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An Arrangement of Skin: Essays
By Anna Journey. 2017
"These are intimate, delicate essays about the many skins we inhabit, illuminating even in their darkness." —The Boston GlobeAnna Journey…
revels in the flexibility and hybridity of the essay form, swerving artfully among topics—a recollection of a personal rupture and ensuing call to a suicide hotline opens into a consideration of taxidermy and lyric time; a mother’s penchant for telling macabre stories at the dinner table connects to campfire songs and the cultural importance of American roots music; and a tattoo artist named after a pirate–themed rum reminds us how we inscribe our skins and spirits through the intimate gestures of ink.Woman between Two Kingdoms: Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand
By Leslie Castro-Woodhouse. 2020
Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in…
Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a "harem" by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic and the political. Dara's role as an ethnic "other" among the royal concubines assisted the Siamese in both consolidating the kingdom's territory and building a local version of Europe's hierarchy of civilizations. Dara Rasami's story provides a fresh perspective on both the socio-political roles played by Siamese palace women, and how Siam responded to the intense imperialist pressures it faced in the late nineteenth century.The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
By Wendell Berry. 2009
The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981;…
the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays
By Wendell Berry. 2019
""Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come…
to see the truth that is told here."" —The New York Times Book ReviewIn this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America's most necessary social commentators. With wisdom and clear, ringing prose, he tackles head–on some of the most difficult problems confronting us near the end of the twentieth century—problems we still face today.Berry elucidates connections between sexual brutality and economic brutality, and the role of art and free speech. He forcefully addresses America's unabashed pursuit of self–liberation, which he says is ""still the strongest force now operating in our society."" As individuals turn away from their community, they conform to a ""rootless and placeless monoculture of commercial expectations and products,"" buying into the very economic system that is destroying the earth, our communities, and all they represent.Mariposas amarillas y los señores dictadores: América Latina narra su historia
By Michi Strausfeld. 2019
Una espléndida historia de América Latina a través de su literatura. Michi Strausfeld,una de las expertas en literatura latinoamericana más…
reconocidas del mundo,analiza en este espléndido libro las ideas y prejuicios que han atravesado a lo largo de más de quinientos años la historia del continente. Lo hace a partir de la relectura de autores de primer nivel como Gabriel García Márquez, lio Cortázar, Elena Poniatowska, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Carlos Onetti, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Isabel Allende, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Darcy Ribeiro, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz o Guillermo Cabrera Infante. En total, más de doscientos cincuenta escritores y escritoras dan muestra de la riqueza y el bagaje cultural único de América Latina, siempre entrelazado con su destino político. A través de poemas, relatos y novelas Strausfeld nos guía por la agitada y fascinante historia del continente al tiempo que nos deleita con una serie de semblanzas breves de los principales representantes de su literatura, que la autora conoció y trató personalmente. Descubriremos también cuán críticos son los textos contemporáneos con los hechos del pasado, con qué lucidez las grandes figuras de las letras hispanoamericanas analizaron las situaciones de sus respectivos países y cómo sus obras se han convertido en la corrección de unos manuales muchas veces falsarios. En palabras de Vargas Llosa, «la literatura cuenta la historia que la historia que escriben los historiadores no sabe ni puede contar». Así pues, Mariposas amarillas y los señores dictadores es un paseo literario por la verdadera historia del continente latinoamericano y una invitación sincera, lejos de la mirada eurocéntrica, a reabrir el diálogo entre América Latina y Europa.Caliente
By Luna Miguel. 2016
Una historia personal de amor y placer «Pues me he leído este libro casi del tirón, a pesar de que…
