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A Steady Rain
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny's wife and kids; Denny keeps Joey away from the bottle. But when a domestic disturbance call takes a turn for the worse,...
Blood Horses
Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was . . . just beauty, you know?"
Sullivan didn't know,...
Gamelife
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
You have been awakened.
Floppy disk inserted, computer turned on, a whirring, and then this sentence, followed by a blinking cursor. So begins Suspended, the first computer game to obsess seven-year-old Michael, to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. Thirty years later he will...
The Secret Life
Three True Stories of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A Top 10 Book of Essays & Literary Criticism for Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly | Books We Can’t Wait to Read in the Rest of 2017, Chicago Reader
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL—“in...
Orientation
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
A new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions.
"Orientation" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection of the same name, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies...
The Gutenberg Elegies
The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."
--The Washington Post
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer...
I See Reality
Twelve Short Stories About Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
An anthology of twelve original short stories by top authors exploring real issues for real teens.
Through prose and comics alike, these heart-pounding short stories for young adults ask hard questions about a range of topics from sexuality and addiction to violence and immigration. Here is...
The White Goddess
A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was...
by Hermann Hesse
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1972
In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen--literally, Fairy Tales. For this first edition in English, we have followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his works, where he added an eighth story, "Flute...
Real Time
Stories and a Reminiscence
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Amit Chaudhuri's stories range across the astonishing face of the modern Indian subcontinent. From divorcées about to enter into an arranged marriage to the teenaged poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from singing teachers to housewives to white-collar businessmen, Real Time...
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors...
The Odyssey
The Fitzgerald Translation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
Robert Fitzgerald's is the best and best-loved modern translation of The Odyssey, and the only one admired in its own right as a great poem in English. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of...
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER
Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant...
I Am Martin Eisenstadt
One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In the days after the 2008 presidential election, we heard that Sarah Palin thought Africa was one big country. We heard that the leak came from Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser. And then, within forty-eight hours, we heard that he was a fraud, a fake, and that Martin Eisenstadt didn't exist.
Maybe...