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ALFRED A. KNOPF
Spring 2010
Alfred A.Knopf
Index of Titles
Page
Page
59 Seconds, Richard Wiseman
145
Noah’s Compass, Anne Tyler
143
Bloodroot, Amy Greene
147
Occupied City, David Peace
160
Bone Fire, Mark Spragg
167
One More Story, Ingo Schulze
172
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart,
Mathias Malzieu*
Open, Andre Agassi
141
182
Claiming Ground, Laura Bell
171
Parrot and Olivier in America,
Peter Carey
179
Day out of Days, Sam Shepard
144
Director’s Cut, Arthur Japin
162
Poetry in Person, edited by
Alexander Neubauer
174
The Essential Engineer, Henry Petroski
161
The Publisher, Alan Brinkley
177
Faith, Interrupted, Eric Lax
184
Rat, Fernanda Eberstadt
170
Reality Hunger, David Shields
156
The Room and the Chair, Lorraine
Adams
152
The Routes of Man, Ted Conover
153
Safe from the Neighbors, Steve
Yarbrough
150
A Few Good Women, Evelyn M. Monahan
and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee*
163
For the Soul of France, Frederick Brown
The Godfather of Kathmandu,
John Burdett
146
149
If There Is Something to Desire,
Vera Pavlova
148
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
159
The Infinities, John Banville
157
Something Is Out There, Richard Bausch
158
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,
Bettye Collier-Thomas
154
The Storm, Margriet de Moor
168
Leo and His Circle, Annie Cohen-Solal
178
Talking About Detective Fiction,
P. D. James
142
The Living Fire, Edward Hirsch
176
The Third Rail, Michael Harvey
185
Losing Charlotte, Heather Clay
173
The Three Emperors, Miranda Carter
169
Making Haste from Babylon,
Nick Bunker
183
What Becomes, A. L. Kennedy
180
The Man from Beijing, Henning Mankell
155
Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon,
Dan Chiasson
164
The Man Who Ate His Boots,
Anthony Brandt
165
Winston’s War, Max Hastings
181
Wisdom, Stephen S. Hall
175
You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier
151
Mark Twain’s Other Woman,
Laura Trombley
138
166
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Index of Authors
Page
Page
Harvey, Michael, The Third Rail
185
Hastings, Max, Winston’s War
181
Hirsch, Edward, The Living Fire
176
James, P. D., Talking About Detective
Fiction
142
Japin, Arthur, Director’s Cut
162
Kennedy, A. L., What Becomes
180
Lanier, Jaron, You Are Not a Gadget
151
165
Lax, Eric, Faith, Interrupted
184
Brinkley, Alan, The Publisher
177
Malzieu, Mathias, The Boy with the
Cuckoo-Clock Heart
182
Brown, Frederick, For the Soul of France
146
Mankell, Henning, The Man from Beijing
155
Bunker, Nick, Making Haste from
Babylon
183
Monahan, Evelyn M. and Rosemary
Neidel-Greenlee, A Few Good Women
163
Burdett, John, The Godfather of
Kathmandu
149
Neubauer, Alexander, ed., Poetry in Person 174
Carey, Peter, Parrot and Olivier in
America
179
Pavlova, Vera, If There Is Something to
Desire
148
Carter, Miranda, The Three Emperors
169
Peace, David, Occupied City
160
Petroski, Henry, The Essential Engineer
161
Schulze, Ingo, One More Story
172
Shepard, Sam, Day out of Days
144
Shields, David, Reality Hunger
156
Spragg, Mark, Bone Fire
167
Trombley, Laura, Mark Twain’s Other
Woman
166
Tyler, Anne, Noah’s Compass
143
Wiseman, Richard, 59 Seconds
145
Yarbrough, Steve, Safe from the
Neighbors
150
Adams, Lorraine, The Room and
the Chair
152
Agassi, Andre, Open
141
Banville, John, The Infinities
157
Bausch, Richard, Something Is Out
There
158
Beauvoir, Simone de, The Second Sex
159
Bell, Laura, Claiming Ground
171
Brandt, Anthony, The Man Who Ate
His Boots
Chiasson, Dan, Where’s the Moon,
There’s the Moon
164
Clay, Heather, Losing Charlotte
173
Cohen-Solal, Annie, Leo and His Circle
178
Collier-Thomas, Bettye, Jesus, Jobs, and
Justice
154
Conover, Ted, The Routes of Man
153
De Moor, Margriet, The Storm
168
Eberstadt, Fernanda, Rat
170
Greene, Amy, Bloodroot
147
Hall, Stephen S., Wisdom
175
139
Andre Agassi
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Andre Agassi played tennis professionally from
1986 to 2006. Often ranked number one, he captured eight Grand Slam singles championships.
Founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, he has raised more than $85 million for the
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underprivileged children in Las Vegas, where he
lives with his wife, Stefanie Graf, and their two
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Anne Tyler
Noah’s Compass
A novel
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schoolteacher, forced to
retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final
phase of his life.
Liam Pennywell, who
set out to be a philosopher
and ended up teaching fifth
grade, never much liked the
job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him.
What does bother him is
that he has lost the memory
of what happened the first
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when he wakes up a day
later in the hospital is that
his head is sore and bandaged.
His effort to recover
the moments of his life
that have been stolen
from him leads him on an
unexpected detour. Above
all he needs someone who
can do the remembering
for him. Instead he gets—
well, something quite different.
We all know a Liam. In
fact, there may be a little
of Liam in each of us.
Which is why Anne
Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and
grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her eighteenth novel.
Her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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inside a Cracker Barrel
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sleeping with whores in
Tijuana . . . A Minnesota
family travels south for
a winter vacation but,
being caught up in the ordinary tyrannies of family
life, remains oblivious to
the beauty of the Yucatán
peninsula . . . A solitary
horse rancher muses on
Sitting Bull and Beckett
amid the stuff that inhabits his kitchen . . .
