Chaucer, Melville, Nathanael West, Wiliam Vollmann
This link opens in a pop-up window
Ernest Hemingway: SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway (2022, Independently Published)
Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality …
A guide to preparing for death for both those who are dying and those around them, offers readers practical advice, …
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's …
Read this as the spider weaves its web, make a character map as you go! Set in present-day Oakland, each chapter told from a different character's perspective with a central (apocryphal?) chapter unattributed to any voice. Not exactly the caliber of a Wm. Faulkner, Leslie Marmon Silko or Ana Castillo but comparable, Orange has some lurches but his wordcraft is very fine, it's story compelling and authentic. There some implausible marksmanship but thankfully no magic realism, readers are expected to keep up, for plot coherenece best to knock it out in one or two reading sessions.
Byung-Chul Han: Agonie des Eros (Paperback, Matthes & Seitz Verlag)
Dans ce livre, dont le titre original est "Agonie de l'Éros", le philosophe allemand d'origine coréenne Byung-chul Han nous fait …
"Where can contemporary art go under global war and fascism?"--
Kathrine Taylor: Address Unknown (Paperback, 2001, Washington Square Press)
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, …
"Of all the 'liberation movements' of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate …
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his …
