The Opposite of Loneliness Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.As her famil ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more
Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor); David Bezmozgis (Contribution by); Thi Bui (Contribution by); Reyna Grande (Contribution by); Aleksandar Hemon (Contribution by); Vu Tran (Contribution by)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The SympathizerViet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the Internatio ...Show more
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the o ...Show more
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delve ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
Pataphysical Essays by Rene Daumal; Thomas Vosteen (translator)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry's posthumous novel, "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician," first appeared in 1911, and over the next 100 years, his pataphysical ...Show more
Suspended Passion - Interviews by Marguerite Duras; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: The\French List Ser.
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
Suspended Passion: Interviews by Marguerite Duras
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: SB-The French List
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
Writing by Marguerite Duras
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the dea ...Show more
Works and Days by Bernadette Mayer
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Part springtime journal ("why are there thorns?"), Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times' passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas Browne, "Go Away" welcome mats, books, floods ("ne ...Show more
Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker by Susan Howe
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series," Sorting Facts is Susan Howe s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout. An excerpt: Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to recor ...Show more