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films and received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination in
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59 Seconds
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everything it promises.
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fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help
you change your life in literally under a minute.
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“Think a little and change a lot.”
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Frederick Brown
For the Soul of France
Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
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n a perfect joining of subject and writer, cultural
historian Frederick Brown, author of acclaimed
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era of upheaval and uncertainty that helped to shape
the first half of the twentieth century.
Brown examines the events leading up to the twilight years of the nineteenth century when, defeated in
the Franco-Prussian war of 1870–71, France was
forced to cede the border states of Alsace and Lorraine. In the subsequent civil war, Napoleon III was
toppled, the Paris Commune was crushed, and a zealous nationalism gripped the republic, setting the stage
for the Dreyfus affair. The author describes how postwar France was rent by a bitter debate between those
who believed in science as the only way for the nation
to regain its stature on the world stage, and those who
believed in the singular ability of God to save their
country. And he makes clear that the conflicts that
began thirty years before Dreyfus became the festering points that led to France’s surrender to Hitler in
1940, and to Marshal Pétain, head of the collaborationist Vichy government, being heralded, at the time,
as France’s savior.
An essential book of French cultural history.
Frederick Brown is professor emeritus of French literature at
SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of Flaubert, a finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Zola, one of The
New York Times Book Review ten-best books of 1995. His articles have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Review
of Books, and Harper’s Magazine. He has been twice the recipient of both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He lives in New York City.
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Bloodroot
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the story of an incendiary
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Lamb, a wild young girl
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blue eyes who grows up on
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Myra fiercely and passes
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alike; the neighbor boy
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Amy Greene was born and raised in the foothills of East Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains, where she lives with her husband and
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Vera Pavlova
If There Is Something to Desire
One Hundred Poems
“I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards.”
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hundred poems in this book all have a salty immediacy, as if spoken by a woman who feels that, as
the title poem concludes, “If there was nothing to regret / there was nothing to desire.”
Pavlova writes about love (both sexual love and the
love that reaches beyond sex); about motherhood;
about the memories of childhood that continue to
feed us; about our lives as passionate souls abroad in
the world. Sensitively translated by her husband,
Steven Seymour, Pavlova’s poems are highly disciplined miniatures, exhorting us without hesitation:
“Enough painkilling, heal. / Enough cajoling, command.”
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work has been translated into fifteen languages
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New Yorker. The recipient of numerous awards,
Pavlova is one of the best selling poets in Russia,
where her Collected Poems is being prepared for
publication.
#42
I am in love, hence free to live
by heart, to improvise caresses.
A soul is light when full,
heavy when vacuous.
My soul is light. She is not afraid
to dance the agony alone,
for I was born wearing your shirt,
will come from the dead with that shirt on.
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The Godfather
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Army General Zinna for control of Bangkok’s
network of illegal enterprises. And though
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Steve Yarbrough
Safe from the Neighbors
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uke May teaches local history—his lifelong
obsession—at his old high school in Loring,
Mississippi. Having been mentored by his hometown newspaper’s publisher, a survivor of the civil
rights turmoil, he now passes these stories along to
students far too young to have experienced them.
But when a long-lost friend suddenly returns to
Loring, where years ago her family had been consumed by an act of spectacular violence, Luke begins
to realize that his connection with her runs deeper,
both personally and politically, than he ever imagined.
Just children in 1962, they had no sense of what was
happening when James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole
Miss provoked a bloody new battle in the old civil
war, much less its impact on their fathers’ ambiguous
friendship.
Once his daughters leave for Ole Miss, Luke’s investigation of this decades-old trauma spills over into
his own life. With his parents unwilling, or unable, to
help him unlock secrets whose existence he had never
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control—a gripping reminder that the past isn’t dead,
or even past.
Once again Steve Yarbrough powerfully evokes—
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but the grief of our own time.”
Born in Indianola, Mississippi, Steve Yarbrough is the author of
four previous novels and three collections of stories. A
PEN/Faulkner finalist, he has received the Mississippi Authors
Award, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Literary
Excellence Award, and an award from the Mississippi Institute of
Arts and Letters. He now teaches at Emerson College and lives
with his wife in Boston.
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Jaron Lanier
You Are Not a Gadget
A Manifesto
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how the Web has failed
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“the hive mind” over the
intelligence and desires of
individuals. He warns that
these designs are perilously close to becoming
inexorably “locked in” to
the fabric of the Web,
threatening to put our
sense of personal identity
at risk. Nevertheless, You
Are Not a Gadget is fundamentally an optimistic
book, and in discussions
that range from the origins of language to the
future of music, Lanier
presents a profound alternative vision of how digital culture can still evolve.
Brilliant and idiosyncratic, You Are Not a
Gadget is an impassioned defense of individuality and humanism by a man who understands the technology and the culture of the
Web better than anyone.
Jaron Lanier is the computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and
author who coined the term “virtual reality” to describe his
pioneering work in networked communities. His current appointments include Scholar at Large for Live Labs, Microsoft
Corporation, and Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence at UC
Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. He is the
recipient of an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey Institute
of Technology and of the Watson Award from Carnegie Mellon
University. He lives in San Francisco.
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Lorraine Adams
The Room and the Chair
A novel
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rom the award-winning author of Harbor
(“Captivating . . . a virtuoso act of the imagination” —The New York Times Book Review), a
major new novel about the human costs of power.
Moving from a cockpit over Afghanistan to a
newsroom in the American capital, from an Iranian
cemetery to a military intelligence office in suburban
Washington, The Room and the Chair explores a
world of entwined conflicts, and how narratives
about violence are told, twisted, hidden, or forgotten.
