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By Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio. 2015
El presente volumen propone un recorrido panor mico por la obra de Rafael S nchez Ferlosio comprendida…
en su totalidad sin discriminar sus facetas de narrador ensayista conferenciante articulista y autor de apuntes o pecios El amplio reconocimiento de que goza Ferlosio como uno de las m s grandes prosistas de la lengua espa ola convive con un extendido prejuicio acerca de la dificultad que entra a leer algunos de sus textos dada la supuesta complejidad de un estilo caracterizado por la amplitud de las frases La presente selecci n sale al paso de este prejuicio espigando una serie de pasajes en los que queda patente c mo esa complejidad constituye de hecho una gozosa aventura de la raz n y de la lengua frente al fanatismo la estupidez y la oscuridad y es mucho antes un aliciente que un obst culo para disfrutar de la lectura La mayor parte de los m ltiples registros de Ferlosio aparecen representados en estas p ginas en las que no solo emergen algunas de sus m s recurrentes obsesiones sino tambi n la belleza y el poder o -nunca exentos de humor y sensualidad- de una escritura proteica que transita con toda naturalidad de la nota l rica a la pasi n pol mica siempre fiel al principio general de la lealtad a la palabra Que no se hable en vanoTin House: Winter Reading (2015) (Tin House Magazine)
By Rob Spillman, Win Mccormack, Holly Macarthur. 2015
Tin House brings you all the things you've come to expect from the acclaimed literary journal. Packed with wintery fiction,…
introspective essays, and artful poetry, this issue is perfect company for an afternoon in the shade. The best company on a cold night is hot new fiction, poems, essays, and interviews. Warm up with Tin House this winter. Fiction by Dorothy Allison, Patrick deWitt, Helen Phillips, Martha McPhee, Drew Ciccolo, James Scudamore, and Andrea Barrett Poetry by Sharon Olds, Caroline Knox, Adam Fitzgerald, Cornelius Eady, Caroline O'Connor Thomas, and Timmy Straw Features by Claire Vaye Watkins, Evie Wyld & Joe Sumner, Rachel Jamison Webster, CJ Hauser, and John Fischer Lost & Founds by Carrie Brown, James Guida, Pamela Erens, Scott F. Parker, and Carol KeeleyThe Journey Prize Stories 26
By Various. 2014
For more than twenty-five years, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada's most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who's…
who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music to a hospital ward in Thailand, from British Columbia's Burrard Inlet to St. John's Bowring Park, the stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting new writers. Among the stories this year: A woman's quest to trend on social media blinds her to her inability to connect with her own adult daughter. The delicate equilibrium maintained by a newly pregnant expat living in Israel is shattered when a missile lands in her backyard. An unusual guide to caring for an exotic pet highlights the many opportunities owners will have to learn valuable life lessons - beginning with the pet's death. The tender relationship between two musical prodigies is no match for the machinations of the adult world. After a woman returns to her parents' house to recuperate from a life-changing surgery, she discovers how difficult it is for others to accept who she has become. A terrible act of cruelty forces the tensions between two workers at a fish processing plant to spill out into the surrounding waters. When a former couple has a chance encounter on a B.C. ferry, old grievances and desires alike resurface with surprising results.From the Trade Paperback edition.Le profil de Lena
By Angeles Aragon Lopez, Sophia Bisstouane. 2018
Elena est une femme de 50 ans divorc e qui se retrouve seule une fois que ses…
enfants ont quitt la maison Elle d cide donc de recommencer chercher l amour Durant ce processus elle trouve davantage de sexe que d amour et galement quelques canailles Cependant elle red couvre galement la tendresse et va m me jusqu tomber amoureuse Elle et ses amies voluent dans le quartier de Malasa a Madrid Elles s interrogent sur les relations sur l amour sur les enfants sur les hommes et sur la vie Ce roman d sire tre un vibrant hommage une g n ration de femmes pionni res probablement la premi re g n ration de femmes divorc es m res c libataires et libres de l histoireGrowing Up Ethnic in America
By Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan. 1999
The editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on themes of…
racial and ethnic assimilation. With humor, passion, and grace, the contributors lay bare poignant attempts at conformity and the alienation sometimes experienced by ethnic Americans. But they also tell of the strength gained through the preservation of their communities, and the realization that it was often their difference from the norm that helped them to succeed. In pieces suggesting that American identity is far from settled, these writers illustrate the diversity that is the source of both the nation's great discord and infinite promise.Fast Girls
By Rachel Kramer Bussel. 2010
Fast girls don't mind being the girl everyone is talking about, as long as all eyes are focused their way.…
They are wanton, daring, shameless, and bold. Fast Girls celebrates the girl with a reputation, the girl who goes all the way, and the girl who doesn't know how to say "no." Featuring writing by Tristan Taormino, Shanna Germain, Donna George Storey, Teresa Noelle Roberts, Saskia Walker, Jacqueline Applebee, Tess Danesi, Shar Rednour, Aimee Pearl, and others, Fast Girls is a racy, provocative collection of erotica by the cream of the crop of female erotica writers. They take readers on unexpected journeys, from a bedroom with every toy imaginable to a sex club, a communal shower, on set with a personal porn star, and more. These characters revel in their sexual excesses, boldly doing what others only dream about.New American Stories
