Book Description
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547595964
A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781417663378
Author : Peter Crowther
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756405335
Featuring contributions from Stephen Baxter, Eric Brown, Robert Reed, and Ian Watson, this brilliant collection of fifteen original stories explores the nature of artificial intelligence, playing on our fear and fascination with robots, computers, and technology. Original.
Author : Molly Brodak
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1785781049
'Raw, poetic and compulsively readable ... I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know.' Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help The summer she turned thirteen, Molly Brodak's father was arrested for robbing eleven banks. In time, the image she held of him would unravel further, as more and more unexpected facets of his personality came to light. Bandit is her attempt to discover what, exactly, is left, when the most fundamental relationship of your life turns out to have been built on falsehoods. It is also a scrupulously honest account of learning how to trust again, and to rebuild the very idea of family from scratch. Refusing to fence off the trickier sides of her father's character, Brodak tries to find, through crystalline, spellbinding prose, a version of him that does not rely on the easy answers but allows him to be: an unknowable and incomprehensible whole – who is also her father. Unforgettable, moving, and utterly relatable, Bandit is a story of the unpredictable complexity of family.
Author : Ariana Reines
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1947793330
Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." —Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.
Author : David Barringer
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781568988283
". . . no one has ever written about graphic design in quite this way. The title sounds more like a short story, and at times I found myself reading it as though it were a fictional exploration of a designer's consciousness. When I did, itsenergy, relentlessness, emotion, and abundance of detail made sense, as did its literary style. Barringer writes entertainingly and has a gift for intricate metaphor. . .Designers who enjoy ambitious writing will find plenty toadmire . . ." From Rick Poynor's I.D. Magazine review of "American Mutt Barks in the Yard" (Emigre; 68) By winning the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing, David Barringer firmly established himself as the freshest and most interesting writer on the subject. His articles, which have appeared in publications from Print to Emigre, are notable for his strong personal point of view, literary style, and even humor, not always attributes associated with writing about design. In this collection of essays, Barringer's first, he wonders why drug names have so many X's in them, ponders the rise of gory DVD covers, and ruminates on his father's business card collection, pythons, and the human skullproving again and again that design is everywhere you look for it, (but may not have seen) without the powerful magnifying lens of this talented and exciting observer and writer.
Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2000-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312254193
At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.
Author : Douglas Light
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933016405
There are seven defining moments in a person's life. For Morris Bliss, the difficulty is in knowing which moments are defining. Morris Bliss, at thirty-five, is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia - he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares a walk-up apartment with his father. Enter Stefani, an 18 year-old in a Catholic school uniform, and Morris's once static life quickly unravels when Stefani's father, unwittingly calls on Morris to work for him. Life becomes further entangled when his best friend is recruited by a cartel that local sex markets, and begs for Morris to save his bacon. Most importantly, Morris's father, a taciturn widower, finally reveals the truth surrounding the strange death of Morris's mother. A body at rest will remain at rest. Unless acted upon. With the agony of his inertia finally broken, Morris Bliss fights to keep his life from careening out of control. He must learn to adapt if he is to survive.
Author : 826 National
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544569636
Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son, works with group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up.