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"An observant, strange, and startlingly funny collection of short stories"--
Short stories.
Tells the story of a young man's education in the two oldest human passions, love and money. This title charts the swift rise of the Clark brothers, Bobby Clark and Jim Clark, and tallies the cost of their success on everyone around them, especially on the woman who becomes a lover to both men.
Edited by Jason Fulford, Leanne Shapton, Paul Maliszewski, Matt Singer.
A provocative and unsettling look at the nature of love and deception Is it possible to love well without lying? At least since Socrates's discourse on love in Plato's Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth—about ourselves and the ones we love. But in the practical experience of erotic love—and perhaps especially in marriage—we find that love and lies often work hand in hand, and that it may be difficult to sustain long-term romantic love without deception, both of oneself and of others. Drawing on contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, his own personal experience, and such famed and diverse writers on love as Shakespeare, St...
This is the second novel from Clancy Martin. FSG's How to Sell was the first.
J & L Books' acclaimed J & L Illustrated series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. Shout magazine wrote of the first volume, published in 2002: "This impressive collection of illustrations and fiction makes sense of the world like good liquor should." Edited by writer Paul Maliszewski (author of Prayer and Parable and Fakers), this third volume of J & L Illustrated is comprised of 13 short stories by authors Amie Barrodale, Scott Bradfield, Stephen Dixon, Steve Featherstone, William H. Gass, Michael Martone, Joseph McElroy, Elizabeth Miller, Robert Nedelkoff, Hasanthikia Sirisena, Steve Stern, Mike Topp and Xiaoda Xiao. The Paris-based artist Shoboshobo provides accompanying drawings.
An intense, elegiac portrait of young lovers as they battle personal afflictions, toy with veganarchism, and traverse the American countryside.
Nathan has found the Philosopher's Stone in over-the-counter cough medicine. The world seen through eyes abruptly free of depression may hold the occult quest he has dreamed of, but it could just be madness.
"Designed for undergraduate, graduate, and executive business ethics courses, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader demonstrates that business ethics is primarily about the ethics of individuals. With a unique focus on the personal dimension of ethics, it challenges students to consider the relationship between the ways in which people do business and the kind of lives they want to live. It features 105 brief articles and 70 real-life case studies and poses study questions at the end of each reading and chapter. In addition, a chapter on leadership explores the relationship between leadership and ethical behavior in business"--