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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2016: The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and Other Stories
By The Caine Prize for African Writing. 2016
A collection that brings together the five 2016 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers' Workshop,…
which took place April 2016. Now in its 17th year, The Caine Prize for African Writing has become an established prize in the literary calendar attracting high-calibre writers from all over the continent.Again, Dangerous Visions: Stories
By Harlan Ellison. 2008
Over the course of his legendary career, Harlan Ellison has defied--and sometimes defined--modern fantasy literature, all while refusing to allow…
any genre to claim him. A Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association as well as winner of countless awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker, Ellison is as unpredictable as he is unique, irrepressible as he is infuriating. Over thirty titles in Ellison's brilliant catalog are now available in an elegant new package featuring Ellison himself. Genius never felt so combustible. Again, Dangerous Visions is the classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published, and includes forty-six original stories edited and with introductions by Harlan Ellison, featuring John Heidenry, Ross Rocklynne, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrew J. Offutt, Gene Wolfe, Ray Nelson, Ray Bradbury, Chad Oliver, Edward Bryant, Kate Wilhelm, James B. Hemesath, Joanna Russ, Kurt Vonnegut, T. L. Sherred, K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg), H. H. Hollis, Bernard Wolfe, David Gerrold, Piers Anthony, Lee Hoffman, Gahan Wilson, Joan Bernott, Gregory Benford, Evelyn Lief, James Sallis, Josephine Saxton, Ken McCullough, David Kerr, Burt K. Filer, Richard Hill, Leonard Tushnet, Ben Bova, Dean Koontz, James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence, A. Parra (y Figueredo), Thomas M. Disch, Richard A. Lupoff, M. John Harrison, Robin Scott, Andrew Weiner, Terry Carr, and James Tiptree Jr.Best Women's Erotica 2002
By Marcy Sheiner. 2002
Sexy, smart and literate--these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all…
its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2002 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQ Activism
By Adrian Brooks. 2015
Before, during and after Stonewall: 100 Years of Heroes and History The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history…
of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today, including first-person accounts of the key protest at the heart of the 2015 movie, Stonewall. The book shows how LGBT folk have always been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States. It references heroes like Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bayard Rustin, Harvey Milk, and Edie Windsor. Equally, the book honors names that aren't in history books, from participants in the Names Project, a national phenomenon memorializing 94,000 AIDS victims, to underground artists and activitists not yet widely known.Partners in Wonder: Stories
By Harlan Ellison. 1975
Robert Bloch, Ben Bova, Algis Budrys, Avram Davidson, Samuel R. Delany, Joe L. Hensley, Keith Laumer, William Rotsler, Robert Sheckley,…
Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison, unassisted. If you mix Ellison with wild talents like those names listed above, you have got a book as unique as the Abominable Snowperson. Here is the first collection of collaborative stories ever created, each deranged vision complete with introduction (in the patented Ellison manner) explaining how the story was written and who gets the blame. The lunatic mind of Harlan Ellison strikes again.Conversations in Tehran
By Fred Reed, Jean. 1944
In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after…
Khomeini) returned to Iran after a two-year absence-on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the Reform movement. They had come to interview several of the men and women who had propelled Mohammad Khatami to the presidency in 1997, with a mission to rebuild a civil society in Iran under the banner of human rights, democracy, free speech and a renewed dialogue of civilizations.This is their report: Iran's once lively press has been all but silenced, the country's most outspoken journalists imprisoned, and, argues Mohsen Kadivar, one of the regime's sharpest critics, the shah's crown has now merely been replaced by the mollah's turban.Most surprising of all, however, was the populist bitterness expressed against the now beleaguered Reform movement. Too many promises had gone unfulfilled; too many commitments neglected.President Khatami's Reform movement had failed to improve the people's livelihood. Worse, it would not, or could not, defend its strongest supporters against assaults by those determined to stop a democratic restructuring of the modern world's first religious state. It was, said Saïd Hajjarian, the Reform strategist semi-paralyzed in an assassination attempt, "too late": Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his radical cohorts were already lurking in the shadows.Evolution and Victorian Culture
By Bernard Lightman, Bennett Zon. 2014
In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the…
first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.Dreams
By Olive Schreiner.
