The story has two different styles, there is the main story, then there are pages written in italics. The italic pages are from an anonymous person. I liked this switch between the two styles, it gets the old brain cells clicking and whirring trying to workout the connection between the t...
In The Writer's Life, Australian novelist Ella Baxter elaborates on her passion for Chris Kraus's novel I Love Dick and the earth-shattering effect Yoko Ono's Grapefruit had on her. She also breaks open "a perfect sentence" written by Amy Bloom and finds "a true master" at work. --...
"This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influences and how they became involved in poetry. My main objective is to present the spirit of a brief era which, in retrospect, was exceptional in its...
It’s written in a fragmented, choppy style, leaping from one tale to the next, in which his father’s stint as a slave laborer in a Japanese camp leads to the dropping of the atom bomb in Hiroshima which leads to HG Wells affair with Rebecca West which leads to the Hungarian scientist...
It’s literary fiction and a bit of magic realism in a blender. The good? Very well written and I feel like it takes a sledgehammer to a lot of the sexist assumptions about Shakespeare’s marriage. His wife was older than him and pregnant when they married, so clearly she was some ...
“days of pastiche are over”, and then informs us that she’s going to write autofiction titled “The fat girl in history.” Australians will know that Peter Carey has written a short story, “The fat man in history”, and that his debut collection named for this story started his ...
If they were all written in books, I don't suppose there would be room enough in the whole world for all the books. English Revised VersionAnd there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would ...
Written by Schwartz, author of Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design, who is an audio design expert and passionate about analog music, this book includes 300 illustrations from the world of turntables, from affordable to high-end, and everything in between. An essential addition to th...
$ 120.00 Written in German. Present here are the volumes for 1965, 1980-1983, 1986, and 1990, as well as the 1975-1978 editions of "Die fünfzig Bücher 1975" (etc.), which is presumably part of the same series, because it is produced by the same publishers and is a ...
Written in a warm and engaging way that reflects her personality , Caroline tells stories of growing chillies from seed in her greenhouse, berating the thieving blackbirds in her fruit cage, and swimming in her pond singing to dragon flies and flag irises. Over the years, she has come to ...