Here is a fine-drawn, empathetic portrait of the
often overlooked actors of America’s infinite global
war: the ridiculed night editor of a prestigious newspaper; an overburdened nuclear engineer; a female
fighter pilot; a religiously impassioned novice reporter; a sergeant major thrust into the follies and responsibilities of a secretive command. Their longings
and loyalties take us from forested city parks where
child whores set up business, to a Dubai hotel where
a desperate man tries to disappear, to the nighttime
corridors of Walter Reed Hospital and the snowthickened mountains of the Hindu Kush.
Bending the conventions of literary suspense to create a novel as intimate as it is muscular, The Room
and the Chair is a groundbreaking chronicle of
today’s dangerous world.
Lorraine Adams is the author of Harbor, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and
Guardian First Book Award, and was selected as a New York
Times Book Review Best Book, a Washington Post Notable Book,
and Entertainment Weekly’s Best Novel of the Year. She was
awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a
staff writer for The Washington Post for eleven years. A regular
contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Bookforum, she lives in New York City.
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Award winner: a hugely
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roads and their power to
change the world.
Metaphorically and literally, roads bind our
world, changing the landscape and the lives of those
who inhabit it. With his
marvelous eye for detail
and his contagious enthusiasm, Ted Conover explores six transformative
byways. In Peru, he examines the government’s attempt to build a highway
through the Andes, creating jobs but facilitating the
transport of endangered mahogany. In East
Africa, he revisits truckers whose travels have
been linked to the worldwide spread of AIDS.
In the West Bank, he traverses security check-
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points with both Palestinians and Israelis, discovering the injustices and
danger born by both sides.
He predicts how yearround accessibility will
affect the now-isolated Indian region of Ladakh; describes the exuberant and
terrifying upsurge in car
culture as highways proliferate across China; and
gives us an apocalyptic
but precise vision of
Lagos, Nigeria, where
poverty and pollution
erupt from the megacity’s
overcrowded freeways.
A spirited, urgent book
that reveals the costs
and benefits of being
connected—how, from ancient Rome to the
present, roads have played a crucial role in
human life, advancing civilization even as they
set it back.
Ted Conover is the author of several books including Newjack:
Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle
Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling Nowhere:
Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly,
The New Yorker, and National Geographic. Recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.
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Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
The History of African American Women and Religion
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Bettye Collier-Thomas is professor of history at
Temple University and a fellow at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is
the author of Daughters of Thunder: Black
Women Preachers and Their Sermons and the
editor (with V. P. Franklin) of Sisters in the
Struggle: African American Women in the Civil
Rights—Black Power Movement. She lives in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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his groundbreaking book begins with slavery
and gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the
centuries of American growth and change.
Collier-Thomas makes clear that while religion has
been a guiding force in the lives of most African
Americans, for black women it has been essential. As
co-creators of churches, black women were a central
factor in their development. Collier-Thomas explores
the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in
black churches as well as racism in mostly white denominations in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women’s conventions; and how, within
the church, men treated women as second-class citizens despite their importance to the very existence
and survival of the church itself.
African American churchwomen created national
organizations such as the National Association of
Colored Women and the National Council of Negro
Women, they confronted racism in white-led quasi
Christian groups such as the YWCA, and they
worked in male-dominated organizations such as the
NAACP and National Urban League, to demand civil
rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities, and to protest lynching, segregation, and discrimination.
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice restores black women to
their rightful place in American history, elucidating
both the quality and consequence of their faith in
themselves, their race, and their God.
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Henning Mankell
The Man from Beijing
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us an electrifying standalone thriller that takes
off into a sweeping international drama.
January 2006. In the
Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people
have been massacred. The
only clue is a red ribbon
found at the scene. Judge
Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked:
her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims. The police insist that
only a lunatic could have committed the murders. But when Birgitta discovers the diary
of another Andrén—a gang master on the
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American transcontinental
railway in the nineteenth
century—that describes
the cruel treatment of Chinese slave-workers, she
is determined to uncover
what she suspects is a more
complicated truth.
The investigation leads
to modern-day Beijing
and its highest echelons
of power, to Zimbabwe
and Mozambique. But
the narrative also takes
us back 150 years, into a
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Birgitta as she draws
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Hesjövallen murders.
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starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into
forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide.
He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.
Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson
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David Shields
Reality Hunger
A Manifesto
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resh from his acclaimed exploration of mortality
in the genre-defying, best-selling The Thing
About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, David
Shields has produced an open call for new literary
and other art forms to match the complexities of the
twenty-first century.
Shields’s manifesto is an ars poetica for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who,
living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking
ever larger chunks of “reality” into their work. The
questions Shields explores—the bending of form and
genre, the lure and blur of the real—play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this
“truthiness”: about literary license, quotation, and
appropriation in television, film, performance art,
rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels.
Drawing on myriad sources, Shields takes an audacious stance on issues that are being fought over now
and will be fought over far into the future. Converts
will see Reality Hunger as a call to arms; detractors
will view it as an occasion to defend the status quo. It
is certain to be one of the most controversial and
talked about books of the season.
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“A manifesto on behalf of a rising generation of writers and artists, a ‘Make It New’ for a new century, an
all-out assault on tired generic conventions.”
—J. M. Coetzee
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John Banville
The Infinities
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winning The Sea, John
Banville gives us a dazzling
new book that chronicles
both a human family and
a rather unholy gathering
of immortals.
On a languid midsummer’s day, old Adam
Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is
dying. His family gathers
at his bedside: his son,
young Adam, struggling
to maintain his marriage
to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old
daughter, Petra, filled with
voices and visions as she
waits for the inevitable;
their stepmother, Ursula, whose relations
with the Godley children are strained at best;
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in the father than the
daughter—who has arrived for an untimely visit.
