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by Carlos Fuentes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, the rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City.
This Is How It Goes
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2005
Belinda and Cody Phipps appear a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is black--"rich, black, and different," in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former (white) classmate. As the battle for her affections...
Video Slut
How I Shoved Madonna Off an Olympic High Dive, Got Prince into a Pair of Tiny Purple Woolen Underpants, Ran Away from Michael Jackson's Dad, and Got a Waterfall to Flow Backward So I Could Bring Rock Videos to the Masses
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
When video killed the radio star, Sharon Oreck was calling the shots.
Video Slut takes an irreverent look behind the scenes of the music-video industry during its eighties heyday. Oreck, one of the top producers of all time, bluffed her way into the business with no experience whatsoever and...
Jesus' Son
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.
More Stories from My Father's Court
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
A delightful sequel to a cherished autobiographical collection by the Nobel Laureate
In My Father's Court is one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most affecting autobiographical works. The stories in it, published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna...
The Wine Lover's Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.
An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust...
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A collection of Bennett’s diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015
Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent...
In Praise of Reading and Fiction
The Nobel Lecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more...
by Elizabeth Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa. From her college days, she could find the most astonishing yet...
by Hermann Hesse
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
One of the most astonishing aspects of Hesse's career is the clear-sightedness and consistency of his political views, his passionate espousal of pacifism and internationalism from the start of World War I to the end of his life. The earliest essay in this book was written in September 1914 and was...
Renaissance Woman
The Life of Vittoria Colonna
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance
Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of...
The Burning Shores
Inside the Battle for the New Libya
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.
The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic...
Lucia Joyce
To Dance in the Wake
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain." —James Joyce, 1934
Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol...
by Joe LeSueur
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2004
An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of O'Hara's poetry
Joe LeSueur lived with Frank O'Hara from 1955 until 1965, the years when O'Hara wrote his greatest poems, including "To the Film Industry in Crisis," "In Memory of My Feelings,"...