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1) The Morels
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A “gripping and mesmerizing” novel about a work of art that tears a family apart (The A.V. Club).
The Morels—Arthur, Penny, and Will—are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family apart at the seams?
Arthur’s old schoolmate Chris is fascinated with this very question as he becomes...
The Morels—Arthur, Penny, and Will—are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family apart at the seams?
Arthur’s old schoolmate Chris is fascinated with this very question as he becomes...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto
In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone. The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors--the...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"This reference book describes literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors. It includes series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name and posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library [Foundation] challenged presidents, judges, historians, filmmakers, poets, actors, and others to craft 272 words of their own to celebrate Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, or a related topic that stirs their passions ... [The book] features images of important Lincoln documents and artifacts, including the first copy of the address that Lincoln wrote out after delivering it, the program from the cemetery dedication,...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The gimmick lies latent in every made thing in capitalism, from the banana slicer to the cryptocurrency derivative to the readymade artwork that interprets itself. It includes both the painstakingly devised and the gratuitously disposable. It is what we call things when uncertain if they are over- or underperforming, if they are historically backward or just as problematically advanced, if they are wonders or tricks. With its promises about the saving...
17) Role models
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich-and happily horrify readers everywhere.
Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities-some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the...
Publisher
Frame Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This book embraces the generational dialogue between creatives from various fields of knowledge and experience. It celebrates the legacy of renowned architects, artists and designers that have influenced the creative discourse beyond disciplinary boundary and conventional context over the last fifty years and brings them in critical dialogue with a young generation of upcoming influencers in the respective fields. The heart of the publication lies...
Publisher
Strange Attractor Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology investigating the influences behind Dungeons & Dragons, the most popular modern role-playing game. Drawing upon the original list of "inspirational reading" provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master's Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related periodicals that helped to define the modern role-playing game, Appendix N. offers a colletion of short fiction and resonant fragments that reveal the literary...