And around the Godley
family hover the mischievous gods: among them,
Zeus, who has his eye
on young Adam’s wife,
and Hermes, our narrator:
“We too are petty and vindictive,” he tells us, “just
like you, when we are
put to it.” As old Adam’s
days on earth start to run
out, these unearthly beings
start to stir up trouble, to
sometimes unintended effect . . .
Blissfully inventive and
playful, rich in psychological insight and sensual
detail, The Infinities is at once a gloriously
earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible,
wonderful plight of being human.
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the recipient of the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award
for Fiction. He lives in Dublin.
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Something Is Out There
Stories
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Richard Bausch is the author of seven previous
volumes of short stories and eleven novels. He is
the recipient of the Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, a
Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. A past Chancellor
of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he lives in
Memphis, Tennessee, where he holds the Moss
Chair of Excellence in the Writer’s Workshop of
the University of Memphis.
rom the prizewinning novelist and worldrenowned short-story writer, the author of last
year’s universally acclaimed novel Peace (“A brilliant
one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat” —The New York Times), eleven
indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying
artistry of a master.
A brief adulterous tryst illuminates the fragility of
our most intimate relations. A husband confronts the
power of youth and the inexorable truths of old age.
A son sits by his mother’s bedside determined to give
her what she needs in her final days, even though
doing so involves breaking his own heart. A young
man returns in the face of crisis to the parents he once
rejected. A young woman, after a divorce, visits her
mother to find that the older woman has reconciled
with the young woman’s distant father. A wife with
two sons and a husband who has been shot must
weather a terrible snowstorm, and a storm of doubt
about the extent of his involvement in a crime.
Richard Bausch’s stories contend with transfixing
themes: marital and familial estrangement, ways of
trespass, the intractable mysteries and frights of daily
life in these times, the uncertainty of knowledge and
truth, the gulfs between friends and lovers, the frailty
of even the most abiding love—while underlining, all
along, the persistence of love, the obdurate forces that
connect us. His consummate skill, dark wit, and unfailing emotional generosity are on glorious display in
this fine new collection.
“Bausch’s stories are actually breathtaking in their
poignancy.” —Walker Percy
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Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
A New Translation of the Landmark Classic
by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
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ewly translated and
unabridged in English for the first time,
Simone de Beauvoir’s
masterwork weaves together history, philosophy,
economics, biology, and a
host of other disciplines to
analyze the Western notion of “woman” and to
postulate on the power of
sexuality.
Sixty years after its
initial publication, The
Second Sex is still as eyeopening and pertinent as
ever. This long-awaited
new translation pays particular attention to the
existentialist terms and
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French nuances that may
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in the first English edition,
and reinstates significant
portions of the “Myths”
and “History” chapters,
including Beauvoir’s accounts of more than
seventy historical female
figures that were originally cut due to length.
A groundbreaking exploration of woman as
“other,” The Second Sex
is a document that continues to provoke and inspire, continually and
dramatically revising the
way women talk and
think about themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. She died in 1986.
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, both American, are longtime residents of France and former teachers at the
Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris.
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A Life of Colette, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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Occupied City
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rom the author of Tokyo Year Zero (“Astounding,” Los Angeles Times Book Review), a fierce,
exquisitely dark novel that returns us to post–World
War II occupied Japan: a Rashômon-like retelling of
a murder (based on an actual event), its aftermath,
and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the
crime.
On January 26, 1948, a man arrives at a bank in
Tokyo, assigned by Occupation authorities, he explains, to treat everyone in the neighborhood who
might have been exposed to dysentery. Soon after ingesting the medicine he administers, twelve employees
are dead, the other four unconscious, and the man
has fled . . .
Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks from
the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one
of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an
American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized
survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turnedbusinessman, an “occult detective,” a Soviet soldier, a
well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens
the portrait of a city and a people making their way
out of a war-induced hell.
Occupied City immerses us in an extreme time and
place with its brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic,
mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious
work of fiction from a singular writer.
David Peace is also the author of the Red Riding Quartet, GB84,
and The Damned Utd. He was chosen as one of Granta’s Best
Young British Novelists in 2003 and has received the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize, the German Critics Award for Crime Fiction, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign
Novel.
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Henry Petroski
The Essential Engineer
Why Science Alone Will Not Solve
Our Global Problems
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rom the acclaimed author of The Pencil and
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timely and eye-opening
exploration of the ways in
which science and engineering must work together to address our
world’s most pressing issues, from climate change
and the prevention of natural disasters to the
search for renewable energy technologies.
Petroski makes clear
that while science may
identify problems, it takes
engineering to solve them;
that the inherent practicality of engineering—which
must take into account
structural, economic, and environmental factors
that science does not always consider—makes it
vital to answering our most urgent concerns. He
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debates surrounding the
critical challenges of our
time, pointing out that in
many cases the pertinent
technology exists and
waits only for engineers
to implement it. He
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of the accomplishments of
the past two centuries—
the steamship, the airplane, the moon landing,
among them—that were
the product of cooperation between science and
engineering, and argues
that the essential achievements of the twenty-first
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Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine.
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Arthur Japin
Director’s Cut
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tale of consuming love and artistic creation—
based on a true story—that reimagines the last
romance of the legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini.
In Director’s Cut we enter the mind of Snaporaz,
the lion of Italian cinema, as he slips into a coma in
his final days. Having always drawn inspiration from
the world of his dreams, he welcomes the chance to
take account of his life, and in particular his most recent love affair, with a beautiful but perilously highstrung actress called Gala. He tells the story:
Lured by the glamour of Rome, Gala and her
boyfriend Maxim, an actor as well, are hoping to
be discovered when they manage the impossible:
entrée to the studio of the great master. Almost at
once and despite an age difference of four decades,
a mutual enthrallment develops between Snaporaz
and Gala, leaving Maxim an anxious observer
of Gala’s physical and spiritual destruction, as she
falls down a rabbit hole of self-delusion that will
lead her both to prostitution and self-cloistering
in an abandoned church. Snaporaz’s intoxicatingly
baroque—Felliniesque—account of the affair slyly
challenges us again and again to ask what is dream
and what is reality, and to conclude that the difference
is irrelevant when such a genius immerses himself in
his most natural element: the imagination.
