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Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years
Par Roger Mortimer. 2020
'I never usually know what to give the men in my life but I've found the perfect book: VINTAGE ROGER…
by Roger Mortimer, a collection of letters from the author's war years. He manages to be hilariously funny, even about the most gruesome encounters. I laughed and cried and enjoyed every word' Jilly Cooper (Good Housekeeping festive pick)I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug and conceited, far more tolerant and considerably more capable of looking after myself.In 1930, twenty-one-year-old Roger Mortimer was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards and spent the next eight years stationed at Chelsea Barracks. He lived a fairly leisurely existence, with his parents' house in Cadogan Square a stone's throw away, and pleasant afternoons were whiled away at the racecourse or a members' club. Admittedly things got a little tricky in Palestine in 1938, when Roger, now a captain, found himself amid the action in the Arab Revolt. The worst, however, was yet to come.In May 1940, while fighting the Germans with the British Expeditionary Force in the Battle of Belgium, he was knocked unconscious by an exploding shell. When he came round he was less than delighted to find that he was a prisoner of war. Thus began a period of incarceration that would last five long years, and which for Roger there seemed no conceivable end in sight.Vintage Roger is Roger Mortimer at his witty, irreverent best, exuding the charm and good humour that captured the nation's hearts in Dear Lupin and Dear Lumpy. Steadfastly optimistic and utterly captivating, these letters, written to his good friend Peggy Dunne from May 1940 to late 1944, paint a vivid portrait of life as a POW.Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Par Barbara Smith, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Alexis De Veaux, Michelle Cliff, Pat Parker, Ann Allen Shockley, Renita J. Weems, Cheryl Clarke, Becky Birtha, Akasha Gloria Hull, Toi Derricotte, Luisah Teish, Patricia Spears Jones, Kate Rushin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Cenen, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi Willie Coleman, Jewelle L. Gomez, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Linda C. Powell, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Jameelah Waheed. 2024
Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both…
provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.Soul and Substance: A Poet's Examination Papers
Par Jay Wright. 2023
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as…
one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of unconventional essays that he calls “examination papers,” which he defines as “designated inquiries to myself.” In these linked essays, most of which resemble prose-poems, with only a few lines set on each page, Wright explores abiding artistic and philosophical concerns, including language, aesthetic form, knowledge, time, and death. Soul and Substance presents these pieces for the first time.Drawing on everything from African mythology to mathematical axioms, Wright reflects on a wide range of topics: the difficulties of defining and confronting death; the challenge of transcending one’s own consciousness; the nature of rhythm and the structure of space; and the relationship among the self, the body, and the material world. Throughout, the book examines the limits of human knowledge and the implications of our always imperfect understanding.Experimental and original, Soul and Substance is an important addition to the work of a major writer.Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #154)
Par Fabio Pusterla. 2023
Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poetBrief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio…
Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language poets writing today. Born in Switzerland and resident in Italy, Pusterla engages the pressing moral concerns of his age and excavates the hidden realities of our concrete world. These are poems of disquieting Alpine landscapes and rift zones, filled with curious fauna, lanced with troubling memories, built “from the bottom, from the margins, from outside” the mainstream.Pusterla is the author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry and has received several major literary prizes. Selected and translated by Will Schutt, himself an award-winning poet, this volume draws from Pusterla’s six most recent collections to capture a wide range of the poet’s work. With English translations and Italian originals on facing pages, Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems deftly introduces one of Europe’s most ambitious, imaginative, and humane poets to English-speaking readers.From rags to riches By the earl’s side! Abandoned as a small child, Annabelle Smith has only vague memories of…
her past. Now living as a healer in London’s poverty-stricken East End, she receives a life-changing visit from the rich and imposing Lytton Staines, Earl of Thornton. He needs a cure for his ailing sister and helping him thrusts Belle into his dazzling life of luxury. But it’s Lytton who makes her world come alive! Gentlemen of Honor miniseries Book 1 — A Night of Secret Surrender Book 2 — A Proposition for the Comte Book 3 — The Cinderella Countess “Sophia James again delivers a truly wonderful love story filled with adventure and surprising twists”—Goodreads on A Night of Secret Surrender “A full-throttle ‘noir Regency’, this is the sort of read I hope for when Harley advertises a broken heroine, a dark hero, and a perilous romance”—Goodreads on A Proposition for the ComteThe New Wave Fabulists (Conjunctions #39)
Par Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, China Miéville. 2002
Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres—from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, and…
many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions&’ game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional &“pulp&” forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Miéville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.Exile (Conjunctions #62)