mi cishomosexualidad no me convertía en target predilecto. Me ha encantado la frialdad distante de la autora. He aprendido mucho. Y he sacado un par de conclusiones importantes que no voy a desvelar aquí.»Luisge Martín Luna Miguel brinda en Caliente su narración más íntima sobre el deseo, el amor plural y la creación literaria; iluminadoras entrevistas en torno al placer y el autoplacer, y una lúcida lectura de una larga estirpe de escritoras que lo arriesgaron todo en su literatura, como Louise Glück, Cristina Morales, Annie Ernaux, Marina Tsvietáieva, H. D., Renée Vivien o Chris Kraus.Con «inteligencia y provocación» (Zenda), la autora «se impone “decir con rabia todo lo que no debo”» (El Cultural de El Mundo), y así, por medio de confesiones, reflexiones y citas, sin respiro, audaz y reveladora, vuelve a tocarnos con su mejor obra hasta la fecha. La crítica ha dicho...«Se lee del tirón y con enganche, y se aprenden y recuerdan muchas cosas sobre los terrores e inseguridades de las chicas de nuestro tiempo. Que no es poco.»Víctor Lenore, Vozpópuli «Con la disciplina de una relación estable y el fogonazo del lío de una noche, Luna organiza la biblioteca perfecta del ardor; pléyade, red, "sistema solar" para hacer colisionar nuestros tibios cuerpos celestes. Escritura y lectura del aprendizaje de la transgresión. Un libro como una bola de fuego.»Gabriela Wiener «Luna Miguel abre el melón sobre el deseo femenino y el poliamor.»Ariana Basciani, The Objective «No conocemos la forma de defendernos para que no nos rompan el corazón. Pero en Caliente sabemos qué hacer: masturbación, lecturas y amantes.»Luciana Peker «Sobre el deseo y el placer. Luna es increíble, me flipa todo lo que escribe.»Amarna Miller «Un libro arrebatador que comienza con el "corazón roto" y termina ofreciendo un destello de felicidad. Desde la masturbación a la escritura feminista, de Balthus a Kristeva, más allá de la vergüenza, hacia la multiplicidad del amor.»Fernando Castro Flórez «A veces un libro nos recuerda de lo que la literatura es capaz, de lo exigente que puede ser su examen, y lo oportuno de sus consuelos. Caliente es magia blanca, y estoy muy orgulloso y agradecido de que Luna Miguel lo haya escrito.»Gonzalo Torné «Luna Miguel utiliza la escritura biográfica como una trampilla para colarse en las entrañas literarias del deseo sexual, para estudiar su gramática e imaginar nuevas formas de relacionarnos con él.»Eudald Espluga «Un sexo en forma de ensayo.»Vanessa Graell, El Mundo «Leo a Luna y se me despierta el placer.»Margot Rot «Un ensayo que trata el deseo femenino de forma elaborada, delicada, lujuriosa y apabullante. Algo que yo, hasta ahora, no había leído antes. [...] He disfrutado inmensamente, [...] os [lo] recomiendo absolutamente a todas. Estoy segura de que de él extraeréis mucha información, pero sobre todo, hallaréis en él el amor propio, que nos ha sido robado, por vuestro deseo, vuestro cuerpo, y vuestras vulvas.»@lectoralila «Una de las voces más auténticas y comprometidas de su generación. Llena de imágenes potentes, humor y agudas reflexiones.»Laura Ferrero, ABC «Luna Miguel es una buscadora de historias, de personajes de ficción, de mujeres ficcionadas, de mujeres que ficcionan.»Rocío Niebla, Pikara Magazine «Una voz necesaria para la literatura.»Paloma Abad, Vogue «Luna Miguel despliega toda su vertiente lírica para narrar con criterio, pero dejando que las aguas de la poesía penetren con fuerza en las playPEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019
By Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim. 2019
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction selected by Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen…
Maria Machado"Prominent issues of social justice and cultural strife are woven thematically throughout 12 stories. Stories of prison reform, the immigrant experience, and the aftermath of sexual assault make the book a vivid time capsule that will guide readers back into the ethos of 2019 for generations to come . . . Each story displays a mastery of the form, sure to inspire readers to seek out further writing from these adept authors and publications."—BooklistWho are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book offers a dozen compelling answers to these questions.The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in literary magazines in the previous year. Chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form, they take us from the hutongs of Beijing to the highways of Saskatchewan, from the letters of a poet devoted to God in seventeenth–century France to a chorus of poets devoted to revolution in the “last days of empire.” They describe consuming, joyful, tragic, complex, ever–changing relationships between four friends who meet at a survivors group for female college students; between an English teacher and his student–turned–lover in Japan; between a mother and her young son.In these pages, a woodcutter who loses his way home meets a man wearing a taxidermied wolf mask, and an Ivy League–educated “good black girl” climbs the flagpole in front of the capitol building in South Carolina. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do to nurture literature’s newest voices.Sugar is everywhere. Do your children beg you to buy unhealthy sugary snacks at the supermarket, and kick up a…
tantrum if you refuse? Perhaps you crave sweet treats, bread, pasta and sauce-laden food yourself. Do you notice lethargy and mood swings in your children as a result of blood glucose spikes and dips? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, your family''s health is at risk. Dr Val Wilson can help. Having lived with Type 1 diabetes for more than four decades, her relationship with sugar has at times been very unhealthy, but today she is well in control of her sugar intake. How to Reduce Your Child''s Sugar Intake is packed with recent scientific research and nutritional information to help you understand addiction to sugar and conquer it. It provides simple, actionable advice and delicious recipes to help you break free from the mental, physical and emotional traps of old eating patterns.This book shows the way to a sustainable, healthy lifestyle. It will enable you and your family to enjoy dramatically improved health and mood, increased energy levels and weight loss.Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir
