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The fragile lights of earth: articles and memories, 1942-1970
Par Alan Brown, Gabrielle Roy. 1982
The elephant and my Jewish problem: selected stories and journals, 1957-1987
Par Hugh Nissenson. 1988
Short stories and journal entries which describe the Jewish experience from the turn of the century to the aftermath of…
the Holocaust and the beginning of the state of Israel. 1988.Sightlines
Par Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.River of stone: fictions and memories
Par Rudy Wiebe. 1995
These twenty-two pieces by the Governor General's Award winning author Rudy Wiebe include fictional short stories often set in the…
West or the Arctic, as well as memories of his Mennonite childhood and his conflict with the community. c1995.Minutes of glory: and other stories
Par Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo. 2019
Collection of short stories from across the author's career that cover the period of British colonial rule and resistance in…
Kenya to eventual independence. Women fight for their space, men inherit power, and rebels embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. Includes two new stories. 2018Chasing shadows: visions of our coming transparent world
Par David Brin, Stephen W. Potts. 2017
A collection of short stories and essays examining the benefits and pitfalls of transparency in technology in a surveillance society.…
Includes pieces from, among others, Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Jack McDevitt, Neal Stephenson, Ramez Naam, and Cat Rambo. Strong language. 2017The Nevada review: Fall 2012
Par Joe McCoy, Caleb Cage. 2012
This literary journal provides an eclectic mix of writings on Nevada topics. Selections in this issue include an essay on…
public pensions in Nevada, short stories and excerpts from fiction works by Nevada authors; and an interview with Carolyn Hayes Uber, the president of Stephens Press of Las Vegas. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexAyude a sus hijos a tener éxito en la escuela: guía para padres latinos (Guías prácticas #0)
Par Mariela Dabbah. 2006
Explains the U.S. educational system and the process of selecting the best schools for your children. Discusses your responsibilities and…
rights as parents of school-age students and describes ways to effectively get involved with your children's education. Spanish language. 2006Naked
Par David Sedaris. 2009
A humorous memoir of bizarre and absurd experiences with family, friends, and strangers. The title essay recounts the author's visit…
to a nudist colony, where he painfully faces coming to terms with his naked self. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1997The Storyteller Essays
Par Walter Benjamin. 2019
A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes…
short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
Par Chuck Klosterman. 2019
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from…
the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Par Raymond Carver. 1985
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two…
of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver&’s literary development.An Inventory of Losses
Par Judith Schalansky. 2020
A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands A Publishers Weekly Best Book…
of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader
Par Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Thomas A. Mccarthy. 2003
"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster…
Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new interview with the author. The broad contours of an episodic output emerge--a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford's unique human comedy. A world, as Lula, the author's favorite of all his characters, reflects, "wild at heart and weird on top."The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room provides essential reading for anyone after the soul of American writing.Entrapment and Other Writings
Par Nelson Algren, Dan Simon, Brooke Horvath. 2009
Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards…
and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren's eyes for their vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places. In Entrapment and Other Writings--containing his unfinished novel and previously unpublished or uncollected stories, poems, and essays--Algren speaks to our time as few of his fellow great American writers of the 1940s and '50s do, in part because he hasn't yet been accepted and assimilated into the American literary canon despite that he is held up as a talismanic figure. "You should not read [Algren] if you can't take a punch," Ernest Hemingway declared. "Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful."Revolution (The Africa Trilogy)
Par Jakob Ejersbo. 2009
Revolution is a collection of eleven short stories that act as a vital bridge between the novels Exile and Liberty.…
But it is also so much more than that. Ejersbo had a remarkable and unaffected talent for getting inside the heads of his characters: Moses, a worker in a Tanzanite mine who lives in hope of striking it rich; Sofie, a Greenlander who joins a French conman on his trip around the world; Rachel, who tries to make a life for herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting. You feel that Ejerbso could have written from the heart of every person living in Tanzania; and that you could go on reading them forever.Black Mountain: and other stories
Par Gerry Adams. 2021
In this collection, one of Ireland’s best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of…
love and of friendship. These are portraits of Ireland, and especially Belfast, old and new, in times of struggle and in times of peace, showing how our past is always part of our present. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny, always moving, these are stories of ordinary people captured with wit, with heart and with understanding. Introduction by Timothy O'Grady.The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Par Peter Haining, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1981
An absolute must-have for Sherlock Holmes fans, this collection is a treasure trove of little-known pieces and rarities featuring the…
world's most famous detective, gathered by expert Peter Haining.Collated with extensive notes and background material, the collection includes twelve unmissable works by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from short stories and plays to parodies, poems and commentaries.Haining's appendices add some very rare material, including a revealing interview with Conan Doyle about his inspiration for Holmes - and his reasons for killing him off. This is an outstanding compilation.Music For Chameleons
Par Truman Capote. 1980
In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders then with the stylistic brio…
we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old girl he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remainds one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of our time. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish
Par Peter Temple. 2020
Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own…
incomparable thing.Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews.When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The Red Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of Valentine's Day, an improbably delightful story about an ailing country football club, which in 2007 was adapted for television by the ABC. Also included are his short fiction, his reflections on the Australian idiom, a handful of autobiographical fragments, and a selection of his brilliant book reviews. .