Par Peter Straub, Maxine Chernoff, Robin Hemley, Laura van den Berg, Lance Olsen. 2014
New writings on defectors and deportees, migrants and refugees, and the feeling of being far from home. From the…
moment homes and homelands came into being, exile ensued. While narratives of exile share themes of banishment, loss and longing, they are as diverse as the human experience itself. Writers as different as Homer and Heinlein, Aeschylus and Camus addressed this subject. In The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie conceives of exile as &“a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back.&” Its permutations know no bounds. The political dissident deported, or jailed, under house arrest; the defected spy; the classic prince banished by his royal father from the city gates; the communal exile of the diaspora. Through cutting-edge fiction, poetry and essays by emerging voices and contemporary masters, Conjunctions: 62, Exile explores the ramifications of expulsion and ostracism. Contributors include Edie Meidav, Peter Straub, Can Xue, H.G. Carrillo, Ales Steger, Maxine Chernoff and others.A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose
Par Nancy Willard. 1991
Selections from Nancy Willard&’s acclaimed volumes of poetry and proseThis diverse collection features some of Nancy Willard&’s most critically lauded…
poetry—including works from her Newbery Medal–winning volume, A Visit to William Blake&’s Inn—as well as her short fiction and four unconventional essays on writing.Hens, children, magic bottles, and the moon are just some of the characters running through the luminous musings gathered here. &“How to Stuff a Pepper&” becomes a heady discourse on the thoughts and sleeping habits of peppers. &“The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus&” and &“The Hucklebone of a Saint&” are tales about the power of superstition to shape our lives. Other stories showcase favorite Willard themes about God, religion, and the magic and mysticism in everyday life—and the ancestors, guardians, saints, and spirits who, in Willard&’s words, come back &“once in a while to keep an eye on us, the living.&”A paean to the power of storytelling, A Nancy Willard Reader is an essential volume for poetry and fiction lovers.Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (Boskone Bks.)
Par Joe Haldeman. 2005
The author of The Forever War presents a collection of writings ranging from our past in Southeast Asia to our…
future among the stars. Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel The Forever War, but his career also took off on the strength of his short fiction. This brilliant collection brings together examples of his science fiction as well as his writing on Vietnam—and reveals the inexorable connections between the two. The works included in Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds are united by its title essay, in which Haldeman explains how his past informs his envisioned futures. One of these futures is a grouping of four stories from the Confederación universe, which includes his novels All My Sins Remembered and There Is No Darkness. An anthropological expedition goes awry as a research team&’s subjects become murderous, and trade negotiations fall apart, comically lost in translation. The collection closes with one of Haldeman&’s most affective works about Vietnam—the moving narrative poem &“DX.&” Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds proves to be an anthology as versatile and multifaceted as the author who wrote it.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&’s personal collection.Outlander: Short Stories and Essays
Par Jane Rule. 1981
Fiction and nonfiction form compelling counterpoints in this powerful look at love and lesbianism The stories and essays in this…
anthology depict homosexuality in all its variegated forms. In &“Home Movie,&” Alysoun Carr, a clarinetist with the San Francisco Symphony, learns about overcoming fear from a woman named Constantina. &“In the Attic of the House&” depicts sixty-five-year-old Alice, who rents rooms to younger gay women who have no inkling of Alice&’s tragic lesbian past. &“Outlander&” is about a widowed alcoholic trying to stay sober through a war that will take her son and, possibly, her longtime lover. &“Sexuality in Literature&” is a lively essay about everything from the homophobia that exists in all of us to the new words that need to be invented for female sexuality.Mapping the Territory: Selected Nonfiction
Par Christopher Bram. 2009
The first collection of nonfiction from the author Tony Kushner calls &“one of the best novelists writing in the world…
today&” Over a thirty-year period, novelist Christopher Bram witnessed, and lived through, the powerful experiences of coming out, the AIDS epidemic, gay marriage, and the social changes that have occurred in lower Manhattan. From the title piece, which maps the state of gay fiction, to &“A Body in Books,&” about the gay books that changed the author&’s life, the essays in Mapping the Territory form a coherent autobiographical account of Bram&’s life. This work wouldn&’t be complete without &“Homage to Mr. Jimmy,&” his account of how his novel Father of Frankenstein grew from his imagination and writing into the Oscar-winning movie Gods and Monsters. Mapping the Territory is a thoroughly engaging and compelling look into a great American writer.Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher Without Faith
Par René Marill-Albérès. 1961
Professor Albérès in this well-ordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialism—anguish,…
nausea, hypocrisy, lucidity, consciousness, conformity, commitment, ethical values, situation, etc. Translated from the French by Wade Baskin.Proust's Way
Par François Mauriac. 1950
Letters to Friend and Foe
Par Baruch Spinoza. 1966
Freeman's: The Future of New Writing (Freeman's)
Par John Freeman. 2017
A diverse anthology of poetry, fiction and essays from the most exciting writers around the world in this “fresh, provocative,…