Arthur Japin, born in Haarlem in 1956, studied theater in Amsterdam and London and spent many years acting on stage,
screen, and television. His first novel, The Two Hearts of Kwasi
Boachi, appeared in thirteen languages and was made into an
opera. His third novel, In Lucia’s Eyes, was awarded the Libris
Literatuur Prijs and the De Inktaap. He lives in Utrecht.
Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
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Evelyn M. Monahan and
Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
A Few Good Women
America’s Military Women from World War I
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he never-before-told
story of the United
States women’s military
corps: the women who
fought for the right to defend their country by serving in our armed forces
with full military rank and
benefits—a fight that continues today for American
military women who
want to serve in combat
support positions and in
frontline combat units.
Using interviews, correspondence, and diaries, as
well as archival material,
Evelyn M. Monahan
and Rosemary NeidelGreenlee (coauthors of
And If I Perish: Frontline
U.S. Army Nurses in World War II) tell the remarkable story of America’s “few good
women” who today make up more than 15
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percent of the U.S. armed
forces and who serve
alongside men in almost
every capacity. Here are
the stories of the battles
these women fought in
order to march beside
their brothers; their tales
of courage and fortitude;
the indignities they’ve
endured; the injustices
they’ve overcome; the
blood they’ve shed; the
comrades they’ve lost; and
the challenges they still face
in the twenty-first century.
United States military
women have lived and
continue to live the history that has helped to
make and keep America
what it is. Now their stories have been brought
together in a riveting firsthand narrative, as inspiring as it is illuminating.
Evelyn M. Monahan, a retired psychologist, served in the
Women’s Army Corps from 1961 until 1967. She earned her
M.Ed. and Ph.D. at Georgia State University and her M.Div. in
theology and ethics at Emory University. She worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs from 1980 to 1996.
Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps
on active duty from 1962 until 1965 and on reserve duty between
1989 and 1991. She has a master’s degree in nursing from Emory
University and worked at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in
Atlanta from 1981 to 2002.
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Dan Chiasson
Where’s the Moon,
There’s the Moon
Poems
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Dan Chiasson was educated at Amherst College
and Harvard University. His essays on poetry
appear widely. The recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Whiting Writers’
Award, Chiasson teaches at Wellesley College
and lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
child’s game of “Where’s the moon? There’s the
moon!” is the shaping metaphor for this collection, in which adult matters of seeking and finding,
loss and recovery, anticipation and desire’s uncertain
rewards are examined.
Chiasson makes poignant use of objects and
nature’s givens as correlatives for our human struggles: “Being near me never made anyone a
needle,” he writes in “Thread,” and in the poem titled
“Tree,” “All day I waited to be blown; / then someone cut me down.” In the title sequence, a multipart
poem about fathers and sons, Chiasson describes the
ways the gift for being absent—the poet’s gift—is
passed from father to son, as he watches his own children sink into the enigmatic silences that mimic his
own, silences that he, in turn, connects with his own
father’s absence from his life.
Chiasson is a poet of great grief and love. In this
third book, his voice is more commanding than ever,
embracing the notion of how small—yet how rich
and significant—are our individual stories in time and
space.
It was hard for me, a hard night, when I entered art.
The tendons in my wrist are visible.
What will I do now I have made this fist?
To loosen it feels weird, anticlimactic—
a misuse, a misunderstanding, of fists.
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That’s how it was with me that night.
And so, mysteriously, I lost my sweetness.
Weird, to feel intended for violence,
when what I wanted was an hour of rest.
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March
Anthony Brandt
The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of
the Search for the Northwest Passage
T
he enthralling, often harrowing story of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century
British exploration.
Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the
first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure
and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes
with nothing left to eat but their companions’ remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of
this noble and foolhardy obsession, which originated
during the sixteenth century, bringing vividly to life
this record of courage and incompetence, privation
and endurance, heroics and tragedy. Along the way
he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascinating
characters: seamen and landlubbers, scientists and
politicians, skeptics and tireless believers.
The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history—a multifaceted portrait
of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly.
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Anthony Brandt is the author of two previous books, and the editor of the Adventure Classics series published by National Geographic Society Press. He is also the books editor at National
Geographic Adventure magazine and was previously the book
critic for Men’s Journal. His work has appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly, GQ, Esquire, among many other magazines. He lives
in Sag Harbor, New York.
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Laura Trombley
Mark Twain’s
Other Woman
The Hidden Story of His Final Years
A
groundbreaking
book about Mark
Twain’s final years, from
1900 to 1910, that lifts
the layers of accepted
truth about Twain’s life;
the result of extraordinary
detective work and original scholarship, told with
the use of never-beforepublished personal papers
from Twain’s longtime
secretary and companion.
Twain spent the bulk of
his last six years in the
company of his secretary,
Isabel Van Kleek Lyon,
who was slavishly devoted to him. Using
Lyon’s diaries, leading
Twain scholar Laura
Trombley tells the story of their profound
bond: how Twain delegated the management
of his schedule and finances to Lyon; how she
ran his household; nursed him during his ill-
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nesses; managed his increasingly unmanageable
daughters; listened attentively as he read to her
what he’d written each
day.
Trombley reconstructs
the events that caused the
dramatic breakup of their
relationship and describes
how Twain, in his very
last months, obsessed
with his former secretary,
conducted angry press
conferences denouncing
her; how he ranted in personal letters about the
ways in which she had
betrayed him; and how,
despite the inordinate attention he gave her before
his death, Isabel Lyon remained a friendless
ghost haunting the margins of Mark Twain’s
legacy . . . until now, with the publication of
this dazzling, revelatory book.
