This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett | 
Something to Declare
by Julia Alvarez | 
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel
by Alexander Chee | 
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
by Megan Stielstra | 
My Misspent Youth
by Meghan Daum | 
The Professor and Other Writings
by Terry Castle | 
Learning to Drive
by Katha Pollitt | 
My Heart Is an Idiot
by Davy Rothbart | 
The Unspeakable
by Meghan Daum | 
Teaching a Stone to Talk
by Annie Dillard | 
Wallflower at the Orgy
by Nora Ephron |
Alibis
by Andre Aciman | 
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
by Samantha Irby | 
New Ways to Kill Your Mother
by Colm Toibin | 
The Disappointment Artist
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Marking the Sparrow's Fall
by Wallace Stegner | 
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
by Wallace Stegner | 
The Gathering of Zion
by Wallace Stegner | 
Mormon Country
by Wallace Stegner | 
The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich |
Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writer's own "migrant childhood" to the need to protect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs "the geography of hope") to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists.