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Books narrated by Wendy Call

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  • No Word for Welcome

    The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy

    by Wendy Call ...
    Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec—the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico—for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country's “little waist,” a place long known for its strong women, spirited marketplaces, and deep sense of independence. She also landed in the middle of a ferocious ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Best Literary Translations 2024

    Series series Best Literary Translations
    Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work.Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages—including some not commonly seen in U.S. translations, such as Burmese, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

    Narrated by Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call, Shook ...
    Series series Seedbank

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telling True Stories

    A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

    Edited by Mark Kramer, Wendy Call ...
    Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

    Translated by Wendy Call, Shook ...
    The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Literary Translations 2026

    by Arthur Sze ...
    Series series Best Literary Translations
    Guest edited by National Book Award winner Arthur Sze, Best Literary Translations 2026  features poetry and prose written in languages both widely spoken and critically endangered, brought into English by some of the most talented translators working today.Compiled from over 450 submissions written in 62 original languages, the third edition of this groundbreaking annual anthology features a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater

    by Irma Pineda ...
    Translated by Wendy Call ...
    A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home.Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater / Xilase qui rié di’ sicasi rié nisa guiigu’ / La Nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ríos is a trilingual collection by one of the most prominent Indigenous poets in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Literary Translations 2025

    Series series Best Literary Translations
    Best Literary Translations redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors.Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza, Best Literary Translations 2025 features poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages, brought into English by some of the most talented translators ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Write Like You Mean It

    Mastering Your Passion for the Written Word

    by Steve Gamel ...
    "Honest, transparent, and realistic . . . His approach offers insights, advice, and sensible strategies to stop procrastinating and start writing." —Neil Foote, Principal Lecturer, Mayborn School of JournalismIn his debut title, Write Like You Mean It, award-winning journalist and content writer Steve Gamel dives into his best advice for writers that he has gathered over the years. With stories ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Iliac Crest

    Translated by Sarah Booker ...
    Surreal and gothic, The Iliac Crest is a masterful excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, illustrating the myriad ways that gendered language can wield destructive power.On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s identity. The women are strangely intimate―even inventing together an ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Autobiography of Cotton

    A Novel

    In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents’ journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas’s life in a vivid and evocative ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • AI and Creative Writing

    Edited by Graeme Harper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    AI and Creative Writing explores the transformations, risks, and possibilities that are brought about by the interaction of artificial intelligence and creative writing. Offering a variety of opinions and thoughts, this book directly considers AI’s impact on our creative writing practices. More generally, it references the impact of AI on types of human knowledge and varieties of human ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD