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The Facebook revolution has given rise to a new art form, the digital essay. At the forefront, Jeff Nunokawa and his Note Book (Princeton)—elegant missives that will turn haters into lovers. Also this month: Kate Bolick cheers on single-bychoice American women in Spinster (Crown). Pioneering rock critic Richard Goldstein relives the 60s in Another Little Piece of My Heart (Bloomsbury). Peter Coyote'sThe Rainman’s Third Cure (Counterpoint) meditates on his mentors and his Zen path. Jamie Brickhouse plunges into his dark days of boozing in Dangerous When Wet (St. Martin’s). Kate Atkinson reconnects with characters from Life After Life in its companion novel, A God in Rians (Little, Brown). Self-appointed patriots avenge the victims of the Armenian genocide in Eric Bogosian'sOperation Nemesis (Little, Brown). Debut novelist Andrew Roe ponders transcendence with The Miracle Girl (Algonquin). Entrepreneur Christian Hageseth rolls Big Weed (Palgrave Macmillan), blazing back to his heady trip through the legal bud business. An illegal organ broker gets into a spot of bother in Brian DeLeeuw's unnerving novel The Dismantling (Plume). Jon Macks surfs the history of late-night TV in Monologue (Blue Rider). Devoted pen pals Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda pledge, I Will Always Write Back (Little, Brown), with Liz Welch. Tight-lipped reporter Judith Miller speaks in The Story (Simon & Schuster). Tom Devlin showcases a quartercentury of Drawn and Quarterly (Drawn & Quarterly). Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus recount their agonizing decade in captivity, and their escape, in Hope (Viking). Louise Troh, the fiancee of the first man to die of Ebola in America, grieves in My Spirit Took You In (Weinstein). Taylor Antrim'sImmunity (Regan Arts) is a dystopian stab at New York City’s ultra-rich. Childhood hell-raiser Christopher Byron runs wild in Tales from Bluewater Hill (Significance Press). Joseph E. Stiglitz seeks to bridge The Great Divide (Norton) between our nation’s haves and have-nots. Sensational story writer Amelia Gray hits the mark with Gutshot (FSG Originals). Michael Clinton shows off his travel pics in Closer (Glitterati). Cleary Wolters frees fact from fiction in Out of Orange (HarperOne). Fern Mallis'sFashion Lives (Rizzoli) command center stage. A cavalcade of pioneers, star chasers, and misfits parade through Cari Beauchamp'sMy First Time in Hollywood (Asahina & Wallace). Barry Estabrook carves up the other white meat in Pig Tales (Norton). A. Brad Schwartz tunes into 1930s America’s Broadcast Hysteria (Hill and Wang). Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. updates The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (Steidl). Gillian Zoe Segal'sGetting There (Abrams Image) corners dream mentors—including our own editor, Graydon Carter—for life-changing, real-world advice. Read more. Read better.

ELISSA SCHAPPELL