By Lu Spinney. 2017
“Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Beyond the High Blue Air is a spare, sharp memoir about…
the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.” —Bee Wilson, The Sunday Times Lu Spinney’s memoir Beyond the High Blue Air is at once a portrait of the fearlessness of familial love and the profound dilemma posed by modern medicine. When Spinney’s twenty–nine–year–old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, “he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,” writes his mother, “skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead . . .” He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss—Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness—that unravels over the next five years. Spinney, her husband, and three other children put their lives on hold to tend to Miles at various hospitals and finally in a care home. They hold out hope that he will be returned to them. With blunt precision, Spinney chronicles her family’s intimate experience. And yet, as personal a book as this is, it offers universal meaning, presenting an eloquent and piercing description of what it feels to witness an intimate become unfamiliar. This is a story about ambiguous loss: the disappearance of someone who is still there. Three quarters of the way through, however, Spinney’s story takes a turn. The family and, to the degree that he can communicate, Miles himself come to view ending his life as the only possible release from the prison of his body and mind. Spinney, cutting her last thread of hope, wishes for her son to die. And yet, even as she allows this difficult revelation to settle, she learns that this is not her decision to make. Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a “minimally conscious state” rather than a “persistent vegetative state,” there is no legal way to bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom. This profound book encompasses the lyrical revelations of a memoir like Jean–Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as well as the crucial medical and moral insights of a book such as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo
By Carole Maso. 2002
"Maso's incantatory description of her conjured–up subject's embrace takes on extraordinary power . . . Like Frida Kahlo's painting—impossible to…
look away from." —Kai Maristed, Los Angeles TimesAt the age of eighteen, Frida Kahlo’s life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced through by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self–portraits.A vibrant series of prose poems, Beauty Is Convulsive is a passionate meditation on Frida Kahlo, one of the twentieth century’s most compelling artists. Carole Maso brings together pieces from Kahlo’s biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries to assemble a text that is as erotic, mysterious, and colorful as one of Kahlo’s paintings.The Baltimore Book of the Dead
By Marion Winik. 2018
“This book is both brief and miraculous, and it will be finished before you’re ready to let it go. Like…
life.” —Ann Patchett, author of CommonwealthWhen Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now, a decade later, that beloved book has a moving companion volume. The Baltimore Book of the Dead is a new collection of portraits of the dead, weaving an unusual, richly populated memoir of compressed narratives.Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story starts in the 1960s in Marion Winik’s native New Jersey, winds through Austin, Texas, and rural Pennsylvania, and finally settles in her current home of Baltimore.Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, the Alpha, introducing locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love; the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia; the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half century of American life.The Crying Book
By Heather Christle. 2019
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry,…
how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review).Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence.Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.The Big Book of the Dead
By Marion Winik. 2019
Marion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically…
acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of the Dead, have been carefully combined in their proper chronological order, revealing more clearly than ever before the character hidden throughout these stories: Winik herself. Featuring twelve additional vignettes along with a brand–new introduction, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathetic, witty chronicler of life.These Are Strange Times, My Dear: Field Notes from the Republic
By Wendy Willis. 2019
"In these pointed and wide–ranging essays, Wendy Willis explores everything from personal resistance to the rise of political podcasts, civic…
