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No Bottom
Cultural Writing. NO BOTTOM informally tracks the life and letters of American icon and world-revered author Barry Lopez, whose literature of hope reminds readers "the way we take care of ourselves is by taking care of each other." This nonfiction book is a primer for newcomers to Lopez's work, a haven for aficionados and a baedeker for academicians. It includes an original interview and a provocative inquiry into Barry Lopez's six short story books. These portals provide grounding for new arrivals to Lopez's insatiable Trickster wit and yield reader-friendly end notes for academicians. "This book shows once again why many of us think of Barry Lopez as a national treasure"--Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift and Trickster Makes This World.
The Essential College
Cultural Writing. Memoir. THE ESSENTIAL COLLEGE, by Bruce Haywood is at once an affectionate memoir, an eloquent sermon, and an incisive lament on the larger question of liberal education. Haywood, who spent twenty-six years at Kenyon College, half of them as provost, provides a portrait of a small and sociable intellectual community that saved itself from financial ruin by expanding and by embracing coeducation. "Liberal education is vital to the future of the Republic. The essential college, its future now threatened, has inspired many generations of Americans to seek a purposeful life, rewarding to themselves and to their society."
But that Didn't Happen to You
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. With ecollections and inventions that figure memory as a deeply human element in our shaped and shared world, BUT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN TO YOU is a lively, smart, and important memoir.
About That Life
Why write? Why ask a reader to give their time and attention to your words? How can writing be more than narcissism and self-aggrandizement? These questions were ones that the writer and naturalist Barry Lopez asked at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in the summer of 2000, and they are questions at the heart of About That Life, a meditation on matters of living, making, and seeking. While Lopez is best known for such works of nonfiction as the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams, Matthew Cheney brings our attention to the many works of short fiction that Lopez published throughout his life, demonstrating how they fit within Lopez’s sense of ethical aesthetics. That sense is then...
The Perfect Bite
What is the perfect bite? When I cook or eat, I look for a balance of flavor in a dish, or in a combination of foods. It might combine all of the aspects together—sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, and sometimes pungent or aromatic. “The perfect bite” is how I describe profound flavor—a balance of tastes on the palate—many of these are traditional dishes or family comfort foods. These might include herbs or spices, which add flavor. I am passionate about this approach to cooking and eating. I grow many of my own vegetables, herbs and greens, buy locally, eat seasonally and organically—this is the way that I like to eat. Anyone who likes to eat good food will appreciate this book ...
Shiraz
Fiction. This vivid novel depicts a group of young Americans in mid-1970's Iran, at the apex of the Shah's reign-a decisive turning point for Iran and for the U.S. in the Middle East. SHIRAZ reveals cracks and shadows in that time that have since deepened and widened, providing a vivid back story to present disasters. SHIRAZ is a powerful book-evocative and unsettling. Beyond possessing a compelling narrative, this novel offers a critical look at America's venture into the Middle East. "It's often been said," reads the cover, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." Shiraz is Robert Hamburger's sixth book. Among his early works, two were finalists for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award & The Western Writers' Prize for Biography; one book was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and another won him a New York Foundation of the Arts Award in Creative Nonfiction. Hamburger has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Paris and in India and Morocco, and has had several residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at the Ossabaw Island Project. He has been the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in New York City.
Flowering Bruno
An extraordinary meditation upon human and animal communication, and the world we share. --xoxox press.
Lucan and Flavian Epic
Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all been the subject of a remarkable increase in scholarly attention and appreciation. Lucan and Flavian epic characterizes and historicizes that moment, showing how the qualities of the poems and the histories of their receptions have brought about the kind of analysis and attention they are now receiving. Serving both experienced scholars of the poems and students interested in them for the first time, this book offers a new perspective on current and future directions in scholarship.
My Luck
My Luck is a memoir of Anne Meyer, who fled the Nazis in WWII and came to discover a new life in America after the war.