Laura Trombley was raised in Southern California and attended
Pepperdine University, where she earned a B.A. and M.A., and
the University of Southern California, where she earned a Ph.D.
in English. She is the president of Pitzer College in Claremont,
California, and is the author of Mark Twain in the Company of
Women. She lives in Claremont, California.
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Mark Spragg
Bone Fire
A novel
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shawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays, as the sheriff, Crane Carlson, is reminded
when he finds a teenager murdered in a meth lab. His
other troubles include a wife who’s going off the rails
with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the
disease that killed his grandfather.
Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts
among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife, and his only
child, and his long-absent sister has lately returned
home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die.
His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college
to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and
his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother
(Paul’s sister) is off marketing enlightenment.
What these characters have to contend with on a
daily basis is bracing enough, but as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and along with
harsh truths come moments of hilarity and surprise
and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about
the modern West than Mark Spragg, and Bone Fire
finds him at the very height of his powers.
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a
memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award,
and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, a
Rocky Mountain News Best Book of 2004. All three were topten Book Sense selections. He lives in Wyoming.
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Margriet de Moor
The Storm
A novel
O
n the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of
water, scooped up from the sea by hurricaneforce gales, swept into the Netherlands, demolishing
the dikes protecting the country’s southwestern
lands, wiping the entire region from the map. It was
the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in
three hundred years.
The morning of the storm, Armanda asks her sister,
Lidy, to take her place on a visit to her godchild in the
town of Zierikzee. In turn, Armanda will care for
Lidy’s two-year-old daughter and accompany Lidy’s
husband to a party. The sisters, both of them young
and beautiful, look so alike that no one may even notice. But what Armanda can’t know is that her little
comedy is a provocation to fate: Lidy is headed for
the center of the deadly storm.
Margriet de Moor interweaves the stories of these
two sisters, deftly alternating between the cataclysmic
storm and the long years of its grief-strewn aftermath.
While Lidy struggles to survive, surrounded by people she barely knows, Armanda must master the future, trying to live the life of her missing sister as if it
were her own.
A brilliant meshing of history and imagination, The
Storm is a powerfully dramatic and psychologically
gripping novel from one of Europe’s rising stars.
Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Margriet de Moor had a career
as a classical singer before becoming a novelist. Her first novel,
First Gray, Then White, Then Blue, was a sensational success
across Europe, winning her the AKO Literature Prize, for which
her second novel, The Virtuoso, was also nominated. She has
since published several other novels, including Duke of Egypt
and The Kreutzer Sonata. Her books have been translated into
twenty languages.
Translated by Carol Brown Janeway
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MARCH
Miranda Carter
The Three Emperors
Three Cousins, Three Empires,
and the Road to World War I
A
story of the selfdelusion of royalty:
three monarchs who were
also three first cousins—
Wilhelm II, the last kaiser
of Germany; George V of
Britain; and Nicholas II,
the last tsar of Russia—
and their mistaken belief,
on the very brink of
World War I, that their
family connection could
save Europe from itself.
In the years before the
war, Wilhelm, George, and
Nicholas corresponded
and wrote about each
other in their diaries. The
Three Emperors uses these
sources—a hidden history
of how Europe went from
an age of empire to a more democratic and
more brutal one—to tell the tragicomic story
of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world.
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From the kaiser’s
tantrums to the tsar’s indecisions to King George’s
stamp collection, Carter
makes clear how anachronistic the three emperors
were: marooned by history in positions out of
kilter with their time and
ill-equipped by education
and personality to deal
with the modern world.
She delineates the responsibility they bore for the
outbreak of the war, and
explores the possibility
that, had they been more
capable men, they might
have averted it.
A remarkable combination of royal biography and keenly analytical history that
is riveting, often comical, and ultimately
tragic.
Miranda Carter is the author of Anthony Blunt: His Lives, which
won the Orwell Prize for political writing and the Royal Society
of Literature W. H. Heinemann Award, and was chosen as one
of The New York Times Book Review’s seven best books of
2002. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
With 32 pages of photographs and 2 maps
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Fernanda Eberstadt
Rat
A novel
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stunning novel—both heart-rending and uplifting—about a child’s search for a father she has
never known.
Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, who lives with
her unmarried mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local
beauty, in a farmhouse compound with other singleparent families in the Pyrénées Orientales, a gorgeous
but forlorn Mediterranean no-man’s-land just north
of the Spanish Catalan border. Rat is the result of a
one-night encounter between Vanessa and Gillem, the
son of a London supermodel from the 1960s, who
used to spend summers in the area and whom Rat has
never spoken to or met. But when Vanessa’s current
boyfriend starts preying on Morgan, the orphaned
nine-year-old who is Rat’s adopted brother, she decides to take Morgan and run away to her father in
London. As the novel unfolds, the two children undertake a difficult journey to find the man who might
finally explain to Rat who she is and where she belongs.
Fernanda Eberstadt has written an enthralling
novel with a luminous sense of place—both physical
and emotional—and, at its core, a bold, engaging
young heroine for our times.
Fernanda Eberstadt is the author of four previous novels and one
book of nonfiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and
Vanity Fair. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
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Laura Bell
Claiming Ground
A Memoir
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“First, it is the language you notice:
phrases, whole passages composed with
the musical authority of psalms. Then
it is the evocation of place, Wyoming
rising from these pages as actual as a
wild perfume. But, start to finish, it is
her honesty that keeps you up in the
night, wondering at the frailty of what
it means to be human and glad and
brave and, at times, broken. Laura Bell’s
Claiming Ground is the finest memoir
I’ve read.”
—Mark Spragg
MARCH
n 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating
from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky
for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep
in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin. Inexorably drawn to
this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman
in a man’s world, she is perhaps the oddest member
of this strange community of drunks and eccentrics.
