A Certain Plume by Henri Michaux; Richard Sieburth (Afterword by, Translator); Lawrence Durrell (Preface by)
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Category: Poetry in Translation | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French. The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing s ...Show more
A Lucky Man: Stories by Jamel Brinkley
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Category: Debut Short Story Collection
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from da ...Show more
Against Memoir - Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms by Michelle Tea
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Category: Art of the Essay
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating America's fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures, theirs are the s ...Show more
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
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Category: Non Fiction
A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An awar ...Show more
Amity and Prosperity: The Cost of Fracking in Two American Towns by Eliza Griswold
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Category: Non Fiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise ...Show more
Aperture by Jacek Dehnel; Karen Kovacik (Translator)
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Category: Poetry in Translation | Series: New Polish Writing Ser.
The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects -- internet culture, science, postmodern architecture -- even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged objects in this bilingual (Polish/English) collection. Dehnel's range of style and diction includes po ...Show more
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater
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Category: Literary Science Writing
A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post)Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not eve ...Show more
Bring Out The Dog: Stories by Will Mackin
$55.00 NZD
Category: Debut Short Story Collection
"A near-miraculous, brilliant debut."--George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo "In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war."--Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Rede ...Show more
Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa
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Category: Open Book Award | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
"These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level." --Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music -- A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 The speaker in Cape Verdean Bl ...Show more
Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly by Joshua Rivkin
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Category: Biography
The first book to explore the life and work of Cy Twombly, one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history--including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy and the United States where he perfected his room-size ...Show more
Cherry by Nico Walker
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Category: Debut Fiction
Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship ali ...Show more
Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
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Category: Book Award | Series: BreakBeat Poets Ser.
"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it." --Eve Ewing, author of Electric ArchesIn this stunning debut, poet Jos Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody ...Show more