loneliness to the exploitation of personal data, public outrage to the opioid crisis—all with a poet's gift for finding the sacred in the mundane, a hope in the dark.One of the country's sharpest observers of politics, art, and the American spirit, Willis returns often to the demanding question posed by Czech writer, activist, and politician Václav Havel: What does it mean to live in truth? Her view is honed by her place as a poet, as a mother, and, when necessary, as an activist. Together, the essays in These Are Strange Times, My Dear work within that largely unmapped place where the heartbreaks and uncertainties of one's inner life brush up against the cruelties and responsibilities of politics and government and our daily lives."Romance of Elsewhere: Essays
By Lynn Freed. 2017
"A marvelous collection." —The New York Times Book Review Traversing decades and continents, The Romance of Elsewhere captures the dilemma…
of the expat with Lynn Freed’s signature honesty and humor. She takes on subjects as disparate as Disneyland, lovers, ecotourism, shopping, serious illness, and the anomaly of writers who blossom into full power only in old age. Freed's new collection further establishes her as a renowned voice in memoir and the exploration of identity. "If Joan Didion and Fran Lebowitz had a literary love child, she would be Lynn Freed—or, at least, the resulting book would be Lynn Freed’s essay collection, The Romance of Elsewhere . . . in equal turns funny, wise, and sardonic." —BustlePEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018
By Alexandra Kleeman, Lesley Nneka Arimah. 2018
THE ESSENTIAL YEARLY GUIDE TO THE NEWEST VOICES IN SHORT FICTION"A book of gems, each one carrying its own particular…
clarity and cut, that teaches students of writing how limitless the short story form can be." —Marie–Helene Bertino, author of 2 A.M. at The Cat's PajamasPEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 celebrates twelve outstanding stories by today’s most promising new fiction writers and the literary magazines that discovered them. The characters within these pages include a college dropout dressed up as Hercules at Disney World; a college graduate playing a prostitute in a ghost town in Montana; a father from Trinidad leading a double life on a temporary visa; and a housewife in Taipei perfectly performing her familial and marital duties while harboring secret desires.This year’s selections were made by three award–winning writers, themselves innovators of the short story form: Jodi Angel, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Alexandra Kleeman. Each work is accompanied by commentary from the editors who first published it, explaining what made the piece stand out from the submissions pile, and why they were moved to share it with readers.The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
By Wendell Berry. 2018
The most comprehensive―and only author-authorized―Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune).In a time when our…
relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities.The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home.With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy―the natural world will not allow it.Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.Eating Promiscuously: Adventures in the Future of Food
By James McWilliams. 2017
A bold and bracing argument for the complete reimagining of the human diet by the critically acclaimed author of Just…
Food The human practice of farming food has failed. There are 7,500 known varieties of domesticated apples; we regularly eat about five. Seventy–five percent of the world's food derives from five animals and twelve plants. Factory farmed meat is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (about 14 percent, larger than transportation) and consumes 75 percent of the water in drought–prone regions such as the West. We are struck in a rut of limited choices, ad the vast majority of what we eat is detrimental to our health and the welfare of the planet. But what if we could eliminate agriculture as we know it? What if we could start over?James McWilliams's search for more expansive palate leads him to those who are actively exploring the fringes of what we can eat, a group of outliers seeking nutrition innovation outside the industrial food system. Here, we meet insect manufacturers, seaweed harvesters, road kill foragers, plant biologists, and oyster farmers who seek to open both our minds and our mouths—and to overturn our most basic assumptions about food, health, and ethics. Eating Promiscously generates hope for a more tasteful future—one in which we eat thousands of foods rather than dozens—with a new philosophy that could save both ourselves and our planet.The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
By Yukiko Motoya. 2018
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus…
stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice).In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her spouse’s features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own.In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and find a doorway to liberation.Encyclopedia of Black Comics
By Christopher Priest, Sheena C. Howard. 2017
The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States…
or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry. The book focuses on creators in the field of comics: inkers, illustrators, artists, writers, editors, Black comic historians, Black comic convention creators, website creators, archivists and academics—as well as individuals who may not fit into any category but have made notable achievements within and/or across Black comic culture.