dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history of her hometown. Other pieces in the collection turn cultural tropes around dating, sex, and romance on their heads--Angela Cardinale tries dating as a divorced mother of two in the California suburbs only to discover sweet solace in being alone; Keyanah B. Nurse finds power in polyamory; and when Joanna Rakoff spots a former lover at a bar, the heat between them unravels her family as she is pulled into his orbit--an undoing, she decides, that's worth everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding pieces by Tara Conklin, Torrey Peters, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and so many others, these candid and insightful essays tackle the complicated knot of women's desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing essays by Elisa Albert, Kristen Arnett, Molly McCully Brown, Angela Cardinale, Tara Conklin, Sonia Maria David, Jennifer De Leon, Camille T. Dungy, Melissa Febos, Amber Flame, Amy Gall, Aracelis Girmay, Sonora Jha, Nicole Hardy, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, TaraShea Nesbit, Keyanah B. Nurse, Torrey Peters, Amanda Petrusich, Larissa Pham, Rena Priest, Joanna Rakoff, Karen Russell, Domenica Ruta, Susan Shapiro, Terese Svoboda, Lisa Taddeo, Ann Tashi Slater, Abigail Thomas, Merritt Tierce, Michelle Wildgen, Jane Wong, and Teresa Wong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARGOT KAHN \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of Horses \u003ci\u003eThat Buck\u003c\/i\u003e, the biography of world-champion rodeo cowboy \"Cody\" Bill Smith, and a collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eA Quiet Day with the West on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. She is coeditor, along with Kelly McMasters, of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice anthology \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Place: Women Writing About Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and her essays and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus, Lenny Letter, Publishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBust\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. An Ohio native, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKELLY McMASTERS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Leaving Season: A Memoir \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town\u003c\/i\u003e, the basis for the documentary film \u003ci\u003eThe Atomic States of America\u003c\/i\u003e. She is coeditor, along with Margot Kahn, of \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Place: Women Writing About Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and her essays and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, The American Scholar, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e. McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner living in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629135401234,"sku":"9781646220113","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08f67756-74cf-4570-9fe7-2652032700ee.jpg?v=1732721698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wanting-women-writing-about-desire-9781646220113","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}