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       Praise for Sallie Tisdale

      A Buddhist woman who’s written about porn. Do you really need another reason to read her?

       JULIA LIPSCOMB, Inlander

       Violation: Collected Essays

      Sallie Tisdale’s Violation is a writer’s bible and a reader’s best friend. Bold and wise, galvanizing and grounding, Tisdale’s essays are propulsive and frightening in their poignance and content. This is the essay collection you’ll want to have with you on that hypothetical desert island.

       CHLOE CALDWELL, author of Legs Get Led Astray and Women

      Sallie Tisdale possesses one of the most companionable and inquisitive voices in contemporary American nonfiction. She is guided by a restless, humane intelligence. And her range! Who else can write about Moray eels and obscene phone calls, about the harrowing work of firefighters and the dreamy effects of laughing gas, all the while unearthing the deeper meanings of the world around us? Mortality, desire, love, loss: these are Tisdale’s underlying subjects, and in Violation, she brings them to life with bracing clarity and unfailing insight.

       BERNARD COOPER, author of The Bill From My Father

      Sallie Tisdale is the real thing, a writer who thinks like a philosopher, observes like a journalist, and sings on the page like a poet; in other words, the consummate and perfect essayist. She knocked my socks off when I first discovered her decades ago, and now, reading this collection, I realize I haven’t found them since. Violation contains important work from an important writer. I’m so glad it’s out in the world.

       MEGHAN DAUM, author of The Unspeakable: and Other Subjects of Discussion

      That Sallie Tisdale’s a treasure comes as no secret to lovers of the essay, and yet this happy gathering that spans the decades is revelatory, a fascinating look at the epic wanderings of a life mapped by curiosity. Here we get elephants and houseflies, diets and fires, birth and the debris of death, all the mixed and messy vitality of family life. We travel far and we travel wide, but in the end we circle home to Tisdale herself, vulnerable and available, intimate and encouraging, our guide and our friend, her questioning presence lighting the way and celebrating it all, every little step in life’s saga, one lovely sentence at a time.

       CHARLES D’AMBROSIO, author of Loitering: New and Collected Essays

      In essay, memoir, and literary journalism, Sallie Tisdale writes with fierce and finely tuned attention to what she calls “ordinary things, the journey of grime and wonder through the world.” Abortion, elephants, female identity, family history, eating and dieting, her Buddhist view of living and dying, her work as an oncology nurse, the ethics of writing nonfiction – whatever her focus, she is never content with an easy resolution or anything less than the most nuanced, most honest, most finely crafted account she is capable of. Readers may not always agree with her, but they will know they’ve been in the company of an articulate intelligence thinking out loud in graceful and incisive prose.

       JOHN DANIEL, author of Rogue River Journal and Looking After

      I read Sallie Tisdale and within a few sentences, I am under her spell. It matters not whether she’s writing about the tyranny of weight loss, the startling lives of blow flies, or what it’s like to work in an oncology ward (she is a dedicated nurse as well as a brilliant writer): I’m all in, all the time. I will go anywhere she wants to take me. An alternate image – climbing into a submarine with Tisdale at the controls and diving down down down, into her singular sensibility, her genius for language, her love of our deeply imperfect world.

       KAREN KARBO, author of Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

      I’ve long admired Sallie Tisdale’s essays, and this collection brandishes her impressive strengths: she’s complicit without being woebegone, she’s philosophical without being windy or airy, and she’s empathetic without being hand-wringing.

       DAVID SHIELDS, author of Life Is Short – Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity

       Women of the Way: Discovering 2500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom

      [A] beautifully crafted volume. The universal wisdom and enlightened thinking preserved in this collection transcends gender.

       BOOKLIST

      A well-written, deeply moving collection of stories … Fanciful and eminently readable.

       BUDDHADHARMA

      With her frank and thoughtful writing style, Tisdale takes the reader on a philosophical adventure.

       EAST WEST WOMAN

      An enlivening and indispensable volume.

       JANE HIRSHFIELD, author of Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women

      A much-needed account of feminine teachers and leaders in Buddhism.

       KANSAS CITY STAR

      Tisdale’s descriptive writing is especially imaginative.

       PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

       The Best Thing I Ever Tasted: The Secret of Food

      Tisdale’s forte lies in helping readers to see the big picture, in which she ties together history, folklore, personal anecdote, and sharp analysis to show that we truly are what we eat.

       PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

      [V]ery interesting and entertaining … Tisdale’s coverage of food writers is very good.

       LIBRARY JOURNAL

      Tisdale is the Zen Buddhist Antichrist to her mother of the perpetual TV dinner.

       KIRKUS REVIEWS

      Sallie Tisdale takes subjects that might seem mundane or overdone and renders them unforgettable.

       SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

      She’s an easy, chatty writer who never says anything the way you’re expecting, which makes reading her a pleasure.

       BOSTON GLOBE

      This book reminds us to be mindful of every mouthful.

       PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

       Talk Dirty to Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex

      Tisdale’s provocative look at sexuality relates personal experiences alongside meditations on subjects such as pornography and prostitution.

       PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

      A beautiful book.

       LIBRARY JOURNAL

      Great intelligence, humor and curiosity … whether or not you’re taken aback by [Tisdale’s] desires, you’ll definitely exit her book with something to talk about.

       GLAMOUR

      These essays on sexuality, gender, and censorship offer the relief of a voice that is unmuffled by inhibitions.

       MIRABELLA

      Tisdale renders, with delectable eloquence, the sheer enormity of the sexual impulse.… These are conversations we need to be having, with as much of Tisdale’s bracing honesty as we can muster.

       SEATTLE WEEKLY

      No doubt will raise both hackles and consciousness.

       NEWSWEEK

      Tisdale [has] managed to put her finger squarely on the hot button of public opinion.

       THE BOSTON GLOBE

       Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest

      An odd and lovely work.

       KIRKUS REVIEWS

      Tisdale has produced a loving, literate work …

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