By Ben Marcus. 2015
In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range…
of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.The Colonel
By Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Tom Patterdale. 2009
A new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today Ten years in the…
writing, this fearless novel--so powerful it's banned in Iran--tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes. It begins on a pitch black, rainy night, when there's a knock on the Colonel's door. Two policemen have come to summon him to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter. The Islamic Revolution is devouring its own children. Set over the course of a single night, the novel follows the Colonel as he pays a bribe to recover his daughter's body and then races to bury her before sunrise. As we watch him struggle with the death of his innocent child, we find him wracked with guilt and anger over the condition of his country, particularly as represented by his own children: a son who fell during the 1979 revolution; another driven to madness after being tortured during the Shah's regime; a third who went off to martyr himself fighting for the ayatollahs in their war against Iraq; one murdered daughter, and another who survives by being married to a cruel opportunist.An incredibly powerful novel about nation, history and family, The Colonel is a startling illumination of the consequences of years of oppression and political upheaval in Iran.From the Trade Paperback edition.Best Women's Erotica 2015
By Violet Blue. 2014
Women and desire is the focus of this lust-filled literary exploration. Violet Blue has her finger on the pulse of…
sex and culture today and is an in-demand sexpert sought after by the likes of Dan Savage, Forbes Magazine, Oprah WInfrey and everyone in between. There is no more in tune with what women want and, especially, what female readers want. Love, romance and risk run rampant in this volume, expertly curated by Violet Blue, and she leaves no holds barred in stories that will steam up your reading glasses. From first time encounters to break-up sex, couples rekindling their spark and long-time partners engaging in game-changing experimentation, Best Women's Erotica 2015 guarantees the best erotica for women of the year (if not the decade.)Best Women's Erotica 2013
By Violet Blue. 2012
Violet Blue is a self-made wunderkind who is now one of our chief pundits on sex education, porn for women,…
as well as technology. Courted by OWN and appearing in many major magazines and periodicals around the world, everyone wants to know what Violet Blue has to say about sexuality today. Blue also curates one of the most respected and top selling erotica series for women -Best Women's Erotica, which keeps getting better and better every year thanks to her sharp editorial eye. Blue is not just a pundit on sexuality but also an agent of change and raises the bar ever higher, ensuring that Best Women's Erotica 2013 is even fresher, edgier and deliciously sexy than ever.Best Women's Erotica 2004
By Marcy Sheiner. 2004
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 2004 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.Please, Sir
By Rachel Kramer Bussel. 2010
The fortunate women of Please, Sir are not docile pushovers by any means. They make the rules and negotiate with…
their masters - though sometimes they also get off on being pushed just a little too far by men they know they can trust. It's as if the doms who enter their lives see the potential for submission in these women and want to arouse them more than ever before by providing an opportunity for them to let go. The editor of the bestsellers He's on Top and Yes, Sir, Rachel Kramer Bussel has chosen 22 stories that celebrate the thrill of submission by women who know exactly what they want. The characters in Please, Sir may be doing the bidding of their dominants, but the tops are just as much subject to the will of their subs, in their own way, by making them ache, moan, and quiver. With stories by Shanna Germain, Elizabeth Coldwell, Alison Tyler, and more.Best Black Women's Erotica
By Iyanla Vanzant, Blanche Richardson. 2001
Cleis Press's Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Women's Erotica series top bestseller lists, raising and exceeding the standards and expectations…
of readers of erotic fiction with each new edition. Now the African-American women's erotica market will discover the same level of literate, provocative sex writing in this debut collection of a new series. Best Black Women's Erotica showcases the hottest, most arousing, and most surprising erotic literature by African-American women writers. Representing a wide range of styles and voices, these 25 new stories offer a steamy assortment of fiction from popular authors such as Valerie Wilson Wesley, Bertise Berry, Tananarive Due, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Barbara Neely, Renee Swindle, Vernise Berry, Julie Hare, and Terris Grimes, among others.One Night Only
By Violet Blue. 2011
Some temptations are just too tantalizing to ignore- the hot guy at the Apple Genius Bar, the mysterious stranger in…
the train station who makes you sweat, the nameless faceless stranger at the club whose dirty dancing left you breathless. From quickies, to lost weekends, to three-ways and nights that you'll want to last forever, One Night Only is a collection of delightfully dirty bon mots edited by the one and only Violet Blue. Always surprising, sometimes sweetly romantic, and more than a little shocking, these stories of sudden sex are designed to get your juices flowing and inspire your OWN tale of one night of love, lust, and fantasy! One of the most seductive set of stories ever put to print!Girl Crazy
