“A Hungry Coronary heart: A Memoir” ($19, initially $22)

“Now, if I have been to inform you that Gordon Parks has written a minimum of three autobiography-memoir mashups, you’d most likely ask, ‘Why?’ And I’d say, ‘As a result of this man has Lived,’ with a capital L. Parks was a groundbreaking photographer, movie director, writer, poet, composer — the very definition of reinvention with out limits. Want I say extra? OK, only a bit: ‘A Hungry Coronary heart,’ Parks’s remaining memoir, chronicles the extraordinary lifetime of a person who, from a younger age, was on a mission to make his mark. It is unimaginable to learn this and never be in perpetual awe or flip the ultimate web page with out discovering your individual coronary heart hungrier for extra.”

— Mateo Askaripour, writer of “Black Buck” and “This Nice Hemisphere”