So begins her unabating search for a place to belong
and for the raw materials with which to create a
home and family of her own. Only through time and
distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her
to see the love she left behind.
By turns cattle hand, forest ranger, outfitter,
masseuse, wife, and mother, Bell recounts vividly her
struggle to find solid earth in which to put down
roots. Brimming with careful insight and written in a
spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenching
ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Wyoming
landscape and the peculiar sweetness of hard labor, to
finding oneself through solitude, to a life formed by
nature, and to redeeming oneself through love,
whether given or received.
Quietly profound and moving, astonishing in its
honesty, its deep familiarity with country rarely seen
so clearly, and in beauties all its own, Claiming
Ground is truly a singular memoir.
Laura Bell’s work has been published in several collections, and
from the Wyoming Arts Council she has received two literature
fellowships as well as the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award and
the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. She lives in
Cody, and since 2000 has worked for The Nature Conservancy
there.
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Ingo Schulze
One More Story
Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode
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literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung):
thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s
finest writers.
New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off
the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia,
his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989,
he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even
as it flourished apace. Nothing has the power to move
him now: his whole life lies under the shadow of Julia,
of the idea that things could have worked out differently. But as night draws on to day, the promised end
becomes an unexpected new beginning.
Ingo Schulze introduces us to characters as they
stray outside the confines of East Germany into other,
newer lives: into Egypt, where the betrayal of a lover
turns an innocent vacation into a nightmare; into Vienna, where life starts to mimic art; into Estonia,
where we meet a retired circus bear in an absurd (and
absurdly hilarious) dilemma—or as they simply stay
put, struggling to maintain their sense of themselves
as the world around them changes.
Along with these tragicomic tales are some of the
most beautiful love stories ever to feature cell phones.
And throughout, Schulze’s masterfully controlled
plain style conceals an understated, but finally breathtaking, intricacy.
Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962 and studied classical
philology at the University of Jena. His first book, 33 Moments
of Happiness, won the prestigious Alfred Döblin Prize and the
Ernst Willner Prize for Literature. In 2007 he was awarded both
the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Thuringia Literature Prize.
He is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. He lives in Berlin.
Translated by John E. Woods
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Heather Clay
Losing Charlotte
A novel
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hat does it mean to honor the memory of
someone you loved but may have never fully
known? Heather Clay’s riveting debut novel, about
the overlapping lives of two starkly different sisters,
will invite comparisons to Sue Miller, Jane Hamilton,
and Elizabeth Strout.
Born and raised on their parents’ lush Kentucky
horse farm, Charlotte and Knox Bolling grew up intimately connected; yet their bond frayed as one of
them sought to rebel within their close family. When
Charlotte moves north to New York and marries
Bruce, leaving her sister firmly rooted on home soil,
the two women seem to stand on opposite sides of a
geographic and ever-widening emotional divide. But
their fates are forever intertwined when Charlotte dies
giving birth to twin boys, and Knox steps into her sister’s vanished life for an interim to help care for them.
For Knox and Bruce grief is initially subsumed by exhaustion and duty as they plow through their daily
rounds. The crucible of their devastating weeks together is the backdrop against which these survivors,
all but strangers to each other, will be tested in unforeseen ways and grapple with a deeper understanding
of the woman they both loved.
Lyrical, haunting, and psychologically acute, Losing Charlotte marks the emergence of an electrifying
new storyteller.
Heather Clay is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia
University’s School of the Arts. She has published short fiction in
The New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and written for Parenting
magazine. She lives in New York City with her husband and their
two daughters. This is her first novel.
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Poetry in Person
Twenty-five Years of Conversations
with America’s Poets
Edited by Alexander Neubauer
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remarkable collection of newly discovered conversations with poets, taped in the classroom of
the legendary New School teacher Pearl London.
London invited poets to bring their drafts to class,
to discuss their work in progress and the details of vision and revision that brought a poem to its final version. “The shaping spirit of the imagination is what it
is all about,” she told students. From Maxine Kumin
in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Nobel
laureate Derek Walcott and U.S. poet laureates Louise
Glück and Charles Simic, the book covers an extraordinary range of poets and their concerns. With James
Merrill, London discusses autobiography and subterfuge; with Galway Kinnell, his influential notion
that the new nature poem must include the city and
not exclude man; with June Jordan, the question of
political poetry and its uses. The conversations are intimate, funny, irreverent, and deeply revealing. Many
of the drafts under discussion—Robert Hass’s “Meditation at Lagunitas,” Edward Hirsch’s “Wild Gratitude,” Robert Pinsky’s “The Want Bone”—turned
out to be seminal works in the poets’ careers.
There has never been a gathering like that in Poetry
in Person, which brings us a wealth of understanding
and unparalleled access to poets and their drafts, unraveling how a great poem is actually made.
Alexander Neubauer is the author of two previous works of nonfiction, Conversations on Writing Fiction: Interviews with Thirteen Distinguished Teachers of Fiction Writing in America and the
acclaimed Nature’s Thumbprint: the New Genetics of Personality.
His book reviews and essays have appeared in Time Out New
York, Poets & Writers, and other periodicals. For many years he
taught fiction writing at the New School in New York City. Born
and raised in Manhattan, he now lives in Cornwall, Connecticut.
With 22 photographs and 35 poetry drafts in text
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Stephen S. Hall
Wisdom
From Philosophy to Neuroscience
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fascinating investigation into one of our most
coveted and cherished ideals—and the efforts of
modern science to penetrate its mysterious nature.
Everyone aspires to wisdom, and we can recognize
people who possess it, but defining it is more problematic. Now—traversing philosophy, theology, and neurobiology—award-winning science writer Stephen S.