1924. This is the second book by Schreiner, South African author and feminist, who is best remembered for her novel,…
The Story of an African Farm. It contains eleven short stories based on Schreiner's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.The Desert Places
By Matt Kish, Amber Sparks, Robert Kloss. 2012
The Desert Places is a pocket-sized edition of a hybrid text by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss that explores the…
evolution of evil in worlds both seen and unseen and features full-color illustrations by Matt Kish, illustrator of the critically acclaimed Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page.Old Mother, Little Cat
By Merrill Gerber. 1995
Old Mother, Little Cat is a highly readable memoir of Gerber's mother's decline in health and how their relationship grew…
during this time, blended in with Gerber's finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten).George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour
By Eva-Marie Kröller. 1992
Art Lessons
By Ann Iverson. 2011
Art Lessons explores the connections between visual art and the written word. By incorporating the words and insights from Vincent…
Van Gogh's intuitive work and life, Ann Iverson's poetry reveals her keen insights into the mysterious interplay between art and poetry, happiness and sadness, God and nature.The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan
By Michelle Yeh, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Ming-Ju Fan. 2014
This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern…
period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature.These texts illuminate Asia's experience with modernization, colonialism, and postcolonialism; the character of Taiwan's Cold War and post--Cold War cultural production; gender and environmental issues; indigenous movements; and the changes and challenges of the digital revolution. Taiwan's complex history with Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese colonization; strategic geopolitical position vis-à-vis China, Japan, and the United States; and status as a hub for the East-bound circulation of technological and popular-culture trends make the nation an excellent case study for a richer understanding of East Asian and modern global relations.Making the Hook-Up
By Cole Riley. 2010
Making the Hook-Up heats up the pages with characters from every walk of life who get in where they fit…
in. With African American erotica that brings an urban edge to sweet kink, Cole Riley has collected a sensational, authentic set of stories that revel in all the richness and variety of black men and black women's sexuality. Well-written, passionate, and provocative, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a feast for the senses and a treat for the soul. Cole Riley holds no bounds in this book of bold black erotica, with stories as creative as the soulful simmer of Nina Simone, as urgent as the barely concealed bite of bluesman John Lee Hooker, and as innovative as the muted moans of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 842-992 (1518-1519) (Collected Works of Erasmus #6)
By Desiderius Erasmus, P G Bietenholz, D F S Thomson. 1982
This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus life and in the history of his…
times He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann Froben during the crucial phases in the production of his revised New Testament the edition that he feels will be his lasting contribution to the scholarly foundations of the Christian faith Once it is in the hands of the public he feels he will be able to face the approach of old age more calmly On the return journey to Louvain he falls gravely ill from what is diagnosed as bubonic plague but recovers in a month and convalesces in the home of another publisher-friend Dirk Martens International politics continue to capture his attention Requests for funds in support of a papal crusade against the Turks arouse the flames of German national sentiment With the death of Maximilian I friends of Erasmus such as Richard Pace Ulrich von Hutten and Guillaume Bud are involved in diplomatic negotiations concerning the imperial succession When Prince Ferdinand arrives from Spain and requires a tutor the question of Erasmus own return to active court duties is raised After the appearance of Luther s Ninety-five Theses on indulgences purgatory and papal authority the question arises among conservatives whether Erasmus work too is a threat to the traditional ways of the church and society For the time being Erasmus is prepared to commend Luther and defend the latter s right to be critical of the church Erasmus overriding conviction at this point is that he and Luther are both part of the great intellectual and spiritual renewal that is taking place in so many parts of Europe As Luther s appearance lends a new kind of spiritual and patriotic vigour to German humanism the cult of Erasmus Erasmus the fellow German becomes an integral part of that new enthusiasm with Saxony and its elector Frederick the Wise at its center Volume 6 of the Collected Works of Erasmus seriesOn Being Blue
By William H. Gass, Michael Gorra. 1976
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue--sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things--and about everything else. It…
brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown and widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.Another Turn of the Crank: Essays
By Wendell Berry. 1995
Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so…
begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world.From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, Berry argues, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities-the two are intricately connected, and the health and survival of one depends upon the other.Provocative, intimate, and thoughtful, Another Turn of the Crank reaches to the heart of Berry's concern and vision for the future, for America and for the world.Lost Son: Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928
By Hermann Broch. 2012
By any measure, Hermann Broch was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Author of The Sleepwalkers and…
The Spell, he stands, together with James Joyce and Marcel Proust, at the pinnacle of literary Modernism. Born in 1886, he saw the First World War destroy the culture and consciousness of what had come before, seeing the West thrust unwillingly into the modern age. By 1938 Broch found himself arrested and detained, during which time be began work on his greatest novel, The Death of Virgil. Dozens of friends from all over the world managed to help him find his release and he moved to the United States where he lived for the rest of his life.With his wife Franziska, Broch had only a single child, Armand. While Broch had become preoccupied with deep questions of philosophy, psychology, and politics, his son became a thoroughgoing materialist. Sent away to an elite boarding school when 14, Armand found himself surrounded by students from the richest families in Europe. He became devoted to sports, to fast luxury cars (his father did not even know how to drive), and to the first class lifestyle of his classmates. These letters show the profound breach that developed between father and son. They also provide a portrait of the Gilded Age, a time of remarkable change, as Europe headed on a course of horrible inevitability. Letters from Broch during this time are uncommon, so we also get a chance to follow the trajectory of his life as he prepares to leave his job as an industrialist and devote himself to study and to writing.A Collection of Chinese Maxims
By Yin Haibo, Yin Bangyan. 2009
A beautiful collection of Chinese maxims now available in both the original Chinese and in English translation. They cover such…
diverse topics as government, learning, cultivation of character, affections, and ways of the world. Short and epigrammatic, these maxims are rich of the spirit and culture of China.The Terrible Threes
By Ishmael Reed. 1989
In The Terrible Threes, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature. This…
adventure into the world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism is a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy-tale gone awry. This novel begins where The Terrible Twos left off, in the late 1990s, three years after President and former fashion model Dean Clift was laughed out of office, with the nation in chaos and the White House implicated in a covert operation to rid America of surplus people and the Third World of its nuclear weapons. A blend of science fiction, folklore, history, fantasy, social satire, and all out surrealist comedy, The Terrible Threes bears Reed's distinctive voice and message. At once a threat, a promise, a prediction, and the awful truth about the land of the free and the home of the brave, the tale is wholly unforgettable. Once you've seen the world through Reed's eyes, you might never see it the same way again.