By Sacchi Green. 2009
Girl crazy. It's that surge of longing that floods body and soul, that mad rush of pleasure and pain, from…
tentative self-discovery to the first thrill of girl-on-girl play to deep explorations of the fiercer shores of sex. In this collection, Catherine Lundoff, D. L. King, Cheyenne Blue, Kristina Wright, Jean Roberta, and 15 other writers offer up no-holds-barred, all-holds-hot tales of the highs and lows and kinky twists of first times. Coeds acting out for Girls Gone Wild get even wilder once the cameraman goes home. A lonely businesswoman discovers how far and hard her young chauffeur can drive her. Butch buddies find secret desires racing out of control. A summer job building trails sparks trailblazing into all-new territory. These and a wide range of other irresistible stories envelop the reader in that delicious feeling known as girl crazy.Going Down
By Rachel Kramer Bussel. 2012
When you look back on the best sex you ever had, oral sex will no doubt be a part of…
the picture. Rachel Kramer Bussel is back with more lip-smackingly superb oral sex erotica for everyone with Going Down. Taking in the essence, taste, smell, and sexy up-closeness of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac that affects one physically, mentally, and emotionally. Once you have your lover in your mouth, the heat of desire, passion, and lust focus, tying your arousal directly to them. These fictive fellatio stories, sizzling 69ings, and talented tonguing give readers lots of new ideas to try at home. In Going Down, lovers give, receive, and explore the many ways oral sex can be an act of love, tenderness, devotion, or pure sexual joy. Just sit back and enjoy this sexy read of explicit stories to get you hot and bothered with more than a mouthful.This Poem Is a House
By Ken Sparling. 2016
From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're…
writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it.Ken Sparling has written six novels, including Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.A Barbarian in Asia
By Sylvia Beach, Henri Michaux. 1949
A wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is “without equal in the literature of our time”…
(Jorge Luis Borges) Henri Michaux (1899–1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his mind. Part fanciful travelogue and part exploration of culture, A Barbarian in Asia is presented here in its original translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous American-born bookseller in Paris.The Journey Prize Stories 29: The Best of Canada's New Writers
By Grace O'Connell, Kevin Hardcastle, Ayelet Tsabari. 2017
Like The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories series, The Journey Prize Stories…
is one of the most celebrated annual literary anthologies in North America. For almost 30 years, the anthology has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian authors, a tradition that proudly continues with this latest edition. With settings ranging from wartime China to the temporary calm of an airport runway, the twelve stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging voices. A young boy who believes he is being stalked by an unstoppable, malevolent entity discovers that he may not be the only one. For a high school student in desperate straits, writing a short story about a pack of giant dogs and their mysterious owner represents her best chance at survival. In a sweeping story set against the fall of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, a pregnant woman waits anxiously for her doctor husband to leave the city before it's too late. A river that runs through a First Nations community is the source of sustenance, escape, and tragedy for a girl and her family. The haunting footage of the politically motivated self-immolation has unexpected reverberations for a Tibetan-Canadian woman dealing with multiple conflicts in her own life. A man who works a back-breaking job at an industrial mat cleaning service is pushed to his limit. When her mother has to return to Kinshasa to bury a family member, a girl gradually learns of the intricacy and depth of grief, in an evocative piece that illuminates the cultural gaps common within immigrant families, and the power of food and stories to bridge them. The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Journey Prize, which is made possible by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener's donation of Canadian royalties from his novel Journey, which McClelland & Stewart published in 1988. The 2017 winner will be announced by the Writers' Trust of Canada in November 2017.El placer del amor
By Alain De Botton. 2006
Escrita hace veinticinco años, El placer del amor es un compendio de humor y sabiduría, una novela provocadora que no…
ha perdido un ápice de su actualidad. Un día gris cualquiera, un hombre cualquiera y un vuelo de lo más aburrido entre París y Londres... y de repente, ese hombre levanta la vista y ve a Chloe, su vecina de asiento, una joven de ojos verde agua, hombros quebradizos y uñas mal cuidadas. Cuando el avión aterriza, él ya sabe que esa es la mujer de su vida. Es más: su amor es único y va a ser eterno. A la semana siguiente, los dos cenan juntos por primera vez, y poco después dormirán juntos. Empieza la aclimatación a ese país extranjero que es el cuerpo del ser amado, pero aún no sabemos si este momento mágico tiene mimbres para convertirse en un proyecto de futuro, cabalgando los fastidios de un desayuno donde falta la mermelada que más nos gusta o una cena con los padres de ella. Habrá que esperar... Mientras esperamos y leemos, Alain de Botton pone en tela de juicio ese misterio llamado amor, y en la tarea le ayudan los consejos de grandes intelectuales, empezando por Marx y siguiendo con Voltaire, Oscar Wilde y Camus.