Hall gives us a historical exploration of this ancient
virtue: how the notion of wisdom emerged in Greece,
China, India, and the Middle East during the fifth century B.C.E.; how it became the province of philosophy
and religion; and how in the revelatory work of the
last fifty years, science has taken the search for wisdom
into the human brain.
Relying on the latest research, Hall describes the
neural mechanisms that have been pinpointed in
the process of prudent decision making; the conflict between the feeling and thinking parts of the
brain; the biology of compassion and social justice;
the behavioral impact of adversity and uncertainty;
and how we learn to strategize about future
choices and future selves. His examination of
these new insights not only allows us to reevaluate
some of the earliest paradigms of wisdom—King
Solomon, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus—but also
makes clear that despite the most powerful efforts
of modern science, the essence of wisdom remains
a tantalizing mystery.
For twenty-five years, Stephen S. Hall has written about the intersection of science and society in books, magazine articles, and
essays. He is the author, most recently, of Size Matters: How
Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys—and
the Men They Become. He has received numerous awards, including the Science in Society Award in 2004 from the National
Association of Science Writers. Hall lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Edward Hirsch
The Living Fire
New and Selected Poems
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Edward Hirsch is the author of seven previous
collections of poetry and four prose books,
among them How to Read a Poem, a national
best seller. His numerous awards include the
National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. A longtime teacher in the
Creative Writing Program at the University of
Houston, he is now president of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in
New York City.
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deeply impressive gathering of more than one
hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild
gratitude” in poetry.
From poems chronicling his insomnia (“the bluerimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where
we meet the dead”) to his sustained human engagement with art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper
and Paul Celan, love poems in the voices of Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein, a meditation on two suitcases of children’s drawings that came out of the
Terezin concentration camp) to the lacerating selfexaminations of his more recent work, Edward
Hirsch is a poet of stunning range and quality. Repeatedly confronting the darkness and his own sense
of godlessness, he also struggles with the unlikely
presence of the divine, the power of art to redeem
human transience, and the complexity of relationships. Grieving for the losses occasioned by our mortality, Hirsch’s ultimate impulse as a poet is to
praise—to wreath himself, as he writes, in “the living
fire” that burns with a ferocious intensity.
This collection celebrates the work of one of the
most passionate and significant poets of our time.
Branch Library
I wish I could find that skinny, long-beaked boy
who perched in the branches of the old branch library.
He spent the Sabbath flying between the wobbly stacks
and the flimsy wooden tables on the second floor,
pecking at nuts, nesting in broken spines, scratching
notes under his own corner patch of sky.
I’d give anything to find that birdy boy again
bursting out into the dusky blue afternoon
with his satchel of scrawls and scribbles,
radiating heat, singing with joy.
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Alan Brinkley
The Publisher
Henry Luce and His American Century
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s the founder of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines, Henry Luce changed the way we consume the news and understand the world around us.
Now acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a
riveting portrait of this brilliant, complicated man
who built one of the greatest media empires of the
twentieth century.
The son of missionaries, Luce craved both power
and virtue from a young age. After he helped launch
Time in 1923, he was catapulted into a world of fame,
fortune, and influence, and even more so in 1936 after
the spectacular beginning of Life, which would become the most popular magazine of its time. Brinkley
examines Luce’s prescient belief that members of the
increasingly busy middle class needed a fast, reliable
way to understand a world that was changing with almost unfathomable speed. He shows us how Luce
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Leo and His Circle
The Life of Leo Castelli
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Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis
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French Revolution. Parrot
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They are born on different
sides of history, but their
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York magazine’s top-ten books of the year—the internationally revered A. L. Kennedy returns with a
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No one captures the spirit of our times like A. L.
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spiritual malaise. In the title story, a man abandons his
indifferent wife and wanders into a small-town movie
theater where he finds himself just as invisible as he
was at home. In the masterfully comic “Saturday
Teatime,” a woman trying to relax in a flotation tank
is hijacked by memories of her past. In “Whole Family with Young Children Devastated,” a woman, inadvertently drawn into a stranger’s marital dysfunction,
meditates on the failings of modern life as seen
through late-night television and early-morning walks.
Devastating and funny, intimate and profound, the
stories in What Becomes are further proof that
Kennedy is one of the most dazzling and inventive
writers of her generation.
A. L. Kennedy has published six novels, two books of nonfiction,
and three previous collections of short stories. She has twice been
selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and has
won a number of prizes including the Costa Book of the Year
Award (2007), the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore
Award, and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives
in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at the
University of St. Andrews.
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Mathias Malzieu
The Boy with
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of Dr. Madeleine—witch doctor, midwife, protector
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As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that
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But it’s not only Jack’s heart that’s at risk, it’s his very
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in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.
Now begins a wild journey, of escape and pursuit,
from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acacia’s home in
Andalusia, where Jack will finally learn the great joys,
and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully
formed heart.
Mathias Malzieu is the lead singer of the French rock band
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Making Haste
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The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
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xenophobic politicians,
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the Financial Times. He attended King’s College, Cambridge, and
Columbia University. He now lives in the shadow of Lincoln
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A Spiritual Journey
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In a candid and rigorous analysis of his belief, Eric
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the arc of Packard’s life—he becomes a priest, then
Episcopal Bishop to the Armed Forces—while recounting how his own growing religious doubts led
to a loss of faith and his subsequent, still ongoing desire to recapture it.
Eric Lax is the author of Conversations with Woody Allen, On
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West, and The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat, and coauthor (with A.
M. Sperber) of Bogart. His biography Woody Allen was a New
York Times best seller. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los
Angeles Times. An officer of International PEN, he lives with his
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link to his own past, to a
crime he witnessed as a
child, and to the consequences it had on his
relationship with his
father, a subject Kelly
would prefer to leave
unexamined. But when
his girlfriend—the gorgeous Chicago judge
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choice but to find the
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own stormy past.
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