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Resipio
Resipio: tang, tinge, savour.
These books bring to mind a quote from Deborah Levy, 'The writing you are reading now is made from the cost of living.'
Carefully savour this selection: read, rinse and repeat.
Unquiet by Linn Ullman ( Ullmann )
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childho ...Show more
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky; Jackie Smith (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A dazzling cabinet of curiosities from one of Europe's most acclaimed and inventive writers. Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully w ...Show more
Insomniac City : New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Fr ...Show more
Three O'Clock in the Morning by CAROFIGLIO GIANRICO
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Antonio is on the cusp of adulthood, trying to work out who to be and what to do. His father, once a brilliant mathematician, hasn't figured much in his son's life since the divorce from Antonio's mother, a beautiful and elusive woman. A diagnosis of epilepsy and hope for a cure takes father and son to ...Show more
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? ...Show more
Angels and Saints - With a Guide to the Illustrations by Mary Wellesley by Eliot Weinberger; Anon (Notes by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger's lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels and Saints are the glorious illuminated grid ...Show more
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin . . . A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereThink of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book ...Show more
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is ...Show more
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that time. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel abo ...Show more
For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existentia ...Show more
