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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical context, allowing the readers to enjoy the book both as literature and as a guide to the cultural history...
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The AUDACIOUS WOMEN anthology highlights creative work that embraces the concept of women fully occupying their space, having agency, and trailblazing the roads for more powerful futures. Smart and celebratory, these works of poetry, fiction, plays, and creative non-fiction showcase work that makes us laugh, cry, and think deeply about the ways women come to the world, embracing women with three-dimensionality and diversity in literature. A blend...
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"We Make Writing Makes Us" greedy for the right words and the thrill of creating when we know we have done our best work. It epitomises the concept that when we express ourselves, we become ourselves.
For those of us now having escaped the shackles of our working lives, we are now able to be our own masters in achieving our goals in the third trimester of our lives. We may now go where our imagination takes us.
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"Sex & The City meets The Wall Street Journal....Juicy, smart, dramatic and insightful-an addictive read."
-Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
In The Secret Currency of Love, edited by Hilary Black, acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning women writers explore the fraught and powerful connections between love and money. As featured on the "Today Show"--with contributions by Karen...
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This extraordinary anthology brings together the finest works of storytelling from across the globe, showcasing the remarkable talents of renowned authors and emerging voices alike.
From the enchanting tales of love and loss to the gripping narratives of mystery and adventure, this collection spans genres and cultures, offering readers a kaleidoscope of emotions and experiences. Each story is a carefully crafted masterpiece, designed to transport...
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Una Visa Por Tus Sueños: Finessing the Dominican Dream" is a compelling anthology featuring the voices of first-generation Dominican-Americans. This collection of 25 essays explores the tension between cultural heritage and personal ambition. Each story offers a genuine look at identity, belonging, and the universal human experience, all through the lens of Dominican culture. Dive in to discover heartfelt narratives that inspire, resonate, and illuminate...
7) Larga herida
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"Larga Herida" de Artemisa Téllez, es un contratiempo. El no sistema de un tiempo que hubo sido. Un lapso. Entre el dolor y la espera, la arenilla de la reconciliación con una misma, doliente, caminando hacia la reconciliación. La eterna pregunta sobre el tiempo detenido que no es sino el "Mito del eterno retorno ". ¿Cómo se vuelve al amor primigenio si éste se ha evaporado? La pulsión poética de Artemisa echa raíces en una tierra aparentemente...
8) Nocturnals
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This spring 2019 edition of Bard College's literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs.
Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own stories, the stellar works collected here-including entries by Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others-address our myriad experiences...
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Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord.
The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers's "To the Measures Fall" is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical "The Sleep,"...
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This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa-many published here for the first time-delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of diaspora by drawing on cultural references as diverse as classical Indian texts, adaptations of Shakespeare and Homer, current events, and world music, film, and dance. Neilesh Bose provides historical...
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Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since...
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From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, and from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, these essays bring us, time and again, to the thorny intersection of personal experience and public discourse.
The Best American Essays 2017 includes entries by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Lawrence Jackson, Rachel Kushner, Alan Lightman, Bernard Farai Matambo, Wesley Morris, Heather Sellers, Andrea Stuart, and others....
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Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong-whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls-offers us a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today. "Real Women Write about Real Sex" in Sugar in My Bowl, as such marquee names as Gail Collins, Eve Ensler, Daphne Merken, Anne Roiphe, Liz Smith, Naomi Wolf, and Jennifer Weiner, to name but a few, join together to speak...
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The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.
In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form-a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we insert our 'I' (our eye) to search deeper into someone,...
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Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews, showcasing writers, performers, actors, musicians, painters, and architects. The founders, a group of New York City–based artists, wanted a public space for art-makers to talk to each other about their work without the interference of critics or journalists. Thirty years later comes this anthology: an addictively insightful collection of thirty-five...
18) Dear Intern
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Everyone makes mistakes-especially in their first job. Cringe and commiserate with the everyday missteps and epic workplace screwups in this collection of self-confessed blunders from disaster‑prone‑yet‑good‑intentioned interns finding their footing in professional settings.
All tenured professionals know that detours and mishaps are an essential rite of passage en route to a successful career-but that doesn't make them any less funny. This...
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"Articles Too Dangerous For Weak Minds" stands as a captivating and intellectually stimulating compilation, meticulously curated by the insightful editors Dakota Frandsen and Sara Larson on behalf of Bald and Bonkers Network LLC. This collection ventures into the uncharted territories of thought, delving into controversial and challenging topics that push the boundaries of conventional discourse. Each essay within the compilation is presented as the...
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The National Book Award—winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly).
As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of...
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