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Open Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Open Me

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-18
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  • Publisher: Grove Press

A political and erotically-charged debut that follows a young American woman's transformative journey during one pivotal summer abroad hailed by Viet Thanh Nguyen as "unflinching in its portrayal of sex, desire, racism, and the excitement and confusion of youth."

Hold-Outs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Hold-Outs

This book examines the evolution of contemporary American poetry in Los Angeles, California.

Wild Nights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Wild Nights

Soul-stirring collection of timeless poetry that appeals to the heart features five legendary poets from ancient to modern eras: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Includes illustrations by Claire Whitmore.

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a...

Out There
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Out There

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-04-05
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

'Extraordinary . . . Folk is a dazzling talent' Karen Joy Fowler 'Wonderfully weird' Daily Mail A woman uses dating apps to find a partner, despite the threat posed by 'blots', artificial men more interested in stealing data than dating. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed. A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide with whom she wants to spend eternity. Haunting and darkly inventive, the stories in Out There deftly combine science fiction and horror to uncover an unforgettable vision of the absurdity of life in the digital age. 'The literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury penning episodes of Black Mirror' Chang-Rae Lee, author of Native Speaker

Cognitive Rehabilitation for Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Cognitive Rehabilitation for Pediatric Neurological Disorders

A professional guide to evidence-based pediatric cognitive rehabilitation in neurological disorders with practical intervention guidance.

Golden State 2017
  • Language: en

Golden State 2017

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A kaleidoscopic portrait of life in California -- our most diverse California collection yet. Edited by Lisa Locascio, recent fiction and nonfiction by major and emerging authors provide a vivid take from north to south, from the coast to the central valley to the Sierra.

Hard Mouth
  • Language: en

Hard Mouth

"Playfully, poetically unstable . . . What compels a woman to turn to the wilderness? What brings one, after a decade of caregiving, to exchange a terminal parent’s final vigil for the company of strangers? Goldblatt poses these questions with great assurance." —Lisa Locascio, The New York Times Book Review Denny works nights as a tech in a labyrinthine facility outside of D.C., readying fruit flies for experimentation. Her life’s routine is straightforward, limited. But when her father announces that he won’t be treating his recurrent, terminal cancer, she responds by quietly dismantling her life. She constructs in its place the fantasy of perfect detachment. Unsure whether her impu...

California Prose Directory
  • Language: en

California Prose Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In these twenty short stories and sixteen essays, established and emerging authors speak to California's myriad joys and juxtapositions. An inspiring collection of new writing about life in the Golden State.

Let Virtue be Your Guide
  • Language: en

Let Virtue be Your Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This thesis insists upon the continued relevance - and urgency - of the conversation surrounding femininity as a construct, and asserts that women themselves have a responsibility to recognize those pernicious definitions of virtue that have long preoccupied us, and relinquish them for good.