engrossing” literary journal (BBC.com).The literary anthology Freeman’s, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called “bold [and] searching” by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and “impressively diverse” by O Magazine. This issue introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping contemporary literature and will continue to impact it in years to come.Drawing on recommendations from book editors, critics, translators, and authors from across the globe, Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing includes pieces from writers aged twenty-five to seventy, from almost twenty countries and writing in almost as many languages. This will be a new kind of list, and an aesthetic manifesto for our times. Against a climate of nationalism and siloed thinking, this special issue celebrates a global view of where writing is going next.“The oldest is 70. The youngest, 26. In between, the best list of this kind I have ever seen.”—Marlon JamesEssays After Eighty
Par Donald Hall. 2015
The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these &“alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud…
funny&” essays (The New York Times). From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children&’s author. Now, in the &“unknown, unanticipated galaxy&” of very old age, his essays continue to startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: &“thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .&” He also addresses his present: &“When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.&” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: &“Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.&” &“Deliciously readable…Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.&” —The Wall Street JournalFreeman's: Home (Freeman's)
Par John Freeman. 2017
&“A superb anthology&” on the theme of sanctuary with original work by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Edwidge Danticat, Aleksandar Hemon and…
more (Kirkus Reviews). The third literary anthology in the series that has been called &“ambitious&” (O Magazine) and &“strikingly international&” (Boston Globe), Freeman&’s: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike, including in this edition Leila Aboulela, Barry Lopez, Amira Hass, Emily Raboteau, Kjell Askildsen, and many others. &“This edition of Freeman&’s manages to do what the world off the page cannot: provide a place where diversity can safely reside. A sanctuary for stories…Home is often the stories of others. Let these poems, shorts and stories guide you to what is your home.&”—Literary HubSay It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
Par Randall Kennedy. 2021
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of…
our time—from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is "among the most incisive American commentators on race" (The New York Times). Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep fellow feeling, decency, and wit, Say It Loud! includes:The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril • Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste • The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry • The Constitutional Roots of &“Birtherism&” • Inequality and the Supreme Court • &“Nigger&”: The Strange Career Continues • Frederick Douglass: Everyone&’s Hero • Remembering Thurgood Marshall • Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized • The Politics of Black Respectability • Policing Racial SolidarityIn each essay, Kennedy is mindful of complexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and he is always stirring and enlightening. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedy&’s thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America.Wall Street Noir (Akashic Noir)
Par Twist Phelan, Stephen Rhodes, Tim Broderick. 2007
This anthology explores the dark side of finance from Manhattan to Bangkok and Tel Aviv, featuring new stories by Jim…
Fusilli, Lauren Sanders and more. Wall Street often looks like a gleaming world of high-end professionalism where decisions to buy or sell are guided by expertise, formulas and dispassionate strategy. And sure, that&’s one version of Wall Street. Let&’s call it the CNBC edition. But this book is about another place, just beneath that shiny surface: a place where fear and greed have always held sway. Think WorldCom or Tyco; think Enron. Think Gordon Gekko. Wall Street Noir illuminates a place whose boundaries have spread well beyond Trinity Church and the East River. In today&’s global economy, Wall Street is everywhere: a borderless, virtual city encompassing Midtown Manhattan, Main Street, U.S.A., the maquilas of Honduras, the office towers of Shanghai, and the brothels of Bangkok. It&’s a shadowy metropolis, as the stories in this exciting collection reveal, and one that&’s far more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet. Wall Street Noir includes brand-new stories by John Burdett, Henry Blodget, Peter Blauner, Jason Starr, Megan Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, Stephen Rhodes, Twist Phelan, Tim Broderick, Jim Fusilli, David Noonan, Richard Aleas, Lawrence Light, James Hime, Mark Haskell Smith, Peter Spiegelman, and Lauren Sanders.The Folk Tales of Scotland: The Well at the World's End and Other Stories (Kelpies Ser.)
Par Norah Montgomerie, William Montgomerie. 2008
&“Norah and William Montgomerie had performed a magical transformation of their own by draping fairy tales in tartan&” (The Herald).…
The classic folk tales of Scotland were passed down from storyteller to storyteller, and from the first sentence, they held the attention of listeners and readers as though a spell had been cast over them, transporting them to a magical realm where mermaids and men, selkies and sailors, ogres and princesses all mingle and are miraculously transformed. First published in 1956, the Montgomeries, distinguished folklorists, gathered these captivating stories from all parts of Scotland. This collection became a classic of the storytelling tradition, retold in a simple, dramatic style and appealing to adult and child alike. Now illustrated with Norah Montgomerie&’s own original drawings, it is a book to be treasured for years as the key to an enchanted, timeless world. &“Buy it for all the children in your life—and the adults too! Well done Birlinn for making it available again.&” —Facts & Fiction Storytelling Magazine &“With charming illustrations by Norah Montgomerie, this book makes a welcome change from the Brothers Grimm.&” —Dumfries & Galloway Standard