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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
Hailed by the New York Times as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Beloved by readers of nearly all ages, he is perhaps the most popular literary novelist in translation - and he remains so today, a decade after the publication of his final novel. In addition to the first-ever English translation of Marquez's last interview, this unprecedented volume includes his first interview, conducted while he was in...
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(P/B) AT THE BAY
A modernist master of cool precision and extraordinary delicacy, Mansfield wrote about family life with a sharp radicalism, and At the Bay - previously unavailable in a standalone edition - is one of her greatest works. Told in thirteen parts, At the Bay unspools to capture a single summer's day in the life of a single family. Beginning early in the morning and ending at dusk, At the Bay captures both the Burnell family's intricate web of relatives and friends and the dreamy, unassuming natural beauty of Crescent Bay. Haunting but ever und...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., whose insistence on equality and peace defined the Civil Rights Movement and forever changed the course of American history. This collection ranges from an early 1961 interview in which King describes his reasons for joining the ministry (afte...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
A hilarious and revealing look at one of America's most beloved screenwriters. Packed with her characteristic wit, wisdom, and charm, this collection of interviews with Nora Ephron celebrates a treasured voice in American film and letters. Ranging from her days as a writer for Esquire and New York - well before When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle catapulted her to stardom - to her very last interview, these conversations shine a spotlight on the life and work of a dazzling writer. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years - including his final interview - Lou Reed oscillates between losing patience with his interviewers (he was famous for walking out on them) and sharing profound observations on the human experience, especially as he reflects on poetry and novels, the joy of live performances, and the power of sound. In conversation with legendary rock critics and authors he respected, Reed's interviews are as pithy and brilliant as the man himself. LOU REED was born in Brooklyn in 1942, and ...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
The massive, world-wide outpouring of grief at the death of David Bowie notably focused on not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same - the same as other trending artists, or even the same as himself. In this remarkable collection, Bowie reveals the fierce intellectualism, artistry, and humor behind it all. From his very first interview - as a teenager on the BBC, before he was even a musician - to his last, Bowie takes on the most probing questions, candidly discussing his sexuality, his drug u...
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(H/B) THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
Adventures in Wonderland is perhaps Lewis Carroll's most famous literary work. It has been adapted countless times in countless ways, from the recent film by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp, to the famous Disney cartoon, Alice in Wonderland, from 1951. While Alice certainly deserves the attention, she has overshadowed some of Carroll's other classic works. Now, The Hunting of the Snark, one of Carroll's most beloved and linguistically playful poems, comes to life in this wickedly inventive new edition. Perfectly suited to the modern form o...
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(P/B) THE DEAD
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband--closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life. Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which h...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
"There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise."(Hannah Arendt) In these interviews - including her final interview given in October 1973, in the midst of Watergate and the Yom Kippur War - Hannah Arendt discusses politics, war, protest movements, the Eichmann trial, Jewish identity, and language with the incisiveness and courage that always set her apart. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FIASCO
Translated into English at last,Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling the epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Fiasco, as Imre Kertesz himself has said, "is fiction founded on reality" - a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagon...
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(P/B) MAY DAY
Although F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, his little-known novella May Day is unique in that it is the most raw, direct political commentary he ever wrote, and one of the most desperate works in his oeuvre. It is a tale of the brutalities of the American class system - of privileged college boys, soldiers returned from a bloody war, and a group of intellectual leftwing journalists, all coming into confrontation in the heart of New york City on May Day...
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(H/B) THE SCIENCE DELUSION
The so-called new atheists, most famously Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, made a splash in the new millennium. They told the evangelical and the liberal believer that they must give up religion and submit to science. More recently, neuroscientists and their fans in the media have delivered a variation on this message: the mapping of the human brain will soon be completed, and we will know what we are and how we should act. Their faith is that the scientific method provides the best understanding not only of the physical world but...
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(P/B) AMPLIFIED
Sixteen original short stories by some of the most compelling songwriters performing today... With original contributions from Mary Gauthier, Chris Smither, Maria McKee, Patty Larkin, Jim White, and Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family, Amplified showcases artists working in the short story format, many for the first time. Whether it's Mary Gauthier's haunting story of a girl caught between her warring parents, Rennie Spark's reinvention of the fairy tale, a creepy yet beautifully drawn graphic story by Zak Sally or Cam King's wildly funny...
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(P/B) SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL
Set mostly in Manhattan - although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida - this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as "A shoplifting book about vague relationships," "2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues," and "An ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad." From VIP rooms in "hip" New York City clubs to central ...
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(H/B) DRUNK
Wise-guy lexicographer Paul Dickson, a consulting editor at Merriam-Webster, has long held the record for collecting the «Most Synonyms» for any term in the English language. He made the Guinness Book of World Records with 2,231 terms meaning «drunk» - beating out no less than Benjamin Franklin, who published his own list (The Drinker’s Dictionary) in 1736. But records are made to be broken. Enter Drunk, wherein Dickson breaks his own record by a mile with 2,964 terms for tipsy: blitzed, roasted, on the sauce, whazood, whiskey frisky, and ...
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(H/B) DEBT
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter system - to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that 5,000 years ago, during the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems. It is in this era, Graeber shows, that we also first encounter a...
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(H/B) STRANGE STARS
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when the sci-fi world met the rock 'n' roll world of the 1970s As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution. In Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural for...
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